The 5 Best Halal Restaurants in Singapore

Written by Sarah Ong | June 26, 2024

Image: Sofra Turkish Café & Restaurant

If your palate favours Western cuisine, Badoque Café is your destination. Want a taste of Thai or Indonesian dishes, Bumbu Restaurant has the best of these cuisines on offer. For those who miss the delicious hawker foods in Penang, the extensive buffet line at Penang Place Restaurant will give you chance to sample a bit of everything again. Visit Hajah Maimunah Restaurant, you will know that you cannot resist the lure of kampung style Malay foods. And people in mood for some exotic flavours will get excited with the dazzling selection of Turkish fare at Sofra Turkish Café & Restaurant.

Now you can start your adventure.

1. Badoque Café at Simpang Bedok

Image: Badoque Café

Address

298 Bedok Rd, Simpang Bedok
Singapore 469454

Phone

+65 6446 6928

Opening hours

Tue to Sun 12:00 - 22:00

Good Halal food that everyone can enjoy? You can find it here at Badoque Café. Located at Simpang Bedok, a Halal food mecca, Badoque Café is a dazzling Halal food paradise itself where diners are inspired by the favorites from various cuisines in the world.

Highlights:

A Halal restaurant with beautiful Mediterranean fare: Badoque Café features an internationally inspired menu (Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Asian Fusion), but Mediterranean cuisine is the one that takes the spotlight. You will love the Greek salad, seafood pasta, lamb shanks, olive oil dressing, and potato wrapped prawns at Badoque Café.
Beef rib for sharing: The real crowd puller, Badoque’s gargantuan beef rib is served with potatoes, greens, and soaked in thick barbecue sauce. Meat is grilled well-done and served hot to your table, waiting to satiate your cravings for tender and juicy ribs. There’s more, price starts at S$24 for a 450g beef rib and you can share it with a couple of your friends.
Best-tasting entrée: If you think starters are just as important as the main course, then you won’t go wrong with Badoque Café. This Halal restaurant draws the crowd in with its Chicken and Orange salad (S$7). It’s a dish served with chunks of chicken, fresh mandarin orange, and fresh greens all of which are showered with olive oil dressing.
Warm and cordial hospitality: The service at Badoque Café is highly commendable that it deserves to be a highlight. The waiters display warm Malay hospitality like the smiles on their faces are ever-present despite being surrounded by a busy crowd. Staff has the initiative to help the customers out with their food selection and requests so even the first-timers will have a great dining experience.
Generous food portions, suitable for sharing.

AMBIANCE: Badoque Café sports a modern industrial décor with hanged lighting fixtures and the green-black scheme does a great job in giving off a laid-back, cool vibe. The ever-smiling staff adds warmth to the restaurant, keeping the ambiance friendly and relaxing. There are both indoor and outdoor dining areas for you to select your preferred seat for the meal.

RECOMMENDED DISHES

Seafood Marinara Pasta
Naked Salmon
Badoque Beef Ribs
Mermaid’s Tears
Crab with Pie Tee
Potato Wrapped Prawns
Spaghetti Meatballs
Kepak Bing Bing
Smoked Duck Pasta

AVERAGE PRICE/PAX: S$25

2. Penang Place Restaurant

Image: Penang Place Restaurant

Address

3 Temasek Boulevard, #02-314/315/316 Suntec City West Wing, Singapore 038983

Phone

+65 6467 7003

Opening hours

Mon to Fri: 11:30 - 14:30; 18:00 - 21:00
Sats & Sun: 11:30 - 22:00

As its name would suggest, Penang Place Restaurant is where Penang cuisine is celebrated. Reflecting the multicultural background of the island, Penang cuisine showcases the beautiful mix of Chinese, Malay and Indian flavours. And the beauty of this cuisine is presented in each dish found at Penang Place Restaurant.

Highlights:

A place to have Halal Penang food: This is a must visit destination for fans of Penang food. The flavours of Penang Assam Laksa, Penang Hokkien Mee, Penang Char Kway Teow and many more are close to what you can get at the “food paradise” in Malaysia.
A wholesome buffet line with 30 specialities: Prepared by exclusive chefs from Penang, the buffet is an exhaustive selection of mouth-watering hawker favourites, and refreshing, colourful desserts. With so many delights on offer, it surely is a great value for money.
One of the best Penang Char Kway Teow in town: Served piping hot with smoky flavour, this signature dish will make you drool with the aroma itself. With loads of prawns, cockles, squids, fish cakes, eggs, bean sprouts, and scallions, each Char Kway Teow batch flies away as soon as it is laid out.
Have fun with the live cooking stations and create some selected dishes in your own way: Experience that childlike glee by mixing your own ingredients at DIY counters. What is your prefered version of Assam Laska, Fruit Rojak or Ice Kacang? Just make it the way you like.
Dining for the entire family with a special kids buffet: While adults can gorge on spicy Penang flavours, children can have their fill with all-time favourites like Nuggets, French Fries, Chicken Fillet and an array of desserts. Kids simply love the cooking stations as making their own Ice Kacang or Chendol is an exciting activity.

