The Top 68 Places to Drink Near The Connoisseur Divan
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Burlap sacks on the walls, porcelain behind the bar, and a cocktail menu organized like a history syllabus: Trading Post, Crown Colony, Banana Republic, and on through to the present. Nutmeg & Clove is a cocktail bar that uses Singapore's past as its entire creative brief, so ordering feels less like choosing a drink and more like picking an era. It holds a spot on both Asia's and the World's 50 Best Bars lists.
- 50 Best #50 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #24 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
- Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 2. Native
Pan-Asian Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #84 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- 50 Best #45 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best #95 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Restaurant Bar
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- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- 50 Best #44 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · World’s Best Spirits Selection
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- 50 Best #9 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award 2025 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #3 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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Rank 9. Employees Only
Cocktail Bar
The pressed tin ceiling and a resident fortune teller in the entryway signal that this is, in spirit, a Manhattan speakeasy that somehow materialized on Amoy Street. It's a cocktail bar that takes the classics seriously, then quietly does something unexpected to each of them. The kitchen sends out bacon-wrapped lamb chops and bone marrow poppers for anyone who skips dinner. Difford's Guide rates it five stars.
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The smell of leather and Cuban tobacco announces this whisky and cigar bar before you're fully through the door. The Pacific Cigar Company, the sole formal distributor of Cuban cigars across Asia Pacific, runs the place, so the humidors are serious and the back bar holds around a hundred bottles, nearly all single malt Scotch. Members keep their bottles in dedicated lockers, which tells you the kind of crowd it draws.
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Rank 12. Coffee Bar K
Cocktail Bar
The back bar at this cocktail bar runs deep enough that "what are you having?" becomes a genuine philosophical question. Coffee Bar K has been around forever by Singapore standards, and the spirits list, Pétrus included, would cause serious distress to anyone on a budget. The cocktail menu is vast without feeling unfocused, and the head bartender handles every persuasion with the calm of someone who has seen it all.
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Rank 13. Orihara Shoten
Japanese
Wall-mounted fridges packed with sake stretch the length of the room at this tiny stand-up bar, Singapore's sole Japanese-style sake joint. It's a sibling to a Tokyo original, which shows: the range runs deep into plum wines and shochus, and the snack menu leans into proper otsumami, the kind of thing you'd actually eat alongside a pour. Staff know the list cold, which helps when you're choosing between fifty-odd plum wines.
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best New International Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Uno Jang
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- Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Uno Jang
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Uno Jang
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
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Rank 19. Origin Bar
Cocktail Bar
The name nods to gin, but Origin is a rum bar at heart, with 75 expressions on the menu and a cocktail list organized around five Singapore districts. It sits in the lobby of the Shangri-La, which gives it a certain hotel-bar grandeur, though the drinks stay firmly grounded in place. Asia's 50 Best Bars has it at number 60. Dress like you know where you are.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- 50 Best #60 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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Rank 20. Caffe Fernet
Italian Cocktail Bar
Vaulted ceilings and arched ironwork give this waterfront Italian cocktail bar the mood of a golden-age European train station, which feels about right for a spot gazing straight at Marina Bay Sands. The team behind Jigger and Pony runs an all-day operation, so the aperitivo hour bleeds comfortably into however long you planned to stay. The open-air tables out front make daytime drinking feel almost virtuous.
- Difford's Guide 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Restaurant Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Uno Jang
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Rank 22. Brewerkz
Beer Bar
The in-house microbrewery sitting in the corner is the whole point here. Brewerkz is a sprawling beer bar and hall in the Clarke Quay chaos, with pool tables inside and fan-cooled riverside seating out front. Around forty international bottles share the menu with a weekly rotating cask ale, which is not something you stumble across often in Singapore. Food and cocktails exist, but nobody's pretending that's why you came.
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A horseshoe bar in a whitewashed room with brushed concrete and a single lightbox letter board on the wall is either a bold design statement or a very confident shrug. At Fancy, a cocktail bar on North Canal Road, it's both. In a city that tends toward the ornate, the spare interior puts all the weight on what's in the glass, which suits the competition-pedigreed bar team just fine.
