Singapore fits a great many serious bars into a small city. The best bars in Singapore gather in the shophouse streets of Tanjong Pagar, Duxton Hill, Telok Ayer and Chinatown, with grand hotel bars around Marina Bay, Orchard and the Raffles, and many lists draw on the island's own pantry, from hawker stalls and herbalists to spices from Tekka Market. Jigger & Pony leads at No. 18 on The 50 Best Bars 2026, with Nutmeg & Clove at No. 38 and the listening bar Offtrack at No. 89 on the 51-100 list. Eleven bars on this list are ranked on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026, four of them in the top 50. FURA, on Amoy Street, won World's Best Bar at the 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. The classics hold their place too: Long Bar at the Raffles, where the Singapore Sling was created in 1915, and Atlas, whose gin tower holds more than 1,300 bottles. These are the thirty-three we would start with.

Creative Director Uno Jang, winner of the 2025 Altos Bartenders' Bartender Award, voted by peers across Asia, runs a research-driven program that held No. 9 globally in 2025 and No. 3 on Asia's 50 Best Bars for seven consecutive years, and stands at No. 18 on The 50 Best Bars 2026. Each menu cycle builds around a central thesis explored through a dozen drinks, and the team's commitment to hospitality matches its technical ambition. The Amara Hotel lobby location belies the seriousness inside. Jigger & Pony operates as both Singapore's benchmark and its export model, see Bartenders of Pony, the Korean dining-bar spinoff launched January 2026. It was a Top 4 finalist for World's Best Cocktail Menu at the 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.

Founder Colin Chia and Head Bartender Sim Sze Wei spin familiar cocktail builds through Singapore's everyday textures, mama shops, herbalists, hawker stalls, without reducing local flavor to theme-park theater. The menu rotates weekly based on market availability, and the approach earned No. 38 on The 50 Best Bars 2026, up from No. 50 in 2025. Nutmeg & Clove captures something essential about Singapore's identity: the meeting point of dozens of culinary traditions, translated into liquid form with confidence and affection. The bar holds No. 12 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.

An eight-meter gin tower holding over 1,300 bottles rises through the Art Deco lobby of Parkview Square, and the sheer visual impact of the collection frames a program that has spent years on the World's 50 Best list. Atlas reimagines classics, G&Ts, martinis, gimlets, through a spirit library that no other bar can replicate, while the Great Gatsby aesthetic of the room provides a setting that justifies the journey to Bugis. Atlas operates on maximalism executed with such conviction that it reads as elegance rather than excess. Singapore's bar culture achieves its density through community rather than competition, bartenders collaborate, move between venues, and share techniques in a market small enough that everyone knows everyone. The result is a scene that improves collectively rather than individually. The next flight to Changi is waiting.

Founders Desiree Jane Silva, Jay Gray, and Abhishek C George relocated to Duxton Hill in October 2023 and continued the program that earned them No. 56 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2025: six rotating classic cocktail styles, weekly menu variations driven by market ingredients, and a staff greeting tradition where every team member says hello to every guest. The shophouse setting carries a conservation-district charm, and the drinks balance classic structure with seasonal improvisation. Sago House proves that simplicity, executed with discipline, scales.

Head Bartender Joash Conceicao and co-founders Dean Chew and Daniel O'Connor built a music-centric listening bar that rose to No. 23 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025, two places above its 2024 position. The program reimagines cocktail classics through a creative lens calibrated to whatever vinyl spins on the turntable. Offtrack treats sound and drink as complementary sensory experiences, and the casual atmosphere disguises a technical program that runs far deeper than the laid-back surface suggests. It currently stands at No. 16 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.


The grand hotel bar of Conrad Singapore Orchard, inspired by the Golden Age of cocktails and 19th-century New York glamour, home to the world's first in-hotel rickhouse for barrel-aging, a Whiskey Glasshouse of 220-plus rare American whiskeys, and the 'Circle of Celebration' cocktail menu launched in September 2026 under Beverage Manager Zana Mohlmann. Twice named Asia's Best Bar; smart casual.

Cat Bite Club is an agave-focused cocktail bar on Duxton Road from Gabriel Lowe and Jesse Vida, the former head bartender at Atlas, exploring the shared ingredient histories of Mexico and Asia through mezcal, tequila and rice spirits. It was No. 77 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2024, No. 44 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025 and No. 86 on the 51-100 list in 2026. It was a Top 4 finalist for World's Best Spirits Selection at the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards in 2025 and 2026.

