For most of us, the advent of Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 probably feels like another year, another crop of staid mooncakes from the usual hotels. But what if we told you that more restaurants – including Michelin-starred establishments – are now sticking their hands into Singapore’s proverbial mooncake tin?
Venues like Peranakan restaurant Candlenut and Franco-Asian fine diner Restaurant Born are now putting out their own bespoke mooncakes.
While these newfangled mooncakes aren’t exactly cheaper than hotel fare, they’re at least a chance for something better than the usual iPhone-esque iterations.
There’s only so much more yolks and more truffles one can endure. Less sugar and fancier boxes? It’s nice, but ultimately not a game-changer.
Read on for our list of restaurants to get your mooncakes from this Mid-Autumn Festival 2025, including our top pick for festive, yet healthy, deliciousness.
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1. Michelin-starred Candlenut sticks to tradition with baked mooncakes in the guise of Peranakan tiles
Michelin-starred Candlenut has unveiled its first mooncake collection ever, and it is a suitably Peranakan-accented number with hints of jasmine, pandan, lemongrass, and oolong to go with smooth lotus paste ($50 for two pieces).
Its Straits Chinese identity shines with a bespoke Peranakan tile design on every handmade baked mooncake, as well as with accompanying gifts like coasters, plates, and tea towels, all collaborations with other bona fide homegrown brands.
Don’t forget to get a pack of their Bespoke Blue Pea Flower Tea to go along with it.
2. Restaurant Born’s mooncake collection comes with collab flavours from three Michelin-starred Thai kitchens
If what you’re looking for is a mooncake collection with all the star power you can stomach, it’s hard to beat Restaurant Born’s debut collection with the likes of Bangkok’s Le Du, Potong, and Sühring (the count is five Michelin stars in total – the lattermost is two-starred while the rest are one-starred).
Flavours, in order of the restaurant which presents them, includes one bursting with molten salted-egg lava; a mochi-centred roselle flower and hawthorn bake; a lemak pairing of coconut cream and sun-dried coconut flakes; and a dark mocha mooncake cradling a white coconut heart.
What’s most amazing perhaps is the collection’s relative affordability: the entire set, with one piece of each, is available at just $65.
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3. Seven-yolk sharing mooncake from newly opened Mansion 7
The newly opened Cantonese restaurant on Maxwell Road, Mansion 7, is starting strong with a full range of mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival 2025.
Stick to tradition with the Signature Baked Single Yolk Pandan Jade Paste with Melon Seeds Mooncake at $23.10 a pop, or go big with the Mansion Seven 7-Yolk Huge Traditional Baked “Low Sugar” White Lotus with Melon Seeds Mooncake.
It’s a great centrepiece for a family celebration, and almost a steal at $52.80 once you’ve accounted for how many people you can feed with this giant pastry.
4. Budget-friendly baked mooncakes by Soup Restaurant
If you’re looking for a mooncake set that won’t break the bank, consider the debut collection from the well-loved Soup Restaurant chain.
Its inaugural pastry selection for Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 is as classic as it gets with a trio of white lotus baked mooncakes cradling melon seeds, a single egg yolk, or an indulgent double yolk ($64 to $80 for a box of four).
Consider getting a box – you’ll also be supporting Soup Restaurant’s mission to uplift local artists with special needs.
They’ve collaborated with Lee Jun Le, diagnosed with autism since the age of three, to design the cheerful motifs dancing across both the mooncake tin and the reusable scarf its wrapped in.
5. Luxe gifting with The Black Pearl’s 2025 mooncake collection
The Black Pearl is a swanky new Cantonese restaurant in Odeon 333, and yes, it has nothing to do with pirates. Though it is just a few months young, it’s embracing its first mooncake festival with a broadside of mooncake flavours, handily split into two main gifting sets.
There’s the humbler set of four baked mooncakes (Rose Lychee Tea, Yuzu with Single Yolk, White Peach Longjing Tea, and Brown Sugar Red Dates Ginger Tea Longan Paste) for $98.
But if you’re really looking to impress, go for the exquisite multi-tiered gifting set complete with complimentary cutlery, two traditional baked double yolk mooncakes, and two Hong Kong-style custard mooncakes sprinkled with gold dust for $198.
While it’s quite the hefty sum, there are only 88 sets available, so be sure to grab one early if you’re really interested.
