YC Dining & Bar is a western restaurant and bar at #01-45 Vision Exchange on Venture Drive, serving the Jurong East area since 2021. The team's founding idea is baked into the name: food and drinks catered to Your Choice, with a menu wide enough to please whichever craving walks through the door.
The kitchen leans into generous, sociable food. A YC Pork Knuckle with homemade granny smith apple slaw anchors the appetiser list, while the Meat Platter pairs a 300g pork knuckle with rosemary lamb sausage, kurobuta pork toulouse sausage, chicken wings and satay. Pizzas run from a classic Margherita to a house Smoked Duck Pizza topped with duck sauce and bonito flakes, and lighter plates include truffle mushroom soup and salads tossed in homemade vinaigrettes.
Over at the bar, draught beer and fresh Japanese oysters headline, with the house carbonara rounding out the featured dishes. Diners on Google regularly praise both the food and the service, calling it a standout around Jurong East — and the restaurant's own advice is simple: good food and service draws a crowd, so best to call and reserve.
On the ground floor of Vision Exchange along Venture Drive, YC Dining & Bar serves the Jurong East area as a western restaurant and bar with a straightforward philosophy: food and drinks catered to Your Choice. The initials in the name are the idea. Since opening in 2021, the team has set out with one goal in mind — providing an enjoyable dining experience to the Singapore area — and has built a menu broad enough that everyone at the table gets what they came for, whether that is a plate of wings, a whole pork knuckle, a pizza or something cold from the tap.
That range shows up across the whole menu, which moves easily between bar snacks and sharing platters, soups and salads, pizzas and pastas, with the bar pouring draught beer and serving fresh Japanese oysters alongside.
The appetiser list reads like a greatest-hits album of bar food. Chicken satay arrives with homemade satay sauce, cucumbers and onions; cheesy nachos come with homemade tomato salsa and nacho cheese sauce; spam fries are dunked in the house YC chili sauce. Chilli calamari is served with homemade tartar sauce, and there are ebi tempura, oyster mushroom fritters and charred edamame for grazers. Fry lovers get a whole lane to themselves: straight-cut fries, parmesan truffle fries with homemade truffle mayo, and a loaded chilli cheese fries topped with homemade pork pomodoro sauce, cheese sauce and jalapeno.
The dish that anchors it all is the YC Pork Knuckle, served with a homemade granny smith apple slaw. For groups, the Meat Platter gathers a 300g pork knuckle with rosemary lamb sausage, kurobuta pork toulouse sausage, YC chicken wings and five sticks of chicken satay — and the kitchen will upgrade the knuckle to a full 700g for serious appetites. A smaller Sausage Platter pairs a chicken cheese sausage with the rosemary lamb and kurobuta pork toulouse sausages.
The pizza selection runs from a classic Margherita to a Meat Lover loaded with smoked duck, honey baked ham, chicken, lamb and pork sausage. In between sit the Hawaiian with honey baked ham and pineapple, a Shrimp Marinara with onions and capsicum, a Classic Italian Salami, a Cheesy Burger Pizza built on a sauteed beef patty with dijonnaise mustard and ketchup, and the house Smoked Duck Pizza — onion, capsicum and chili under duck sauce and bonito flakes.
Lighter plates hold their own. Truffle mushroom soup comes with homemade croutons; the Berry Fruit Salad tosses mesclun, cherry tomato, strawberry, blueberry and orange in a homemade raspberry vinaigrette; the smoked duck salad wears a chimichurri vinaigrette; and the Classic Caesar is finished with bacon bits, a sous-vide egg, homemade croutons and parmesan cheese. The kitchen's carbonara rounds out the pasta side, and it is one of three dishes the restaurant puts front and centre — alongside draught beer and fresh Japanese oysters.
Dine-in runs every day of the week from 11am to 10:30pm, with the menu listed from 11am until 9pm, so it pays to plan main courses earlier in the evening. Online ordering is available through the website for nights in, and the restaurant keeps an active presence on Instagram and Facebook. Events are announced on the site too — none scheduled at the moment, but worth keeping an eye on.
Diners have been kind. Google reviewers describe an 'unassuming and wonderful find' with 'great variety and fine value', high-quality presentation, inventive food and affordable prices. Another calls it 'legitimately the best restaurant around Jurong East area', praising both the quality of the food and the service. The house advice sums up the practical takeaway: good food and service draws a crowd, so it is best to call 8138 1766 and reserve a table.
Whether the plan is a pork knuckle and a cold draught after work, oysters and pizza with friends, or a platter for the whole table to argue over, YC Dining & Bar delivers generous, unfussy western cooking that has made it a quiet standout in Singapore's west.