Vijay Mudaliar pioneered urban foraging in Singapore's cocktail scene and built a three-story Amoy Street shophouse around the philosophy: restaurant at ground level, cocktail bar on the second floor, fermentation lab on the third. Ranked No. 45 on Asia's 50 Best Bars and No. 84 on The World's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2025, Native sources regional spirits and foraged ingredients to produce drinks that taste like Southeast Asia rather than a Southeast Asian interpretation of London or New York. Mudaliar's commitment to sustainability runs from sourcing to service, and the influence on Singapore's broader bar culture is immeasurable. It currently stands at No. 80 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

Bannie Kang, the 2021 Bartenders' Bartender Award winner, and chef-spouse Tryson Quek evolved a home supper club into this inconspicuous Neil Road neighborhood bar that joined the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list at No. 53 in 2025. The program blends mixology and culinary craft in an intimate, minimalist space designed to feel familiar rather than exclusive. Side Door operates on the principle that the best bars feel like extensions of someone's home. Kang's hospitality instinct makes that illusion seamless. It currently stands at No. 57 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

Live Twice is Jigger & Pony Group's mid-century Tokyo-inspired cocktail bar, open since 2019 in a 1930s Bukit Pasoh shophouse with about forty seats, Falcon chairs, Saarinen Tulip stools and a Noguchi Akari lamp. The mood is film noir with house-party warmth. Principal bartender Luca Lulli keeps drinks minimalist and spirit-forward. The current menu takes its four chapters from lines of the 1967 Bond theme the bar is named after: an opening shot, Nikolaschka's Gun; reworked classics such as a Rusty Nail on house-made honey liqueur; originals like the White Bikini, with dark rum, toasted rice and a touch of baijiu; and two easy closers. The yōshoku kitchen serves a Wagyu Katsu Sando and a beef tongue curry rice bowl.

FURA is a cocktail bar on Amoy Street from Christina Rasmussen, formerly head forager at Noma, and bartender Sasha Wijidessa, with a largely plant-based menu that draws on produce from a rooftop microgarden. It entered Asia's 50 Best Bars at No. 42 in 2024 and was No. 95 on the 51-100 list in 2025. At the 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards it won both Best International Restaurant Bar and World's Best Bar.

The Mandarin Oriental Singapore's bar on Level 3, where the counter takes center stage against wraparound skyline windows. The current 'Vol. 7 Modern Localism, The City of Art' menu is fifteen expressions of Singapore's creative landscape, poured alongside the house MO BAR Edition No.1 gin made with local distillery Distillius (dried mango, mandarin, osmanthus). It was No. 36 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2021 and No. 57 on The World's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2022.

Peter Chua designed this twenty-five-seat Tanjong Pagar Road bar as an inhabitable Edward Hopper painting: plush maroon, gilded accents, and a lighting scheme that flatters everyone in the room. The Nighthawk, a vodka and bespoke-syrup espresso martini riff, anchors a program that favours atmosphere as much as flavor. The Bareksten Best Bar Design Award in 2023 confirmed what visitors already knew: Night Hawk is the most visually considered bar in Singapore. Ranked No. 77 on Asia's 50 Best extended list.

Singapore's best-known cocktail speakeasy and one of Asia's most-awarded bars: since 2014, an unmarked 1960s shophouse façade has hidden a room inspired by the New York drinking scene of the early 2000s, prospering on word of mouth while Singapore blossomed into a world-class cocktail city around it. The current 'Now & Then' menu pairs classics with modern creations built around seven fundamental techniques, over American comfort food and a hip-hop soundtrack. It was No. 21 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2021 and No. 59 on The World's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2023.

The lobby-level bar of Shangri-La Singapore's Tower Wing, its design drawn from Singapore's history of trade, colonial allure and tropical beauty, styled as a vintage railway journey through 'dining cars'. Director of beverage Adam Bursik's X menu, launched in 2026, turns familiar flavors sideways across 16 bespoke cocktails, several also offered in non-alcoholic versions in serves like the DJ Pepper and a croissant-riffing Pain au Chocolat, with the list rebuilt every 12 to 15 months. Smart casual. Ranked No.43 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026 and a Top 4 finalist for Best International Hotel Bar at the 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. The bar also holds two PINs from The Pinnacle Guide.

The Ritz-Carlton Millenia's Level 3 bar devotes its menu to the iconic events of the 1960s, a celebration of freedom, expression and individuality, with chapters styled after the decade's TV genres: Film, Sport, News, Music, Drama, Cartoons. Daily oysters-and-champagne from 5:30pm. It was No. 12 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2022 and No. 57 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2024.
Employees Only Singapore is the Amoy Street outpost of the New York speakeasy, serving dinner alongside the bar. It opens nightly at five, running to one in the morning from Sunday to Thursday and to two on Friday and Saturday.

Home of the Singapore Sling, created here in 1915 by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon. The two-story room channels 1920s Malayan plantation life, and the tradition stands: brush your peanut shells straight onto the floor, as the rubber planters did. Today's Sling is built on locally distilled Brass Lion Singapura gin, with a zero-proof version alongside. Walk-ins welcomed.
A Korean cocktail dining bar opened by the Jigger & Pony Group. The menu pairs cocktails drawing on Korean drinking culture with a food offering served until late. It currently stands at No. 52 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

Jerrold Khoo (ex-Jigger & Pony head bartender) and Bai JiaWei's 'third place' on Amoy Street: Flamingo, a daytime coffee-and-wine room, fronts Stay Gold, the Japanese-American cocktail bar hidden behind it, rippled mirror ceilings, dark blue and neon, seventy seats plus the Studio 69 private room. Current menu 'Bartender's Diary Vol. II'; golden hour daily 5-7pm. It was No. 32 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2023 and holds No. 97 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