MENU: Penang Place serves extensive lunch and dinner buffets, complete with appetizers, mains and desserts. It also has a la carte menu for lunch.

Penang Place Restaurant singapore Image: Penang Place Restaurant

MUST TRIES

Penang Char Kway Teow
Assam Laksa
Penang Hokkien Mee
Beef Rendang
Cuttlefish Kangkong
Nasi Lemak
Chilli Crab
Fried Cempedak
Chendol

BUFFET PRICES

Adult Lunch Buffet: S$24.90++ (Weekdays), S$30.90++ (Weekends)
Adult Dinner Buffet: S$27.90++ (Weekdays), S$30.90++ (Fri, Weekends)
Child Lunch Buffet: S$15.90++ (Weekdays), S$18.90++ (Weekends)
Child Dinner Buffet: S$17.90++ (Weekdays), S$18.90++ (Fri, Weekends)

NOTES

While the restaurant is not Halal certified (because they serve beer and wine), their meats are from Halal certified vendors and they don’t serve pork or lard. Therefore they have many regular Muslim customers.
Reservation is recommended, especially for dinners and on weekends.

3. Bumbu Restaurant

Image: Bumbu Restaurant

Address

44 Kandahar Street
Singapore 198897

Phone

+65 6392 8628

Opening hours

Tue to Sun 11:00 - 15:00, 18:00 - 22:00

Located in the historic Kampong Glam, Bumbu is a small but good Halal restaurant serving Thai, Indonesian and Peranakan dishes at very reasonable prices. This antique-themed little gem is housed in a quaint shop house, celebrating the beauty of the past.

Highlights:

Serving Thai and Indonesian cuisine with a twist: Want some Thai style Halal foods? Bumbu restaurant has a wide selection of Thai dishes with all-time favourites like Mango Salad, Tom Yum Seafood and Green Curry Chicken to please your taste buds. And let your palate travel without making a move by ordering some Indonesian signature dishes such as Tahu Telor and Beef Rendang.
Charming ambience with lovely Peranakan antiques: The place is decorated with beautiful Peranakan antiques and photographs, collected by the owner himself. Marble tables and doors with carved motifs give this restaurant an old-world charm while Peranakan screens separating tables from each other create a private world for each group of diners.
Buffet is available at below S$20: Bumbu’s buffet line features more than 20 mains and a wide selection of desserts. It is like a mini Asian buffet that offers foodies chance to sample a lot of beautiful dishes from Thai, Indonesian and Peranakan cuisines.
Complimentary papadoms of two kinds are served after being seated. Free crispies are always a delight.
Pleasant staff and quick service: At Bumbu, the delicious yet affordable foods are always accompanied by pleasant service. Staff is friendly and efficient, accommodating and delivering a pretty fast service.

MENU: Bumbu has a decent-sized a la carte menu with selections from Appetisers, Soups, Beef, Poultry, Seafood, Fish, Vegetable & Tofu, Rice & Noodles, and Desserts. A range of set menus, designed to cater for different group sizes, is also on offer.

RECOMMENDED DISHES

Tahu Telor
Beef Rendang
Pandan Leaf Chicken
Tom Yum Seafood Soup
Bumbu Salad
Sambal Kangkong
Steam Fish in Spicy Lime Sauce
Fried Fish with House Chilli
Fish Maw Soup
Tapioca with Coconut Cream
Steamed Custard Pumpkin

AMBIENCE: Bumbu has a relaxed, homely atmosphere with beautiful ornate furniture. Showcasing two dining areas, one downstairs with a few large tables and one upstairs in a high ceiling room, this 60-seat restaurant is a comfortable place for a leisurely dining experience.

AVERAGE PRICE/PAX: S$15

NOTES

No alcohol is served.
Reservation is recommended if you are heading with a large group.
Takeaway service is available.

