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
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Thoughtful evenings and afternoons for two.
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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
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
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
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
Peranakan Museum
Take it in order: the 'What is Peranakan?' question on the ground floor is what makes the third-floor jewellery worth the climb. Small, very pretty and open late on Fridays.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Under S$30
National Gallery Singapore
Free for Singaporeans and PRs, S$20 for everyone else, open daily 10am to 7pm. The big Southeast Asia wing is shut until late 2027; the two monuments and the Singapore collection are not.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Under S$30
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Dates with something to talk about
The easiest date is one that arrives with its own subject. Choose something to look at or do first, then a table where the conversation can carry on.
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