Heightened Alert: Curbs and competition

Bowing out: Legacy restaurants

Rental woes and competition have led to Rice Table and Swee Kee Eating House calling it a day

Rice Table (above), which had been operating at its original Orchard Road location at the International Building for the past 24 years, closed on May 15. PHOTO: RICE TABLE INDONESIAN RESTAURANT
Cantonese eatery Swee Kee Eating House in Amoy Street served its last customer on May 30, after its third-generation owner Cedric Tang (above, in a 2017 photograph) decided it was no longer feasible to keep the 82-year-old heritage restaurant going.
Cantonese eatery Swee Kee Eating House in Amoy Street served its last customer on May 30, after its third-generation owner Cedric Tang (above, in a 2017 photograph) decided it was no longer feasible to keep the 82-year-old heritage restaurant going. PHOTO: ST FILE
Wong Ah Yoke
Senior Food Correspondent
Updated
Jun 07, 2021, 11:16 AM
Published
Jun 06, 2021, 05:00 AM
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The current ban on dining in till June 13 has sounded the death knell for at least two of Singapore's long-running restaurants.

Rice Table, an Indonesian rijsttafel restaurant in International Building which opened in 1997, shut its doors on May 16, the day phase two (heightened alert) kicked in with rules that restricted eateries to takeaways and delivery.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on June 06, 2021, with the headline Bowing out: Legacy restaurants. Subscribe

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