THE SUMMERHOUSE BLOOMS ANEW — A GARDEN ESTATE REIMAGINED FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET GATHERINGS.
New interiors and a fresh rhythm move guests through ten refreshed spaces — bloom by day, gather by dusk, glow by night, as The Summerhouse repositions as the North’s premier garden lifestyle destination.
For the past decade, The Summerhouse has stood as the north’s must-visit garden destination where families, couples and groups have made the trip to for a slow afternoon or a special night out. Now, it’s entering a new chapter. Originally built in the 1930s as a Royal Air Force bungalow and established as The Summerhouse since 2016, the conserved colonial estate has undergone its most significant refresh yet across its 45,000 sqft compound — ten refreshed spaces, breathing new life into every corner with new spaces, new interiors, new menus, and new experiences, tied together by a story that makes sense of it all: Grow, Gather, Glow, Getaway. Whether guests arrive for a slow weekday brunch or a late Saturday night, there’s a version of The Summerhouse built for that hour. One compound, four pillars, ten spaces, and infinite reasons to stay a little longer.
GROW: BLOOM ROOM OPENS ITS DOORS
By day, Bloom Room and its adjoining Sunlit Porch hold Wildseed Café for hearty brunches, floral high teas, and slow afternoons. Inside The Bloom Room, is an indoor floral space where the garden finds its way onto every plate and into every cup. Bloom Room will run a rotating programme of floral workshops that include flower arrangements, floral bakes decorations, and seasonal activities such as Christmas Wreath making that guests can book alongside their high tea session. Outside on the Sunlit Porch, the café’s alfresco stretch has been reworked with new booth seating, built for the groups and gatherings to feel comfortable and recharge over a hearty brunch. With the refreshed interiors, a new line of seasonal garden desserts will be introduced made with ingredients and edible flowers grown from The Summerhouse’s own Garden Beds. The first two: Vanilla Lavender Blueberry Petite Cake filled with light vanilla cream, blueberry lavender compote and vanilla sponge, as well as Pandan Lime Blossom Cake, covered with pandan coconut crémeux, lime curd, and pandan sponge.
GATHER: THE LAWN, THE ESTATE’S GATHERING GROUND
The Lawn, the estate’s open courtyard, is where The Summerhouse comes together as a community. It’s built to host an ongoing calendar of pop-ups, markets, partner events, and activations, turning into the estate’s social stage. Residents in the North can expect giant lawn games for casual weekend play, alongside a lineup of seasonal events such as Oktoberfest and Christmas Markets. Among them, seasonal large-scale decor installations built for Halloween and the year-end festive season make for a photo-worthy spot to bring friends and kids, without the crowds in the city.
Wags & Wander, the estate’s pet play area, lives right within the green manicured grounds, giving guests and their dogs room to roam, and will grow beyond a play area into a community fixture, with pet community meet-ups, dog-friendly brunches, and pet walks around The Oval.
GROW: THE GARDEN BEDS, THE QUIET HEART OF IT ALL
Wander further in and you’ll find where much of the estate’s flavour actually begins: The Garden
Beds, the estate’s edible garden and home to over 20 species of herbs and plants, offering
self-guided trails for guests who want to see where the herbs on their plate were pulled from
that morning.
The garden isn’t just scenery, it’s the estate’s shared pantry, picked fresh daily by the dedicated chefs of Wildseed and Botanico. The same beds that guests wander through by day supply all three concepts: Wildseed Cafe’s kitchen, Wildseed Bar’s garden-to-glass cocktails, and Botanico’s Italian, nonna-style dishes all draw from what’s growing steps away. It’s a single garden, running through three very different tables.
GLOW: ROMANCE UNDER THE STARS AT THE GARDEN DOMES
As the light softens, so does the estate. The estate’s transparent geodesic Garden Domes are newly dressed in soft interiors with trailing botanicals, fairy lights, made for an intimate setting for private dinners and romantic proposals under a canopy of glass and sky. For larger celebrations, The Glasshouse offers the same exclusive setting at a grander scale, with a private chef option that features a live grill right by the structure that can cater to birthdays or even gender reveal celebrations up to 12 pax. A new farm-to-table premium five-course set dinner, starting from $380++ for two, launches in August.
