Jigger & Pony

Eighteenth in the world is a slip. Most bars would frame the certificate.

Jigger & Pony is the cocktail bar for a celebration, a first proper cocktail or a date with something to say, because you can arrive knowing nothing and still drink well. The house idea, in the group's words, is an "improved and true" take on the classics with convivial hospitality: tell them what you usually like and let them translate. The only trap is the booking page, since the same group runs a small empire of bars nearby.

The numbers

The bar world loves a ranking, so here they are. Jigger & Pony was fifth on the World's 50 Best Bars in 2024 and ninth in 2025, and in October 2026 it landed at No. 18. That's a slip, but it was still the only Singapore bar in the 2026 world top 20. Closer to home nothing has changed. In July 2026 it came ninth on Asia's 50 Best Bars, its eighth straight year in the regional top ten, and once again took the title of Best Bar in Singapore. Co-founder Indra Kantono picked up the Industry Icon Award that night.

Where it is now

It began on Amoy Street and now lives inside the Amara Hotel on Tanjong Pagar Road. The room has had a major overhaul with the signature drinks left alone, which is the right way round: the yuzu whisky sour helped make the bar's name, and it is still the first order.

The menuzines

The menus are the thing to read while you wait. Jigger & Pony calls them "menuzines": magazine-style lists researched over several months and changed regularly. A 2023 edition called Identity profiled producers, including Xavier Tan, known as Singapore's Bee Man. A later edition, Bloom, ran to more than two dozen cocktails plus non-alcoholic drinks and sharing punches, among them a Soursop Colada that slipped baijiu in alongside rum and yoghurt, a Strawberry Matcha Cloud topped with matcha cream and an alcohol-free Osmanthus & Tea, so the non-drinker wasn't stuck with soda water. Menus turn over, so treat those as a flavour of the place rather than an order sheet. The bar snacks are worth a look too, including a bikini sandwich with burrata, serrano ham and black truffle.

Book the right bar

The group's other rooms nearby include Gibson, Caffe Fernet, Live Twice, Humpback and BOP, its Korean-inspired cocktail-dining room. If you are booking online, make sure it says Jigger & Pony before you confirm; it is an easy anniversary to spend in the wrong room. Book through the venue's own reservations page. Tanjong Pagar MRT is a short walk away, and one round becomes two quite easily.

Good to know Jigger & Pony is at the Amara Hotel, 165 Tanjong Pagar Road, a short walk from Tanjong Pagar MRT. Book through the venue's own reservations page, and check current hours and menu on the official site before you go.

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Jigger & Pony | Amara Singapore, 165 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore 088539 | Nearest MRT: Tanjong Pagar