Restaurant SELA

It's a quiet peaceful place on a Tuesday night, only 2 tables that night. Staff were very attentive but not intruding. For the food, the sea bass was not bad. For the beef striploin, the taste was good but came with alot of tendons which was quite disappointing. We had used the entertainer app for this meal so it was super worth! We had ordered a cake for celebrating one of our friend's birthday and it came FOC. That was a really sweet surprise! Definitely will be back again when looking for a quiet dinner place, but probably will not order beef again.

Lamb ($40) was minuscule and hard. Steak ($40) done 'medium rare' was full of tendons and also not at all medium rare. For a restaurant trying to go high end it has failed miserably. Deserts were overpriced and worse than what you'd get at the high street shops. I had the mistake of bringing dear friends to the restaurant. Will or patronize again.

Good atmosphere and location - executive set lunch was basic but value for money at $16 dollars. Wait staff need to to understand better English

Enjoyed our meal at Sela restaurant, nice ambience, friendly service, and perfect quality food. Continue to keep up the good work, we will be back! :)

Nice environment. Modern European with an Asian twist. Good value for the quality you are getting.

A cosy restaurant. The spaces between tables were comfortable enough for little personal talks and the servers were pretty friendly. We ordered a steak and a fish using entertainer app 1-1. Fish was fresh but my steak was slightly overcooked. I asked for medium rare and i kinda got medium. But that's fine.... Finished off with a white chocolate moose dessert. Din't impress... Maybe we should order the poached pear instead!

Decent food for the modest pricing. Good service. A greater range of tastes would be better for their tasting menu though.

Very friendly service. Was attended by Mr Richard, who is knowledgeable and responsive. The other service staff are friendly and prompt too. Had a very enjoyable dinner.

quiet restaurant. service was good but food plating was a bit disappointing.

Good food and cosy ambience at reasonable price. Staff were also friendly and knew the food well, able to make good recommendations. Dessert of poached sake pear was heavenly. Will definitely return again for more.

overall a place that o would to go back again . Cozy and warm . Service is good and staff are very friendly . Food is good too .

They called a week before to confirm the reservations and a day before again to make reservations. As it was a birthday celebration, they even prepared a special cake. Worth coming back again.

Very easy to locate the restaurant. With nice ambience. The staffs are very friendly. Food was nice. Even thought we had the food tasting menu of 7-course, the potion is just nice for us.

Nice ambience great food amazing value excellent service wide selection of wines Japanese craft beers ... awesome dining experience! ! You should be here !

Nice ambience and the venue is located convinently in the middle of city hall and bugis. Service staffs were friendly and knowledgable on the food products. Good range of wine products and food portion was just nice but slightly salty to my taste buds. On an overall, it's still worth a second visit.

Really enjoyed the 5 course menu. Comes with a glass of wine, so perfect! Been before, so took this opportunity to take some friends. We'll be back

The restaurant serves good food with nice atmosphere. The executive set lunch is value for money while the ala carte menu offers decent options for vegetarians. The ceiling is high hence reduces noise level. We find it a good choice for mini gathering.

SELA is a newly opened restaurant on Seah Street. Servers were friendly and enthusiastic. We had the bread basket, Mushroom Soup, charred cauliflower salad and Miso Chilean Sea Bass. The meal was quite delightful and pretty affordable.

The Good Main courses of Cod and Pork were superb. Free bottle of wine if paying by Citi card. Friendly and helpful staff. The Bad A reverse type menu in a dark restaurant is almost impossible to read.

Visited for lunch. When entered the restaurant, it has a pretty strong fishy smell but the smell goes away. Went for the lunch deal which is a soup, main and dessert. Soup is alright in a sense it tastes like using knorr or some ready made soup. Had the beef sirloin which was very well done. Juicy and tender. Dessert was vanilla ice cream with some semi dried fruits. Simple but good.

First time here thanks to the Sela Dining Experience Card I bought. Came with my director and colleagues for a company lunch and they had nothing but praise for the food. :) Will be back again soon!

Great First impression. Would go back again, especially hearing that their menu would be updated for a new season. Server was a tad over-friendly, but nothing untoward.

