{"id":21062,"date":"2025-12-18T15:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21062"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:32:35","slug":"how-singapores-bbq-hotspot-burnt-ends-still-has-diners-fighting-for-tables-12-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21062","title":{"rendered":"How Singapore\u2019s BBQ hotspot Burnt Ends still has diners fighting for tables 12 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New wood-fired restaurants continue to light up Singapore\u2019s dining scene, but few can hold a candle to Burnt Ends, a modern Australian barbecue institution on Dempsey Hill.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The restaurant, which has held one Michelin star since 2018, is also No 38 on the Asia\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list, and debuted in fifth place on this year\u2019s World\u2019s 101 Best Steak Restaurants list \u2013 the highest new entry.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But what reveals Burnt Ends\u2019 position as Singapore\u2019s go-to barbecue establishment more than anything is that it is still difficult to get a seat there 12 years after its opening.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Burnt Ends began as a pop-up called Burnt Enz in East London in 2012. For five months, founder Dave Pynt ran it as a residency in the courtyard of coffee roaster Climpson\u2019s Arch.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe threw a party on the opening night, and were quite modest with our portioning, and it went f*****g mental,\u201d says Pynt, who was born and raised in Perth, in Western Australia. \u201cFrom that point, it was game on.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A wood-fired 75-day dry-aged Wagyu joint comes out of the oven at Burnt Ends in Singapore. Photo: Simon Pynt\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/18\/256296f4-77eb-43e2-ab14-1115b34352ca_207547d6.jpg\" title=\"A wood-fired 75-day dry-aged Wagyu joint comes out of the oven at Burnt Ends in Singapore. Photo: Simon Pynt\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">A wood-fired 75-day dry-aged Wagyu joint comes out of the oven at Burnt Ends in Singapore. Photo: Simon Pynt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">He scrolls through his Facebook photo album for an image of the original menu, and items show up that regulars at Singapore\u2019s Burnt Ends will be familiar with. These include the sanger (sandwich); bone marrow with new season onions, oysters and lime; roasted quail and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">sriracha<\/span>; and a highland beef steak.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3336843\/how-singapores-bbq-hotspot-burnt-ends-still-has-diners-fighting-tables-12-years?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New wood-fired restaurants continue to light up Singapore\u2019s dining scene, but few can hold a candle to Burnt Ends, a modern Australian barbecue institution on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1200,13499,3809,617,3745,4271,209,4039,59],"class_list":["post-21062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-bbq","tag-burnt","tag-diners","tag-ends","tag-fighting","tag-hotspot","tag-singapores","tag-tables","tag-years","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}