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Rank 25. Skinny's Lounge
Dive Bar
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Rank 27. Manhattan
Cocktail Bar
- Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – APAC
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A cocktail bar on Tanjong Pagar Road where the menu reads less like a drinks list and more like a dare. Tofu, togarashi, roast potato skin, and salted liquorice all show up in the shakers, alongside modernist classics like the Smokey Old Bastard, served in a mason jar with a straight face. The kind of place that rewards going in curious rather than cautious, and where asking the bartender to just pick something tends to end well.
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Seventy-odd floors above Singapore, this cocktail bar at the top of Swissôtel The Stamford watches the city sprawl all the way to the horizon through floor-to-ceiling windows. The lights, the freeways, the towers below give it a faint Vegas energy, softened nightly by live music. The drinks list is serious, and the bar snacks lean toward the luxurious end of the menu.
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Rank 31. D.Bespoke
Japanese Cocktail Bar
Barrels of cocktails aging under a solera system for seven years sit at the end of the bar, which tells you immediately what kind of operation this is. D.Bespoke is a Japanese cocktail bar on Bukit Pasoh Road that runs on ritual and precision, all deep armchairs and the quiet confidence of a Ginza establishment that took a wrong turn and ended up somewhere better. Sit at the bar; the private room in the back misses the point.
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Rank 32. The Pump Room
Beer Bar
A microbrewery bar in Clarke Quay where the decor seems to have taken a sharp left turn: black velvet, glitter balls, chandeliers, and silvered glass surround a large angular bar, and live bands fill the room most nights. The house brews run from lager to porter stout, with a rotating cast of guest beers alongside. The patio does respectable rattan-and-river-views if you prefer your pint al fresco.
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Rank 34. Cafe Iguana
Tex-Mex Mexican
A tequila bar at Riverside Point leaning hard into the theme, with mariachi on the speakers, agave-themed memorabilia covering the walls, and a menu listing over a hundred 100-percent agave tequilas alongside thirteen mezcals. The Margaritas come from a machine, except the premium ones, which arrive by hand (a meaningful distinction). Burritos and tequila prawns keep things grounded in Tex-Mex territory if you need something to eat.
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Rank 35. Bitters and Love
Cocktail Bar
Look for the Robot Coffee graffiti on Telok Ayer Street and you've found the door. Inside, this cocktail bar runs long and narrow, with chequer-tiled floors and raw cement walls that lean into a speakeasy mood. The real menu is a conversation: tell the bartender your spirit and whether you want something sour, spicy, or sweet, and they take it from there. A written cocktail list exists for the less adventurous, and no judgment is passed.
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The cigar smoke hits you before you find your seat, which is partly the point. This speakeasy-style bar occupies a converted shophouse above a hawker spot in Chinatown, and locating it is half the ritual: ignore the yellow plastic chairs downstairs, walk past the shuttered cigar shop sign, and keep going up. Inside, interconnecting rooms fill out with bookshelves of whisky and the obligatory Che Guevara portraits keeping watch.
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Rank 37. ATLAS
Art Deco Cocktail Bar
The three-storey back bar tower holds over 1,100 gins, which tells you everything about the ambition here before you've even sat down. Atlas is a cocktail bar inside Singapore's art deco "Gotham City" office building, all brass and velvet and soaring ceilings that make you feel like a minor character in a 1920s heist film. The kind of place where you order carefully and dress accordingly.
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Tucked behind a curtain in the Marriott Tang Plaza lobby, this Prohibition-themed cocktail bar signs its tiny round tables with the names of famous rum runners, which is either charming or a history lesson depending on your mood. House-finished spirits aged in small barrels are the thing the bar is built around. Sit in a banquette if you like a challenge, or perch at the bar where someone actually knows what they're doing.
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Rank 39. Lantern
Cocktail Bar
A rooftop pool bar perched atop The Fullerton Bay Hotel, with Marina Bay spread out below and enough greenery to make you forget you're on a concrete tower. Angular umbrellas and banquette seating keep things comfortable well into the evening, and a live band turns up often enough to feel like a bonus rather than a given. The cocktail list balances vintage classics and contemporary pours, which covers a lot of ground without overpromising.
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A basement cocktail bar tucked beneath a colonial shophouse in Chinatown, with white leather sofas, a glowing resin bar, and a wall of whisky heavy enough to earn its own library card. Members stash personal bottles in dedicated lockers, which sets the tone nicely. It skews serious about spirits without taking itself too seriously, and the room is small enough that the bartenders actually know what they're doing with your order.