We made a reservation, not knowing much about the cuisine and dishes offered, not even expecting much as we were really famished at 8pm. Upon stepping in, the comfortable interior and cozy ambience set the mood, and we were really excited for dinner to be served. We seldom order lamb rack, for it wasn’t easy for it to be handled well. But boy! It was so well done, medium rare just right, and without the funky smell. We were also blown away by the seabass, melts in your mouth! We will definitely be back, keep up the good work Sela Restaurant!

Service was pleasant but slow as they were shorthanded but I understand it was due to a staff who reported sick at short notice. Food was nice but it could be better if the portion was bigger for me :-)

The food was delicious and the service was wonderful! Overall it was a great dining experience, and my wife and I hope to be able to visit your restaurant again.

This is my second time patronizing the restaurant. The food quality and service are better this time round. They even provide us with a complimentary bday Brownie cake as it was a bday celebration. Thank u SELA!

Food is well presented, taste good and attentive service. Location is convenient too. Tasting portion is just nice and a good sampling of the food prepared by the chef

More noisy & cafè-like than we expected. Food was quite good and reasonably priced, but wine was very expensive.

The food was good and tasty. It has a twist to the way its cooked. Value for money and service was lovely. Great place to hang out with friends and the ambience is cosy.

Excellent service. The set lunch was nice and good value for money but can be more exciting. My favourite dish is the mushroom appetiser. Will go again to give it another chance

My partner and I went there for dinner to celebrate one of our birthdays. Based on the few reviews online, we were expecting good straightforward cooking with reasonable prices, however, we were solely disappointed and walked away with one of our worst and most frustrating dining experiences to date. The best thing we can say about the place is that the decor is modern yet cosy, much like an upmarket Grecian or Mediterranean inspired restaurant. Upon inquiring about the 5-course taster menu, we decided to order two, since we are fans of variety. This came with a choice of red or white house pour wine - we ordered the red. The house pour red wine that was served to us was fridge chilled, which was strange for red wine. Nonetheless, still lovely to drink. The first course of soup of the day that was carrot soup arrived. It was smooth and healthy tasting. What was unfortunate was that three cubes of croutons on top; they were not crispy, but instead chewy and hard. The second course was the a starter of King trumpet mushroom, salad leaves and beetroot. Even though we were expecting small portions since it was a tasting menu, the plate arrived with two slices of heavily seasoned mushroom sitting on a few green leaves. The salad was dressed well however badly wilted in some parts. These were accompanied by a lone piece of small and badly shaped cube of raw beetroot. Enter first main of barramundi that was the most decent part of the dinner. A fillet of fish that was well cooked and seasoned deliciously rested on top of good potato mash and blanched Chinese spinach. What was interesting was the drizzle of salsa to bring it all together. The salsa was cold, which wasn't a bad thing per se, but it just didn't feel very intended since there were bits that were warmed by the fillet of cooked fish. In any case, this was fairly delicious. Thinking that it's gonna be all good from here, the striploin arrived - a sizeable portion of medium rare beef. The meat was tender and pink in the centre, which was good. However, what disappointed was the evident taste of mass produced stock granules in the gravy, which was thickened heavily with starch. There was little to no depth of flavour, and was literally salty brown gloopy sauce. Funny enough, we discovered that a bit of the first course made it onto this plate as well; there was some unseasoned carrot puree mingling with the brown gravy. Strange. Other elements featured boiled skin-on baby potato halves, boiled wonky-shaped carrot pieces, boiled sugar snap peas, and a couple of raw cherry tomato halves, which were all completely lacking in any form of seasoning whatsoever. I suppose that brown gloop was the component put in charge of this task. Finally, dessert time! We thought to ourselves that this was going to be a decent course, because like, you can't really mess dessert up, right? And dessert is always good? Strawberry mousse was on the menu and we were excited. What came was a cuboid of mousse that was somewhat okay, even though it lacked the fluffy texture that mousse has. The plate was dressed up with a few blueberry halves, two small cut up pieces of strawberry, two gooseberry quarters. Everything was held together was a strawberry coolie that reminded us of Hershey's strawberry syrup. In any case, dessert looked somewhat pretty. After paying up and walking out, my partner and I were torn between feeling utterly disappointed with dinner and feeling embarrassed for being unreasonable with our expectations. For $50+ per head, we couldn't decide if we got what we paid for, or we really got ripped off. But I think what made us truly sad was thinking about the couple next to us who almosy had everything we had, but ordered each dish from the a la carte menu. The portions were simply two of each of ours, or less, on one plate! Dessert simply being a single cuboid of strawberry mousse, with more fruits. Maybe Sela was good awhile back, but it really isn't worth the visit now. I write this review with a heavy heart since it makes me look like a mean person, but people should know what they're getting themselves into, especially if it involves disappointment. If anyone still does insist on giving this a shot, please DON'T commit to the 5-course taster menu. Unless you have seriously low expectations of what good cooking is.

