Spago by Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Puck's California kitchen on Level 57 of Marina Bay Sands, with Singapore riffs on the plate: a sea bream laksa and a kaya toast that has met foie gras. Ask for a skyline seat.
- Where: Marina Bay
- Price: S$60 and above
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The Whiskey Library & Jazz Club
Red velvet, a golden elephant and more than 1,000 whiskies in a Jacques Garcia room in Little India. Book Thursday to Saturday, when the house quartet plays.
- Where: Little India
- Price: S$60 and above
Cool Cats
Behind an unmarked wooden door at the old NCO Club on Beach Road, a 60-seat room built for listening to a band. A better date than another dinner. Book, and arrive before the first set.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: S$60 and above
Little Island Brewing Co
A brewery at the end of the island, with 20 copper taps, a 15-hour brisket and the sea at the bottom of the road. It is ulu by any measure, and that is the reason to go, not the excuse.
- Where: Changi
- Price: S$30–60
Druggists
Twenty-three craft beer taps in a Jalan Besar shophouse shared with a Chinese druggists' association. Serious list, kopitiam chairs. Start the evening here; a weeknight is best.
- Where: Jalan Besar
- Price: S$30–60
Praelum Wine Bistro
Walk into the cellar, choose from 350-odd labels, and let a sommelier-led team explain what you picked. Duxton Hill's wine classroom, with escargot and one-for-one corkage.
- Where: Tanjong Pagar
- Price: S$60 and above
Wine RVLT
Carpenter Street's low-intervention pioneer: around 150 labels, stemless glasses and chicken nuggets with house sriracha. Serious about the wine, and about nothing else.
- Where: Clarke Quay
- Price: S$60 and above
Southbridge
Five floors above the Boat Quay menu-wavers, a shophouse rooftop with the river bend, Parliament House and a half-dozen dressed-up oysters. For two, not for a birthday.
- Where: Boat Quay
- Price: S$30–60
Lantern
A rooftop at The Fullerton Bay Hotel named after the red lamps that once lit Clifford Pier, with the bay switching on in front of you. Go at sunset, book ahead; the pool is for hotel guests.
- Where: Marina Bay
- 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
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
LeVeL33
A working brewery on the 33rd floor of Marina Bay Financial Centre, hoisted up by crane and now in the Guinness book. Ask for the terrace; the beer is the reason to go.
- Where: Marina Bay
- Price: S$30–60
Bars by mood
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.
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