4. Sofra Turkish Café & Restaurant

Image: Sofra Turkish Cafe Restaurant

Address

100 Beach Road
#02-42/44 Shaw Tower
Singapore 189702

Phone

+65 6291 1433

Opening hours

Mon to Thu 11:30 – 14:30, 18:00 - 21:30
Fri 11:30 – 14:30, 18:00 - 22:00
Sat 12:00 - 22:00
Sun 12:00 - 21:30

Derived from the Turkish word for dining table, Sofra is all-things Turkish cuisine. This is an ideal restaurant for diners who might want to go on a gastronomic journey through Central Asia’s famous dishes. The Halal restaurant’s menu is more of Middle-eastern Turkish food than European.

Highlights:

Turkish Halal food with Middle-eastern fare: If your food preference favours red meat, spiced soups, yoghurt, dishes dressed in olive oil, skewered meats and sides, and all-things eggplants, then your palate definitely suits Sofra’s traditional Turkish dishes.
Wide selection of Kebab dishes: As with any middle-eastern dining experience, kebabs are a highlight of the meal. Meat lovers would love the familiar Iskender, Beyti, Doner Kebab roll, Eggplant kebab, and Adana kebab, all come in a mixture of beef, lamb, and/or chicken meats. Otherwise, you can go for the obscure ones such as Yaprak, Cup kebab, and Sultan kebab.
Chef plate for sharing: Turks traditionally eat at home thus the food come in either large servings or a mixture of everything. Chef plate (S$21.90) showcases Izgara Kofte, Doner Kebap, and Shish Kebap. It is ideal for 2 persons who just want to have a sampling taste of Turkish cuisine without shelling out a load of money.
There’s a pizza to fall for: Pide is a crowd favourite, mainly because it isn’t like your ordinary veggie-friendly pizza. Topped over the soft and crunchy pizza bread are the homemade sauce, roasted eggplant, and minced lamb and chicken. It looks like shawarma on pizza dough and it is succulent enough to satisfy your appetite.

MENU: Guests will love Sofra’s decent size menu, particularly its kebab-loaded mains. The starters are a combination of soups and vegetable salads, among which Hummus (spiced cream mixture of chickpeas & tahini dazzled with lemon juice) is the most popular. Eggplant and mixed meat kebabs can definitely fill up your empty stomach and the desserts are delicious enough to seal your Turkish dining rendezvous.

RECOMMENDED DISHES

Eggplant Salad
Sesame Bread
Lamb Spicy Spaghetti
Sofra Kebap
Sofra Musakka
Adana Kebap
Sofra Spaghetti Aglio
Stuffed Fig
Kenefe (Baked Kadaiff with Cheese)
Baklava (Fitto Pastry with Pistachios)

AMBIENCE: Vibrant, formal and traditional. Located at the Shaw Tower, Sofra sports a contemporary façade. On the inside, it steps up the game with leather seats, wooden panels, indoor plants and vibrant lighting décor to give customers a relaxing dining environment.

AVERAGE PRICE/PAX: S$20-S$30

5. Hajah Maimunah at Jalan Pisang

Image: Hajah Maimunah

Address

11 & 15 Jalan Pisang
Singapore 199082

Phone

+65 6297 4294

Opening hours

Mon to Sat 07:00 - 20:00

Established since the 90s, Hajah Maimunah is one of the best Halal restaurants in Singapore, famous for serving Malay food in traditional Kampung style. It is a perfect place for hungry people who are looking for authentic Malay dishes right in Singapore. This popular restaurant has been featured on Anthony Bourdain’s cookery show.

Highlights:

Serving some of the most delicious, authentic Malay food in Singapore: For a taste of traditional, home-style Malay dishes, get it at Hajah Maimunah. The restaurant’s signatures such as Beef Rendang (braised beef), Ikan Bakar (grilled fish), Ayam Bakar Padang (grilled chicken) and Tahu Telur (deep-fried beancurd) are real crowd pleasers.
A “mind-blowing” selection of more than 40 dishes at affordable prices: Heaps of delicious, colourful dishes are displayed in the clean glass panelled cabinet – curries, seafood, vegetables, deep fried fritters and traditional kuihs. And most of the dishes have prices ranging between S$4 and S$6.
Open for not only lunch and dinner but also breakfast: Malay food lovers have chance to dig into some really fresh, homely breakfast in this restaurant as it is open at 07:00 from Monday to Saturday.

AMBIENCE: Hajah Maimunah is always thronged by huge crowds looking to relish real flavours of Malay cuisine. The restaurant has both indoor and outdoor dining areas to cater for your need.

RECOMMENDED DISHES