Yugnes Susela's culture-forward bar, established 24 September 2019 and now on Tanjong Pagar Road, translates the narratives of Singapore's Little India into drinks: staff hand-select spices, herbs and produce from Tekka Market merchants for serves like the clarified Mr. Samy's Curry and the butter-chicken-foam Briyani. The elephant stands for wisdom, memory and community. No. 58 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.
A cocktail bar in the New Bahru development from chef-owner Keirin Buck and The Lo & Behold Group, and an offshoot of the Le Bon Funk wine bars. The drinks list covers classic and seasonal cocktails, served alongside produce-led food. The room is built around a hi-fi system and styled as a casual living-room space. The latest lists place it at No. 90 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

Jigger & Pony Group's effortlessly classy room in a 1930s Bukit Pasoh heritage shophouse, classic cocktails reimagined with a Southeast Asian perspective, under group bar program director Aki Eguchi. The house Gibson is served tableside at -15°C with pickled pomelo, cucumber and a smoked quail egg; happy hour runs 6-8pm daily. It was No. 15 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2019 and No. 66 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2021.

A Ginza-style cocktail bar and gallery led by Daiki Kanetaka, built around bespoke drinks made to each guest's preference. The back bar emphasizes Spanish sherries, French Calvados and Armagnac, and rare vintage rums. The bar also runs quarterly guest chef and event collaborations.
A cocktail bar and restaurant from the team behind Nutmeg & Clove, named after the classic Last Word cocktail. The program focuses on classic cocktails served alongside simple Japanese dishes, in a minimalist first-floor room on Purvis Street.
Shin Gi Tai is a Japanese-style cocktail bar on the second floor of a Telok Ayer Street shophouse, opened in 2015 by Anthony Zhong, who trained at Coffee Bar K in Ginza and was a founding bartender at Jigger & Pony. There is no printed menu: guests describe what they like and the bartender builds a drink to order, served over hand-carved ice. The back bar carries a wide range of Japanese whisky, bar snacks run from gyoza to mala chicken, and seats are by reservation through WhatsApp.

The Other Room is a speakeasy-style bar hidden behind black velvet drapes on the ground floor of the Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel on Orchard Road. It opened in 2016 with Dario Knox as master bartender, in a Prohibition-era room. Its signature is cask finishing: the team finishes more than 100 spirits in house, in barrels that once held wine, sherry or port, and uses them in timeless classics and bolder house creations. The back bar adds whiskies from around the world and agave spirits, and tapas such as beetroot hummus and ribeye are served through the night. Renowned guest bartenders visit often. It made Asia's 50 Best Bars three times, highest at No. 35 in 2017, and was on the 51-100 list in 2021.

A cocktail parlour of rare treasures and untold stories on Level 2 of Crockfords Tower at Resorts World Sentosa, a theater of cocktails and fine spirits with a whisky lean, where exclusive experiences unfold behind closed doors. In the house's words: some come for a drink, others for a discovery, but everyone leaves with a story.

Jigger & Pony Group's Japanese-lifestyle bar in the CBD, inspired by the music, fashion and creative subcultures of modern Japan, four zones in one Level 2 venue: the craft-focused Byōbu Bar, the lively Tasting Commons, the intimate Bar Mixtape and the After Hours Salon. Bar manager Sylvia Chong and principal bartender Chris Foo pour Suntory-soaked serves from the Harmony Old Fashioned to seasonal sakura specials.

Praelum is a wine bar and bistro in a Duxton Hill shophouse, open since 2011. It keeps a walk-in cellar of around 1,000 bottles across some 350 labels, refreshes its list weekly, and its sommeliers put together flights of three or five wines for each table. The team also runs wine classes and tasting events, including a South African wine afternoon on 17 October 2026.
Players Table is a 21-seat cocktail room reached through WitBier, a beer bar on Aliwal Street, past the pool table and through an unmarked black door. It opened in April 2026, set up by bartender Jasper Tan, formerly of Cin Cin and MOGA, with a partner from the same MOGA team. The menu of twelve signatures builds each drink around two named ingredients, such as pandan and coconut, sencha and yuzu or espresso and Guinness, and a dealer's choice changes weekly.
Puffy Bois is a cocktail and pizza bar on Duxton Road, run by Sam and Zul after moving from its first home on Bali Lane. The short cocktail list includes the What What, a choice of gin, mezcal or dark rum with a juice of four citrus fruits, alongside natural wine and canned beer, and pizza is sold by the slice or whole with chilli oil on the side.
Writers Bar sits in a corner of the Grand Lobby at Raffles Singapore and takes its theme from the authors associated with the hotel, from Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad to Somerset Maugham. The room is set around a brass counter, and the list of classic-leaning cocktails is inspired by writers including J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. From 9 September 2026 the bar runs an aperitivo hour from Tuesday to Thursday, 7pm to 9pm.
These 33 are the starting point. The full BarMagazine directory covers every listed bar in Singapore, with a map, filters by bar type, and new openings as we verify them.