Moutai House is turning a 1919 riverside landmark into baijiu HQ

The building spent seven decades filling ships with fresh water. Its next job is considerably stronger.

Start on the roof. Moutai House takes all three storeys of the Fullerton Waterboat House now open, and the floor most worth an evening is Sohaus at the top, developed with Nutmeg Collective, the group behind Nutmeg & Clove: 16 cocktails and a view over the bay. The compromise is that the whole building is a showroom for one brand of baijiu, Kweichow Moutai, so go if you're curious about the spirit or keen on the bar team, and look elsewhere if you wanted a neutral night out by the river.

The building is half the appeal. Swan & Maclaren's 1919 Art Deco landmark at the mouth of the river supplied fresh water to incoming ships until 1990 and has housed restaurants and bars ever since.

The ground floor is the Moutai Experiential Centre, a gallery and shop on the drink's history and production, with more than 300 labels running from everyday bottles to rarities valued at up to S$1 million. There's a birth-year collection with vintages back to 1965, the year of Singapore's independence, and a Singapore Discovery Collection bottle whose red palette nods to the Vanda Miss Joaquim. The birth-year shelf is the gift idea; the S$1 million bottles are for looking at.

The second floor is Imperial Treasure Moutai House, with the Singapore-founded group cooking Huaiyang and Guizhou dishes with Moutai pairings. Up top, the bar team's credentials are current: Nutmeg & Clove was No. 12 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026 and has since made The World's 50 Best Bars 2026. Sohaus splits its 16 drinks evenly, eight built on Moutai and eight classics reworked with it, which is a sensible way to introduce a spirit most people have only met as a banquet toast.

The restaurant, Imperial Treasure Moutai House on the third floor, is taking reservations and lists its hours as 11am–3pm and 6–10pm daily on Imperial Treasure's site; moutaihouse.sg itself gives no opening date and no prices for the bar. Watch moutaihouse.sg for the date, then book the roof for sunset; Sohaus is announced as a Tuesday-to-Saturday bar, so don't build a Sunday plan around it.

Good to know Moutai House is at 3 Fullerton Road, about five minutes' walk from Raffles Place MRT (Exit G or H). It is open: Imperial Treasure Moutai House (#03-01, tel 8666 9778) lists 11am–3pm and 6–10pm daily and takes reservations; moutaihouse.sg gives no hours for the Experiential Centre or Sohaus, so check sohaus.co before a special trip. Previously announced hours: 10am–10pm daily for the Experiential Centre, Tuesday to Saturday 5pm–midnight for Sohaus.

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Moutai House | The Fullerton Waterboat House, 3 Fullerton Road, Singapore 049215