Martina's Kitchen opens second outlet at Aperia Mall
Martina's Kitchen is taking its Peranakan format beyond Seletar. The restaurant has opened a second outlet at Aperia Mall, giving the brand a more central address and a bigger dining room built around family-style comfort, heritage dishes and a fairly obvious nostalgia button.
Aeperia gets the larger play
The new site at 12 Kallang Avenue, #01-60/61, Singapore 339511 seats 128 guests and is positioned as a "living museum" courtyard rather than a standard mall restaurant. That is the pitch, anyway: vibrant interiors, historic references, a wall of colourful windows inspired by Old Hill Street Police Station, and a collection of Peranakan objects that turns the room into part dining room, part display case.
For diners, the practical upside is simple. The opening hours are more generous than many lunch-only heritage spots, and the location is a cleaner bet for office crowds, neighbourhood families and people who do not want to trek all the way to Seletar for a bowl of sambal chicken.
Data Box
- Address: Aperia Mall @ 12 Kallang Avenue, #01-60/61, Singapore 339511
- Capacity: 128 seats
- Hours: Monday to Friday, 11.00am to 10.00pm; Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays, 10.00am to 10.00pm
- Launch promo: 10% off the bill until 31 July 2026
- Live music: Fridays and Saturdays from 6.30pm
The five-senses angle
The restaurant's concept leans hard into presentation, but the menu carries most of the weight. The team says the space is meant to engage sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. In practice that means colourful decor, Friday and Saturday pop-jazz sets, heritage spice aromas from the kitchen and dishes served with the kind of polish that makes the room feel more deliberate than decorative.
Founder Eileen Tay-Wong frames the brand as a family-led project rather than a nostalgia exercise. That matters, because there is plenty of Peranakan branding in Singapore and not all of it survives contact with the plate. Martina's Kitchen is trying to keep the emotional register intact while moving the experience into a more accessible part of town.
What to order
The menu's strongest signal is familiarity done properly. The must-tries named by the restaurant include Singapore satay, sengguang goreng, sambal chicken, steam Assam red snapper and black vinegar pork trotter. The recommended pairing is the lemongrass chicken with a Bird of Paradise mocktail, which is exactly the sort of combination that sounds slightly engineered until you realise it probably works.
The biggest question is whether the second outlet can keep the Seletar branch's sense of personality while handling a broader lunch-and-dinner crowd. The answer will depend less on the marketing language and more on consistency. If the kitchen can deliver the same warmth at scale, Aperia should give Martina's Kitchen a steadier, more commercial footprint.
