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Dempsey in an Afternoon

Three restaurants inside a few hundred metres of former British Army barracks on Dempsey Road, which the army left in 1989 and which has been let as a dining estate ever since.

Assembled and reviewed by Global City Intelligence on 2026-09-08. The order below is a suggested route, not a ranking.

The route

  1. Samy's Curry

    Tanglin

    In Block 25, serving banana-leaf meals since 1963 — the oldest tenancy of the three.

  2. Burnt Ends

    Tanglin

    At 7 Dempsey Road, built around a brick kiln and a four-tonne elevation grill.

  3. Candlenut

    At 17A, taking Peranakan home cooking into a tasting-menu format.

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