Est. 1997 · The flagship, in the garden
CALI Rochester Park
An all-day restaurant and bar under the rain trees — where the coffee starts early, the terrace welcomes your dog, and dinner runs late.
The one with the garden,
and the open gate for dogs.
Rochester is where CALI began the all-day idea: breakfast under the trees, a long unhurried lunch, cocktails as the light drops. Western plates carried by Indian technique — grilled, spiced, and built to share.
People
Plates made to pass around a table — generous, familiar, the ones a room orders twice.
Islands
Coastal and clean, Singapore-grown — Kin Yan mushrooms, Edible Garden City herbs, day-caught fish.
Spice
The spice cabinet under the Western plate: curry leaf, laksa leaf, lemongrass, pandan. Warmth, not heat.
Brick, warm light, and trees at the window.
The dishes we would point to.
Curry-leaf season.
Each month a new plate lands and one signature steps forward. This month it's the Grand Marina Cod, finished in curry-leaf brown butter — our quietest signature, front and centre.
Book to try itTwenty-two meals a day, given on trust.
CALI keeps twenty-two seats a day for the people a city tends to overlook — no forms, no proof, no questions. The plate in front of a guest has a twin at another table.
A table under the trees is two taps away.
Stories from the garden.
Our other places.
CALI Raffles Place Restaurant
Our restaurant & bar in the heart of the CBD — the city sibling of Rochester.
CALI Raffles Place Cocktail Bar
The late-night cocktail bar downstairs — low light, long pours, city views.
PEN & INC · ONE-NORTH
Our restaurant-and-bar in the one-north district — plates, pours and the same standard.
PEN & INC · NTU
PEN & INC on the NTU campus — restaurant and bar for students, staff and visitors.