$12.90 donburi, Monday to Friday, at Orchard Central — cross at Koek Road and you’re here. Welcome to the neighbourhood.
Weekdays 11:30 AM – 3:00 PM · #04-01 Orchard Central, 181 Orchard Road




#04-01 Orchard Central, 181 Orchard Road — the floor just above Uniqlo.
From Orchard Point
From Somerset MRT
Modern Japanese rice bowls, weekdays 11:30 AM – 3:00 PM at Orchard Central.
Soy-glazed chicken, onsen egg, our signature seasoned rice.
Mentaiko, roasted seaweed, seared salmon.
Crispy salmon katsu over Japanese curry.
Golden karaage, creamy egg salad tartar, pickled onions.
Torched salmon on fluffy shredded tamago, yuzu sauce.
Simmered beef and beef tendon. Comfort in a bowl.
Hearty, comforting, entirely meat-free.
Sliced beef, onsen egg, house-pickled radish. The one-dollar upgrade.
Miso soup, green salad, gyoza, mochi, and green tea. Any bowl. That’s the whole pitch.
Out your lobby at Orchard Point, cross at Koek Road, into Orchard Central. Back at your desk before anyone notices you left early.
Plenty of seating — no hovering with a tray. Works for a solo reset or a business lunch that needs to impress without a claim form drama.
Vegetarian options at the same $12.90. Rice bowls since 2012 — we've had time to get them right.

Happy hour is how we get to know each other. Ask us about it on your way out.
The Orchard lunch scene is big. Food courts if you like queuing, cafes if you like waiting, and a long tail of places that are fine. Fine is fine. But if you’re searching for the best lunch in Orchard on a weekday budget, the math points to a $12.90 donburi at Orchard Central — a proper Japanese restaurant lunch without the proper-restaurant bill.
Tanuki Raw has been making donburi since 2012 — long enough to be called famous for them, long enough to have gotten the rice right. The weekday lunch promotion puts that same kitchen behind a $12.90 bowl, Monday to Friday, 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Add $6 and it’s a full lunch set: miso soup, green salad, gyoza, mochi, green tea.
Team lunch, lunch meeting, or a quiet solo bowl — there’s plenty of seating, so a group lunch doesn’t mean hovering over strangers. Vegetarian options sit on the same $12.90 menu. And when the meeting runs long: we serve lunch specials on all our donburi daily until 3 PM.
Just across the street. Cross Orchard Road at the Koek Road intersection, lift to Level 4, and we're at #04-01 — one floor above Uniqlo. You'll spend longer waiting for the lift.
A short walk along Orchard Road to Orchard Central, 181 Orchard Road. Lift to Level 4, unit #04-01 — sheltered nearly the whole way.
Monday to Friday, 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Late lunch crowd, we see you.
$12.90 for any weekday lunch donburi. Add $6 for the full set — miso soup, salad, gyoza, mochi, green tea.
Yes — the Vegetable Kakiage Curry Don, same $12.90.
Yes, and you should — reserve here. Plenty of seating, but new-building lunch rushes are a known phenomenon.