ATLAS
Parkview Square's Jazz Age lobby bar, for a date or a visitor who needs impressing. Let the staff choose your gin, look up at the tower, and leave the shorts at home after 5pm.
- Where: Bugis
- Price: S$30–60
Bars for conversation
For a night of talking rather than shouting: grand rooms, bars with a local story, music or wine. Choose the mood, book one bar and stay put.
When the point is conversation, one well-chosen bar beats a crawl. Lists move on, so check the current menu and how reservations work before you go, and order from tonight's card rather than an old recommendation. These are drinks plans, so adults only.
Read the full guide: One good bar, a whole evening.
Nutmeg & Clove
The Purvis Street bar that tells Singapore's story in cocktails, now with drinks named after what you say when the bill comes. Bring the friend who thinks the Sling is the whole story.
- Where: Bugis
- Price: S$30–60
Native
No classic cocktails, only the region: Thai rum, Sri Lankan arrack, foraged herbs and, famously, ants. The Amoy Street bar for a curious pair, not a birthday crowd.
- Where: Chinatown
- Price: S$30–60
Live Twice
A Bukit Pasoh dive bar reborn as a 1960s Tokyo cocktail lounge: about 40 seats, original Falcon armchairs and a four-ingredient rule. A date bar; book the armchairs.
- Where: Bukit Pasoh
- Price: S$30–60
Offtrack
A listening bar on North Canal Road built around two restored Klipsch La Scalas, now No. 16 in Asia. Come for the records, and book dinner early; the kitchen stops first.
- Where: Clarke Quay
- Price: S$30–60
Le Bon Funk
A natural-wine bar from a Burnt Ends alumnus, on Club Street and in Holland Village, for two people splitting a bottle. Order the whole chicken the moment you sit down.
- Where: Across Singapore
- Price: S$60 and above