BOTANICO TURNS TO NONNA-STYLE ITALIAN DINING
Upstairs, Botanico relaunches its farm-to-table concept with a new culinary identity that is anchored on warmth and the heart of classic Italian dining. Homemade pastas are served from large trays and pots, whole fish and meat carvings finished over open wood fire, herbs and ingredients drawing on the estate’s own Garden Beds and local farms are used across the menu. At the heart of it is the Nonna-Style Pot — a weekly rotating pasta ritual, available every day. One pot, served table-side around the restuarant where guests can enjoy as many refills as they like. The featured pasta changes weekly, rotating through Fusilli Al Bronzo, Truffle Gnocchi, Kelong Prawn Ravioli and Linguine Vongole before beginning again.
Step onto The Verandah, overlooking the front porch and surrounding greenery of The Summerhouse is decked out with new dining tables and chairs, for families to dine out on a regular weekday night or couples to spend quality date nights in the charming colonial setting.
For guests who need a room, not just a table, The Orchid Room offers something rarer in Singapore’s north, a private, intimate space suited to corporate gatherings and closed-door celebrations alike. It’s also, quietly, one of the estate’s best stories: the same dining space once hosted a private dinner between Singapore’s former Prime Minister and former U.S. president.
To mark the relaunch, Botanico is opening the Nonna-Style Pot to guests as a free-flow pasta deal at $10++ per person, available throughout September, an accessible way for first-time guests to try the new concept.
Botanico will also introduce a series of wine dinners starting 17 October, opening with an Italian Wine Journey, a curated wine pairing menu tracing Italy’s wine regions course by course.
On weekends, Botanico introduces The Carrello Brunch, an à la carte buffet built as a single curated journey rather than an open spread. Priced at $60++ per pax (minimum two guests), the meal unfolds course by course in one continuous sequence: The Picking arrives first, a morning basket of garden herbs cut that day, with dips, pantry jars and bread while the Terrace Spread sits open for self-serve throughout. The Carrello experience begins with a trolley service of small plates, followed by pastas tossed through a wheel of Parmigiano, tableside. Main course closes the savoury sequence, portioning whole Kelong sea bass, 24-hour slow-cooked beef cheek and Inka smoked Iberico pork collar at the table, before a dessert trolley brings the meal to a close. The sequence ensures that every guest experiences the same curated journey to taste the flavours of Italy in small portions in wide variety before requesting for any dish again.
GETAWAY: WILDSEED BAR, VIBRANT GATHERINGS AFTER DARK
As evening falls, the grounds give way to Sunset Porch, where Wildseed Bar pours garden-to-glass cocktails against a vibrant bar atmosphere with live music daily — a place to unwind after work or gather with friends and family. New booth seating now caters properly to bigger groups. Saturdays bring Garden Grill, pairing live-fire cooking with the live band.
The refresh also brings a new lineup of grilled sharing plates: Honey Back Ribs (12-hour slow-cooked baby back ribs, potato dippers, red cabbage slaw), Smoked Chicken Leg (home-smoked chicken, chat white potatoes, sustainable salad, salsa verde), and Grilled Seafood Platter (grilled Kelong tiger prawns, half-shell scallops, mussels, clams and squid, chimichurri and sriracha mayonnaise).
Alongside the grill, Wildseed Loaded Chips (house-made chips, masala spices, minced beef, guacamole, tomato salsa, nacho cheese) joins as a bar-bites staple, made for sharing over ice-cold beers — a natural match for new local beer partner, Brewlander.
About The Summerhouse
Originally built in the 1930s as a Royal Air Force bungalow, The Summerhouse has been established in Seletar Aerospace Park, Singapore since 2016, operated by Singapore’s leading F&B and lifestyle group, 1-Group. Across its 45,000 sqft compound, ten refreshed spaces are rooted in one idea: Grow, Gather, Glow, Getaway.
The estate encompasses Wildseed Café, a pet-friendly all day café with adjoining Bloom Room for floral activities; Wildseed Bar, a casual and vibrant spot with daily live music and weekend live grills; and Botanico on the upper level, offering wood-fired Italian cuisine with garden-fresh produce, recognised by the SFA as a Farm-to-Table restaurant.
Out on the alfresco areas, the Garden Domes and The Glasshouse host private celebrations, while The Lawn hosts community events alongside Wags & Wander, its pet play area. The charming venue also hosts weddings, solemnisations and corporate events from product launches to family day events.
