F&B closures Tippling Club to shut on Dec 31, Wine RVLT in 2025

Wave after wave of closures have battered the food and beverage scene this year - and the last quarter of 2024 has not spared long-time establishments.

- Eunice Quek

Wave after wave of closures have battered the food and beverage scene this year, and the last quarter of 2024 has not spared long-time establishments.

Tippling Club in Tanjong Pagar closes on Dec 31 after more than 16 years, following the shutting of several restaurants in November.

Three restaurants ended their leases on Nov 30. They are 10-year-old vegetarian restaurant Joie at Orchard Central, as well as Italian restaurants Gemma and one-Michelin-starred Art di Daniele Sperindio, with their nine-year lease up at the National Gallery Singapore.

Prior to this, 16-year-old Japanese restaurant Akanoya Robatayaki at Orchard Rendezvous Hotel shut on Nov 26, while four-year-old Portuguese restaurant Tuga in Dempsey also bowed out in the same month.

All these add to the slew of Michelin-starred establishments that ceased operations in 2024, including Sommer, Chef Kang's, Braci, Beni, La Dame de Pic and Sushi Kimura.

And there are more to come, with popular wine bar Wine RVLT in Carpenter Street announcing on Dec 6 that it will not be renewing its lease in 2025.

In an Instagram post, it highlights a rise in the cost of ingredients, utilities and rent and that the business is "no longer sustainable".