{"id":44101,"date":"2026-04-13T12:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44101"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:27:35","slug":"andre-chiang-on-why-his-raffles-singapore-restaurant-is-a-love-letter-to-the-hotels-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44101","title":{"rendered":"Andr\u00e9 Chiang on why his Raffles Singapore restaurant is a \u2018love letter\u2019 to the hotel\u2019s past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/10\/963369ee-3aea-4460-a9f6-e4b8005ad718_16a5d260.jpg?itok=pgu6ateb&amp;v=1775810148\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Every time chef Andr\u00e9 Chiang calls it a day, something big follows.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2024, he \u201cretired\u201d again, recasting Raw as a culinary academy for young Asian chefs, and returned to Singapore to make his next moves.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">In the Lion City, he co-curated the dining programme for luxury train operator Belmond\u2019s Eastern &amp; Oriental Express route, which starts there. He also launched a hotpot concept, Bon Broth, in the Raffles City shopping centre, and took up a <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">writer-in-residence role<\/span> at Raffles Hotel Singapore.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It is in this last location that 1887 by Andr\u00e9 opened on March 31, taking over the space formerly occupied by French fine-dining restaurant La Dame de Pic.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chiang\u2019s new restaurant serves what he calls \u201cheritage gastronomy\u201d, meaning dishes drawn from the hotel\u2019s founding era and Singapore\u2019s layered food culture, influenced by French technique.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3349643\/andre-chiang-why-his-raffles-singapore-restaurant-love-letter-hotels-past?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time chef Andr\u00e9 Chiang calls it a day, something big follows. In 2024, he \u201cretired\u201d again, recasting Raw as a culinary academy for young&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[19371,17712,2301,6530,772,2305,476,22],"class_list":["post-44101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-andre","tag-chiang","tag-hotels","tag-letter","tag-love","tag-raffles","tag-restaurant","tag-singapore","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44101","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=44101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}