Food is really very delicious and tender, but it is very pricey. I'm not a wine drinker, so it is very bitter for us. We ordered Carbonara and Chicken as 1 for 1 main, and a complimentary wine.

Very good creative food with simple ingredients , great service and the price was very reasonable . Will definitely go again when I am back in Singapore .

Great service and ambience. Food was well done only thing that could be better was serving time as it was a little slow compared to usual restaurants

Excellent and friendly service and pleasant ambiance. Food was great and value for money (especially with the Entertainer app), will definitely consider going back there again!

great and friendly staff, food was good too! sea bass and striploin were perfect :)

Service was good. Food average in taste and portions rather small for the price tag . Worst Panna cotta ever had, we sent it back

Once again, SELA never disappoints, the food was perfect. We would like to urge the waitress to take some initiative to check in on us after she have seated us. We waited quite awhile before we could get her attention despite being newly seated amongst patrons who are in the midst of dinner. Furthermore, due to our seating position, the kitchen blocked the holding area for the staff. Once the table beside us cleared, the waitress proceeded immediately to clear the table. Whilst cleaning the table, she sprayed the cleaning agent and some of it actually reached us. Of course, she apologized, but please be more careful! We will be back nonetheless, for the oustanding quality of food.

Nice restarts urn with great ambience. Nice staff too. Food is good but not too pricy, place pretty quiet but nice for a simple date.

Nice ambience. Food was good. Enjoyed having lunch there as crowd was just nice. Price was reasonable too. Will go back again and try their executive set lunch.

Very nice food, great experience and we enjoyed it alot..highly recommended. Good service staff and was given a complimentary birthday cake as I was celebrating my friends Brithay. ;)

Great ambience and food! The staff were very helpful and recommended the right food for our palette. I will definitely come back again to dine.

Good restaurant. Food: had the striploin steak and miso cod. flavours were great but my wife and I found the food a tad salty. It may be spot on for others though as we have lighter palate Service: great prompt service with a smile. Enjoyed the service and staff feels genuine. Thanks to both staff serving us! Ambience: industrial chic. Like the setting.

Friendly staff, great food, nice atmosphere. This review requires a minimum of 25 words which is plain silly. I think those few words say it all.

Great food and service. We loved our sea bass and angus, unique pairing of ingredients which worked well. Mains took a good 30min to arrive, we were starving by them. Would have been pretty expensive without our vouchers.

Love the Chilean Seabass. Its quite addictive too! Will sure go back for it regularly!

It's our second time there. Great ambience for couples and friends to get together. Food portion is excellent. They have items with larger portions for sharing or "Mains" for one to indulge. Love their appetisers - dishes never seen before elsewhere. Their mains: Duck breast, Lamb rack, Beef Tenderloin, Fish and Prawns... how does one choose? Sometimes, they have specials that are not on the menu... Was muscles last night; steaming hot muscles in delicious broth served with a glass of white. Great start to our dinner.

Excellent taste, choice and presentation of brunch. Second visit and taste been consistent so far! The promptness and attentiveness of service can be improve though could be due to handful of us.

The food was a delight and the service staff attentive. Nice ambience and the no-corkage nights were very welcomed!

Visits SELA for the first time and had dinner. Pretty place with a bare, minimalist charm. Menu was concise but provided a choice of 4~5 items for starters and 5~6 items for mains. Unfortunately service of food took an unacceptably long time, with starters being served 40 min after placing our order and a further 20 min for the mains. Moreover, some of us were served lukewarm dishes. The service staff apologized and explained this was due to a revamped menu that just begun. We left the restaurant being very disappointed by the experience, despite being comp'd for 2 main courses as a gesture of the restaurant's goodwill. Hopefully the kitchen staff and service staff will ensure they are better coordinated for other guests