11 articles
THAI, from Golden Mile
City Gate sits a few doors from where Golden Mile Complex stood, the building Singaporeans knew as Little Thailand. The Thai cooking here carries that lineage down Beach Road.
June 2026 | By City Gate
The coffee & bakery run
There is a circuit regulars walk at City Gate without ever calling it that. It starts with the smell of butter and ends with an empty paper bag. Here is how to do the coffee and bakery run properly.
June 2026 | By City Gate
Denim, eyewear & the Thai-mart aisle
The shops worth a second trip at City Gate are the specialists — the denim counter that talks you through fabric, the eyewear you cannot buy anywhere else, the grocery aisle that smells like Bangkok. This is a building for browsers, and these are the corners that reward a slow look.
June 2026 | By City Gate
Looked after, head to toe
Pick a day, give it to yourself. With dozens of salons, studios, spa rooms and clinics stacked across the basement and two floors, City Gate is the rare building where you can walk in needing everything and walk out sorted, head to toe.
June 2026 | By City Gate
The everyday errands floor
Every building has the parts that do not make the brochure but get you through the week — the transfer home, the lesson, the thing that needs printing by five. At City Gate, those are not an afterthought. They are a whole floor of them.
June 2026 | By City Gate
Where the basement eats
Take the escalator down, not up. The best meal at City Gate is the one the regulars keep to themselves — one floor below the shops, where the queues are short, the rent stays kind, and the cooking does all the talking.
June 2026 | By City Gate
An address with intent
Imagine your morning coffee, your haircut, your doctor and your dinner all within one lift ride of your front door. Above the shops and the hawker lane, City Gate is also a home — and that is the whole idea.
June 2026 | By City Gate
Healing touch, on three floors
Self-care at City Gate is not a single shop you duck into — it is a routine you can build across three floors. Start at the roots, work down to the feet, and end somewhere with the lights low and your phone off.
June 2026 | By City Gate
The pre-owned luxury floor
The smartest luxury buyers in Singapore are not queueing on Orchard Road. They are here, on a quiet floor at City Gate, where the watches are vintage, the bags are authenticated, and the only pressure is your own good taste.
June 2026 | By City Gate
Readings, rituals & the year ahead
Some of City Gate's most fascinating tenants do not sell you anything you can carry out in a bag. You visit them for the year ahead — for a reading, a plan, a clearer head. Here, that is a real cluster, not a curiosity.
June 2026 | By City Gate
Halal-friendly dining
Looking for halal-friendly food at City Gate? You're in good company. The building sits in one of Singapore's most diverse dining stretches, and the kitchens here cook for everyone — here's where to start, and how to eat well with your preferences in mind.
June 2026 | By City Gate
