NoMad is coming to Orchard Road, and it's bringing a cabaret bar

Most hotels have a bar. NoMad is a bar with some rooms upstairs.

Unless you need a staycation, NoMad's arrival is about where you'll drink on Orchard Road, and the one to wait for is The Tropicana Club, a cabaret-inspired cocktail bar on a street that mostly goes quiet when the malls shut. A Hilton press release from June puts the brand's first Asia-Pacific hotel on Orchard Road in late 2026. There is still no opening day, and no menus or prices for the restaurants and bars, so bookmark it rather than plan around it.

NoMad is better known for what happens downstairs than for the rooms. Hilton holds a majority stake in Sydell Group, the company behind it, which is why this one comes under the Hilton umbrella. The building is a 19-storey property with an infinity pool and a sky terrace.

There are four food and drink concepts. NoMad Grill is a New York-style chophouse and brasserie. The Tropicana Club is the cabaret bar, which is not a sentence Orchard Road gets to say very often. Lù Bar is a poolside aperitivo spot. And Sticky Fingers does gourmet soft-serve by day before turning into a cocktail bar at night, which may be the most Singapore idea in the building.

The drinks credentials are serious on paper. Leo Robitschek, who runs bars and hospitality development globally for Sydell, is attached, alongside global culinary director Josh Harnden and Singapore's director of culinary Lorenz Hoja. NoMad's New York bar programme made its name on serious cocktails in a grand-hotel setting; Singapore's bar scene is competitive enough to show quickly whether that travels.

Room rates and booking dates will be on the hotel's own site once announced. For everyone else, watch for the opening date and keep a dressed-up Orchard evening in reserve for The Tropicana Club.

Good to know On Orchard Road (Faber House site, per TheSmartLocal). No opening date or menus yet; check Hilton's NoMad pages for reservations.

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