{"id":92572,"date":"2026-10-13T12:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92572"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:57:03","slug":"singapores-3-michelin-star-neo-nordic-restaurant-zen-reopens-with-a-local-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92572","title":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s 3-Michelin-star neo-Nordic Restaurant Zen reopens with a local touch"},"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\/10\/13\/fa90140f-d75d-40ee-b74d-f24953ae0b45_45b649f5.jpg?itok=O8LhBqT0&amp;v=1791861515\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Singapore\u2019s three-Michelin-star Restaurant Zen reopened in August 2026 after a three-month refurbishment \u2013 with a medley of changes that mark its new chapter.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Founded in 2018 by Swedish chef <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Bjorn Frantzen<\/span>, Zen inhabits a three-storey shophouse along the buzzing Bukit Pasoh Road in Chinatown.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The renewed interior swaps the previous living-room setting on the ground floor for a 16-seat stone counter, in a look more reminiscent of Frantzen\u2019s eponymous restaurant in Stockholm and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">FZN in Dubai<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI wanted to even out the time you spend on each floor and showcase the skills of the chef with the kitchen counter,\u201d says 49-year-old Frantzen, currently the only chef in the world to simultaneously run a trio of three-Michelin-star restaurants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3370666\/singapores-3-michelin-star-neo-nordic-restaurant-zen-reopens-local-touch?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore\u2019s three-Michelin-star Restaurant Zen reopened in August 2026 after a three-month refurbishment \u2013 with a medley of changes that mark its new chapter. Founded in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[31588,1034,31589,15871,476,209,2154,30574],"class_list":["post-92572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-3michelinstar","tag-local","tag-neonordic","tag-reopens","tag-restaurant","tag-singapores","tag-touch","tag-zen","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92572","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=92572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}