The Orchard Cafe at Orchard Hotel Singapore is running its Christmas buffet from 2 November 2026 to 3 January 2027, with Christmas Day lunch at S$138++ and dinner at S$150++. Ordinary weekday lunches start at S$94++, and bookings made by 10 December take 30 per cent off.
The spread goes by the name Made for Merry Gatherings this year. Its centrepieces include a whole turkey roasted with French-style butter and black truffle, and Himalayan salt-baked salmon.
Prices from now to 3 January
- Monday to Thursday: lunch S$94++, dinner S$108++
- Friday and Saturday lunch: S$104++
- Friday to Sunday dinner: S$118++
- Sunday brunch: S$128++
On ordinary days, lunch runs from 12pm to 2pm and dinner from 6pm to 9.30pm. All prices are in Singapore dollars and carry service charge and GST on top.
Christmas and New Year dates
Christmas Eve falls on a Thursday this year. Lunch is S$120++ and dinner S$150++, served in two seatings, 5.30pm to 7.30pm and 8pm to 10pm.
Christmas Day lunch is S$138++, with seatings from 11.30am to 1pm and from 1.30pm to 3pm. Dinner is S$150++ over the same two evening seatings as the night before.
On New Year’s Eve, lunch is S$120++. Dinner costs S$148++ for the 5.30pm to 7.30pm seating and S$168++ for the later one, from 8pm to 10pm.
New Year’s Day lunch is S$104++ and dinner S$118++.
What is on the buffet
Salads open with roasted pear and fig on orange quinoa with feta, and a Nyonya-style turkey kerabu. The charcoal grill turns out tiger prawn kebabs, grilled beef ribs and Spanish-style barbecue pork belly. Elsewhere there is wagyu beef cottage pie, duck leg confit, baked oysters and pork rib in champagne sauce, plus a hot-plate wagyu beef burger and a creamy peanut miso ramen with turkey.
Christmas and New Year’s Eve dinners add pass-around canapés from chef Thenesh: grilled wagyu beef, duck confit and butternut arancini, Hokkaido scallop crudo and durian spring rolls. Christmas diners also get a signature wagyu beef pastrami panini.
Desserts stay traditional. Expect minced fruit pie, marzipan stollen, mixed fruit cake, berry sherry trifle, panettone pudding and cinnamon star cookies, with lychee champagne ice jelly for something cold.
Discounts for members, seniors and children
The early-bird rate is 30 per cent off for bookings made by 10 December 2026 and 25 per cent off for bookings from 11 December.
MyMillennium members eat 1-for-1 for the first 50 diners, and members after that get 30 per cent off. Seniors aged 65 and above pay half price at lunch and dinner. Children below six eat free, and children aged six to 12 pay half the adult price.
These offers cannot be combined. Whether early-bird and member rates cover Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day is not stated, so ask when you reserve.
Booking a table
Reservations are required. The Orchard Cafe is at Orchard Hotel Singapore, 442 Orchard Road, and takes bookings on 6739 6565 or through its TableCheck reservations. The menu rotates and can change without notice.