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Rank 41. Jibiru
Japanese Beer Bar
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Rank 42. No.5 Emerald Hill
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 43. Orgo
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 44. The Long Bar
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 45. Level 33
Beer Bar
The copper brewing vats are the first thing you notice stepping out of the dedicated lift on the thirty-third floor, followed by the malty smell of an active mash. Level 33 is a microbrewery bar perched above Marina Bay, with a wraparound terrace and views that make the city look like a scale model. Office workers fill the place at lunch; evenings are quieter and considerably more vertical than most pints get brewed.
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A classic British post box, lacquered red, sits dead center in the bar as a nod to the General Post Office that once occupied this colonial waterfront building. Post Bar is the main hotel bar of the Fullerton, all marble, gilding, tall flowers, and long drapes, with a champagne bar tucked to one side. The crowd has largely migrated to the flashier sister property next door, which leaves this one feeling pleasantly unhurried.
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Rank 47. The Black Swan
Cocktail Bar
A U-shaped granite bar anchors the ground floor of a heritage art deco building in the CBD, where the after-work crowd files in for beer, wine, and a whisky list long enough to cause decision fatigue. The cocktail menu is short, leans whisky-heavy, and runs a little sweet. Upstairs, the Powder Room has the more atmospheric lounge setup if you're staying past the first round.
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A pool bar on the fifth floor of the Mandarin Oriental that somehow frames a cleaner view of Marina Bay Sands and the Singapore Flyer than most rooftops twice the height. The stepped layout catches a breeze even when the city is at its most suffocating, and the cabanas, daybeds, and angular umbrellas lean closer to Miami than Singapore, which the crowd seems not to have fully noticed yet.
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Rank 49. Mezza 9
Cocktail Bar
A long bar anchors one end, burgundy club chairs and reading lamps fill the middle, and a glassed-off smoking room with cigars and international newspapers occupies the other, which tells you most of what you need to know about this hotel cocktail bar tucked behind the restaurant on the Grand Hyatt's mezzanine. The 50 fruit martinis on the menu are less alarming than they sound; order around them and the bar does its job quietly and well.
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The Bloody Mary menu runs to several variations here, which tells you something about what kind of bar this is. Tucked into the ground floor of the St. Regis, the Astor Bar does luxury hotel drinking in the old colonial register: red leather, dark wood, art deco brasswork, and the general air of a gentlemen's club that never quite closed. The house Chili Padi Mary arrives spiced with lemongrass, ginger, and chilli.
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The entrance is a black curtain behind Uma Uma Ramen, and the stairs drop you into a dimly lit cocktail bar that makes Orchard Road feel like another country. The Japanese minimalist design carries through to the bar snacks, where stingray fins make an appearance alongside whatever's in your glass. People call it a speakeasy, though there's no password and no velvet rope theatre, just a curtain between you and the noodles.
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A portrait of Brad Pitt watches over the bar at this Wolfgang Puck sibling, and nobody can quite explain why. The cocktail bar sits inside the Marina Bay Sands shopping complex, which means fluorescent retail chaos just beyond the open frontage, and smoked glass, dark wood, and candlelight within. The contrast shouldn't work as well as it does. A serious beer list and careful glassware signal that someone is paying attention.
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Rank 60. Bar Stories
Cocktail Bar
There's no menu at this compact cocktail bar tucked into a Haji Lane shophouse, just a conversation with whoever's behind the bar. You describe a mood or a flavor and they build something around it, often with fresh fruit pounded to order, which is why the wait can stretch. The retro furniture downstairs drifts upstairs, giving the room a faded, unhurried charm that sits a little awkwardly with how in-demand the place clearly is.
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A cocktail bar on the 57th floor of Marina Bay Sands, Kudeta earns its reputation on the view alone: the infinity pool stretches out at eye level, Singapore sprawls below, and the elevator ride up leaves your ears ringing before you've ordered anything. The interior is a maze of angular spaces that don't quite flow, which gives it an oddly furtive feel for somewhere so high up. Come for a drink at sunset, then let someone else figure out the poolside situation.
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