Origin Grill & Bar | Wallpaper*

The main room at Origin Grill & Bar, Singapore featuring wood flooring, pendant lights, reddish brown and blue wooden seating and square wooden tables with tableware. The room design features multiple arches

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last updated 7 October 2022

Since it opened in 1971, Singapore’s Shangri-la Hotel has been something of a local landmark both for its soaring marbled lobby dripping with chandeliers, and its always impeccable collection of restaurants.The latest to join its stable occupies the ground floor spot vacated by the much loved Nadaman.

Created by design studio A Work of Substance as a homage to Singapore’s past as an important entrepôt, the space unfolds as a series of set-pieces. Just off the bijou coppery-arched foyer is a capacious bar – a moody blue cavern framed by velvet curtains and fuelled by a cocktail menu spiked with jackfruit marmalade, torch ginger flowers, and bamboo and osthmanthus fortified wine.

In the main room – furnished like an old-fashioned train station platform with hand-stitched Tripolina leather chairs and globe lamps – executive chef Heidi Flanagan works up a lip-smacking seasonal grill of snow-aged Niigata wagyu, Fremantle octopus and Lombok lobsters on the charcoal and wood oven.

Alternative view of the main room at Origin Grill &amp; Bar, Singapore featuring wood flooring, pendant lights, reddish brown and blue wooden seating, wooden tables with tableware and a view of the trees outside through the windows. The room design features multiple arches

View of a row of tables with tableware and seating at Origin Grill &amp; Bar, Singapore. There are also two gold lights, blue curtains, wood flooring and a window

Interior view of the bar and seating area at Origin Grill &amp; Bar, Singapore featuring dark blue walls, brown, blue and wicker seating and shelves behind the bar with multiple bottles of drinks. The room design features multiple arches

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22 Orange Grove Road

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Daven Wu is the Singapore Editor at Wallpaper*. A former corporate lawyer, he has been covering Singapore and the neighbouring South-East Asian region since 1999, writing extensively about architecture, design, and travel for both the magazine and website. He is also the City Editor for the Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guide to Singapore.