The Best Places to Drink and Do in Central Singapore

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1. Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
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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.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Sunlight pours through floor-to-ceiling windows at this cocktail bar inside the Four Seasons, where the botanical theme isn't just decor, it runs through the menu. Drinks pull from fresh market produce with plant-based and wellness-leaning options alongside the classics, and the Kitchen Garden cocktail mixes aquavit with tomato, mushroom, and celery in a way that sounds like a salad but drinks like a dare.

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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 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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