Singapore’s cocktail scene now operates at the densest level anywhere in Asia, and the Top 10 Bars in Singapore today showcase the city’s remarkable depth – Indigenous Southeast Asian ingredient research, hotel-bar classical grandeur, DIY speakeasy minimalism and Japanese precision all operating within walking distance of each other. BarMagazine’s Top 10 Bars in Singapore 2026 highlights the venues that best represent this momentum, selected through editorial consensus and insights from across the international bar community.
Singapore put eleven bars across Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 (five in the top 50, six in the extended 51–100), and Jigger & Pony held the city’s highest position at No. 3 in Asia and No. 9 on the World’s 50 Best Bars 2025. Jigger & Pony was also named Bar of the Year on Tatler’s Best 20 Bars Singapore 2026.
1. Jigger & Pony (Tanjong Pagar)
Indra Kantono and Gan Guoyi’s Amara Hotel bar holds No. 3 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 and No. 9 on the World’s 50 Best Bars 2025 – Singapore’s highest-ranked cocktail bar globally. Tatler named it Bar of the Year on the Best 20 Bars Singapore 2026. The menu is published as a magazine that changes annually, each issue built around a theme; head bartender Jerrold Khoo runs a programme balanced between classical technique and Singapore’s hybrid cultural identity. Jigger & Pony remains the standard against which every other Southeast Asian cocktail bar is measured.
2. Offtrack (Boat Quay)
Dean Chew of Darker Than Wax and Daniel O’Connor of Ice Cream Sundays opened Offtrack on North Canal Road in January 2022, and the music-led cocktail bar arrived at No. 23 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025. A custom hi-fi listening system designed by Chew anchors the room; the cocktail list runs cult classics alongside lesser-used spirits and fermented house ingredients, and the music programming rotates between Darker Than Wax and Ice Cream Sundays’ DJ rosters. Offtrack reads as Singapore’s most music-serious cocktail bar.
3. Nutmeg & Clove (Bras Basah)
Colin Chia’s bar at 8 Purvis Street sits at No. 24 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 and on Tatler’s Best 20 Bars Singapore 2026. The menu mines Singapore’s own pantry, including nutmeg, clove, gula melaka, pandan, calamansi and laksa leaf, and rebuilds Singapore Slings, Coffee Negronis and tropical highballs from those ingredients up. Nutmeg & Clove is the most Singaporean cocktail bar in the city by intent and execution.
4. Cat Bite Club (Duxton)
Jesse Vida (formerly head bartender at Atlas) and Gabriel Lowe opened Cat Bite Club at 75 Duxton Road in June 2023, and the agave-and-rice-spirit cocktail bar arrived at No. 44 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025. Childhood friends who launched parallel bartending careers in San Francisco in 2007, the duo’s menu draws on their Mexican and Asian heritage, with a focus on mezcal, tequila, sotol, baijiu and shochu. Bold flavors, aggressive technique, and one of the city’s most personable bar teams. Cat Bite Club climbed the rankings faster than any new Singapore bar in recent memory.
5. Native (Telok Ayer)
Vijay Mudaliar’s Amoy Street bar celebrates ten years in 2026 and continues to define what Indigenous Southeast Asian cocktailing means: ants, lemongrass, jackfruit, bamboo, coconut, and house-distilled regional spirits sourced from small producers across India, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Native sits at No. 45 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 and on Tatler’s Best 20 Bars Singapore 2026. No other bar in Asia has done more to make the region’s own ingredients the point of the drink.
6. Side Door (Duxton)
Husband-and-wife duo Bannie Kang and chef Tryson Quek opened Side Door at 3 Neil Road in 2024 and arrived at No. 53 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 as one of the year’s strongest new entrants. The bar grew out of the couple’s private dining concept inside their HDB flat; the public space pairs Kang’s cocktail program (she was Diageo World Class Bartender of the Year 2019) with snacks built on Kang’s Korean heritage and Quek’s classical training. Side Door is the most exciting new opening in Singapore’s cocktail scene this cycle.
7. Sago House (Duxton Hill)
Jay Gray, Desiree Jane Silva (ex-28 HongKong Street and EC Proof) and George Abishek (formerly Spiffy Dapper) built Sago House at 37 Duxton Hill during Singapore’s 2020 lockdown with the explicit philosophy that everything (bar, glassware, syrups, garnishes) would be made in-house from local ingredients sourced that week. The result sits at No. 56 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 and runs as the most punk, DIY-aesthetic cocktail bar in Singapore. The menu changes constantly; the drinks are unrepeatable.
8. Manhattan (Orchard)
Manhattan opened in 2014 at what was then the Regent Singapore (now Conrad Singapore Orchard) and placed Singapore on the global cocktail map by topping Asia’s 50 Best Bars in 2017 and 2018 and reaching No. 3 on the World’s 50 Best Bars 2018. The on-site rickhouse, the first in any hotel bar globally, produces solera-aged Negronis and barrel-aged cocktails on a scale no Asian bar has matched. East47, the bar-within-a-bar concept opened in 2024, was named Tatler’s Best New Bar Singapore 2025. Manhattan continues to anchor Singapore’s cocktail history.
9. Atlas (Bugis)
Inside the Art Deco Parkview Square tower, Atlas operates one of the most architecturally dramatic cocktail rooms in Asia. The eight-metre Gin Tower holds over 1,300 expressions sourced globally; the rose-gold Champagne Room runs a curated selection of 250 labels. The Martini and Champagne programme is built around theatrical service that other rooms simply cannot replicate. Atlas appears on Tatler’s Best 20 Bars Singapore 2026 and remains a required visit for visitors and a regular destination for locals.
10. Live Twice (Bukit Pasoh)
The Jigger & Pony group’s most aesthetically considered bar channels 1960s Tokyo through a Bukit Pasoh shophouse: dark wood, low-slung lounges, jazz on vinyl, and a cocktail programme built around Japanese spirits, ingredients and bartending culture. Live Twice features on Tatler’s Best 20 Bars Singapore 2026 and operates as the Asian counterpart to a Ginza highball bar – quietly precise, deeply atmospheric.
Singapore’s cocktail identity now reaches in every direction the global bar industry is pulling: Indigenous-ingredient research at Native, hotel-bar classicism at Manhattan and the Connaught-equivalent grandeur of Atlas, the DIY-speakeasy ethic at Sago House, Japanese register at Live Twice. Jigger & Pony anchors the city at the very top of the world list. The bars do the rest. No other Asian city operates at this depth right now.
