Yantra
Elegant Indian dining at Tanglin Mall with regional dishes and heritage-led menus.
Yantra is a refined Indian restaurant in Tanglin Mall with a menu shaped around India's regional breadth, not only the familiar North Indian restaurant staples. The restaurant highlights vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes, niche ingredients from across the subcontinent and South East Asia, and a culinary direction associated with historian Pritha Sen and Executive Chef Pinaki Ray. The setting is one of its strengths, with multiple dining spaces inspired by Indian design references. It works well for business lunches, family celebrations and diners who want a deeper, more composed Indian meal without going fully into tasting-menu territory.
Yantra feels like one of Singapore's most complete Indian dining rooms. The food has enough historical and regional detail to interest serious diners, but it still gives groups plenty to share. Its butter chicken and kebabs may draw casual orders, yet the broader menu is the real reason to go. Service and interiors make it suitable for a polished night out. The trade-off is that the experience can feel more formal and considered than spontaneous, so it is less of a quick Little India fix.
Yantra ranks highly for its regional ambition, polished room, vegetarian breadth and consistent positioning as a serious Indian restaurant for both occasion dining and informed everyday indulgence.