Singapore has only two bars in The World's 50 Best this year

Singapore used to own this list. This year it rents two seats in the top 50 and one in the overflow.

Of the Singapore names on this year's World's 50 Best Bars, Nutmeg & Clove is the one to book: it climbed 12 places to No. 38 and has a new menu to show for it. Jigger & Pony, at No. 18, is still the city's highest-ranked bar, and Offtrack makes the extended list at No. 89. Hong Kong's Bar Leone keeps the world title for a second year, the first Asian bar to hold it twice. Two bars in the top 50 is a quiet year for Singapore, and a quiet year can mean easier tables at the places that made it, so book before the next list sends the travelling crowds back.

Nutmeg & Clove is the good-news story. The Purvis Street bar was No. 50 in 2025 after dropping from 28th, and has bounced back. Its new menu, Singapura, Oh Singapura, is a comic-book-style list of 12 drinks inspired by Singlish expressions, which is the right bet for a bar that has always leaned into local flavour.

Jigger & Pony, inside Amara Singapore, was fifth two years ago, ninth last year and is eighteenth now, after a major overhaul that kept its signatures, including a Singapore Sling made with lapsang souchong tea and rhubarb. Slipping nine places and still being Singapore's highest-ranked bar is a very particular kind of problem.

Offtrack is the newcomer and Singapore's only new entry on the 51 to 100 list. For a city that used to dominate these lists, a fresh name breaking in matters more than one bar's slide. And falling off a list isn't the same as getting worse: Atlas and Analogue were both ranked in 2024 and aren't named this year.

One year of rankings is a mood, not a verdict. The next regional list will show whether this is a dip or a trend; book weekend evenings ahead either way.

Good to know Jigger & Pony is inside Amara Singapore on Tanjong Pagar Road; Nutmeg & Clove is on Purvis Street. Book weekend evenings ahead through each bar's own channels.

Want more of what’s new? Here’s everything else on the list.

Jigger & Pony; Nutmeg & Clove; Offtrack | Tanjong Pagar