Siti - Southeast Asian

Siti doesn't pretend to be the hawker stall it's quoting. It's a dressed-up Southeast Asian restaurant on the East Side, pulling from Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand, and putting satay skewers and babi guling on the same menu as oysters and cocktails built for a night out. That's a specific bet: homage over replica, polish over grit.

The nasi lemak is the clearest example. It won't convince anyone's grandmother from Penang — the sambal and anchovies are dialed back, there's a fried egg riding on top — but in a city where that coconut rice mostly turns up at pop-ups, its steady presence on a real menu counts for something. Across the board the softening is real, but so is the payoff: the food tastes good, and it works as an entry point into flavors this city doesn't get served often enough.

The room does its part too, buzzy and packed in a way that makes the food feel like an event rather than a lecture on authenticity. Siti knows exactly what it's translating and for whom, and it translates well.

Michelin selected it in 2025. That's confirmation, not the case — the case is a menu that makes bold regional cooking legible without gutting what makes it worth eating in the first place.