Singapore is home to some of the most iconic bars in the world. From award-winning bars on the World’s Best Bars list, to the finest cocktail bars presenting unique flavours, exotic beach bars, magnificent rooftop bars with unmatched views of the city skyline, and so much more – it would be impossible to get to all of them. So, we’ve rounded up our 35 top picks of the best bars in Singapore.
1. Mizue
One of the best new openings in Singapore this season is Mizue. The cafe and wine bar along Club Street features a Japanese-style ambience with lovely brunches during the day, and a vibrant bar scene at night. Expect a curated selection of wines, sakes, cocktails, and more, accompanied by inventive dishes combining Japanese techniques with Italian flavours. Definitely, one of the best new bars in Singapore 2025.
📍87 Club Street, Singapore 069455
2. Fura
Fura is a creative cocktail bar, along Amoy Street in Singapore, with delightful foods and drinks. The bar features innovative cocktails and dishes that uses ingredients with low carbon footprints, such as invasive species like jellyfish, local produce, and insect proteins, to name a few. Definitely, a sustainable bar to visit in Singapore.
📍74A Amoy St, Singapore 069893
3. Madame Claude
Madame Claude is an exclusive members-only burlesque lounge and cocktail bar at Ann Siang Hill in Singapore. It offers a luxurious 1920s-inspired setting with red walls, banquette seating, and birdcage lamps. Visitors can enjoy fine wines and innovative creations from the cocktail menu, alongside epic performances like burlesque, illusionists, and live DJs. The social club is limited to 300 members.
📍8 Ann Siang Hill, #2nd Floor, Singapore 069788
4. KOMA Lounge
One of the most instagrammable bars in Singapore is KOMA’s Lounge. Visitors can enjoy eight expertly-crafted cocktails, two refreshing mocktails, and more in a Japanese bar and restaurant. Plus, you can tuck into delectable bar bites like Fried Oysters. Learn more about this bar and restaurant that even Taylor Swift loves!
📍Marina Bay Sands, 2 Bayfront Ave, #B1-67, Singapore 018972
5. Dimple
This newly opened cocktail bar, Dimple, will transport you to Hong Kong. The bar offers a curated menu of 14 signature cocktails, each priced at $25, and catering to different preferences. Highlights include Passionfruit Martini, Cherry Manhattan, among others. Definitely, a wonderful new bar for a date or catchup with friends.
📍13 Purvis Street, Singapore 188592
6. ATLAS Bar
Step back in time in this 1920s old-world bar setting. If you love The Great Gatsby, you will adore the very unique Atlas Bar which is another one of the World’s 50 Best Cocktail Bars. Enjoy an elegant array of European cocktails and finest spirits and wines from skilled bartenders, paired with delicious shared platters. In fact, this is one of the most instagrammable bars in Singapore because of the plush décor, which is enough to get you those well deserved likes on your #ootd.
📍600 North Bridge Rd, Singapore 188778
7. The Secret Mermaid
A cosy secret hideaway, The Secret Mermaid, is another wonderful cocktail bar in Singapore. Hidden at Raffles Place, the site blends old-world traditions in a typical speakeasy bar offering innovative drinks and impressive cocktails. In fact, it’s appeared on the World’s 50 Best lists in the past and it’s a dedicated bar for American craft spirits.
📍Ocean Financial Centre, 10 Collyer Quay, B1-09 Ocean Financial Centre, Singapore
8. Dragonfly Bar
This new bar, Dragonfly Singapore, promises a memorable experience inside Vibe Hotel Singapore Orchard. The bar is modelled after the original Dragonfly in Hong Kong. It’s an excellent choice for cocktail lovers and those wanting to try boozy high teas in a fairytale-like setting with live music. Learn more.
📍24 Mount Elizabeth, #01-05, Singapore 228518
9. Tess Bar & Kitchen
Tess Bar & Kitchen, is set in a beautifully conserved shophouse, featuring a modern chic design. It’s a lively place to enjoy music, delicious Asian and European food, and craft cocktails by award-winning mixologists. Definitely, one of the best bars in Singapore.
📍36 Seah St, Singapore 188392
10. Night Hawk
Another stellar bar among the crowd in Singapore is the one-of-a-kind Night Hawk. The bar is inspired by Edward Hopper, and features themes of urban isolation and nostalgia for a mid-century feel. Relax in a small immersive space and sip on innovative cocktails, American classics with Asian twists like mac and cheese, and an overall unique drinking experience.
📍43 Tg Pagar Rd, #01-02, Singapore
11. Moga
This new bar and lounge is hidden inside the new Pullman Hotel Singapore Hill Street. Immerse yourself in a modern Japanese Izakaya lounge and bar that intends to spark guest’s imaginations. Named MOGA after trendsetting women, it’s a stylish place to enjoy shared Japanese cuisine alongside a range of specially crafted cocktails. From Geisha’s Garden to gin-infused Wasabi Smash…you’ll be spoilt for choice.
📍1 Hill Street Pullman Singapore Hill Street Singapore
12. HighHouse
Enjoy a cosy meal paired with cocktails in the sky at Singapore’s tallest new dining and nightlife venue hidden atop One Raffles Place. HighHouse is spread across Level 61 and 62 and it’s the ultimate place for exclusive cocktails and memorable group dinners. Grab a craft beer or sip on signature cocktails such as Japanese Seaweed Umani Martini as the sun sets and night falls. Learn more. In fact, new rooftop bar NOVA opened in Level 63 last year too. Certainly, one of the best rooftop bars in Singapore.
📍HighHouse, 1 Raffles Place, #62-01 Singapore 048616
13. The Grande Whiskey Museum
The Grande Whiskey Museum is located at Suntec City in Singapore. Discover the world’s largest collection of rare and vintage whiskies at Asia’s first Whiskey Museum. There are more than 7,000 rare and vintage whiskey bottles at the venue. If you become a member of the club, you will receive invites to vibrant whiskey events with exclusive tastings in The Secret Vault or VIP Room. Definitely, the perfect experience for whiskey aficionados. Plus, the venue can be rented for functions such as birthdays.
📍Suntec City, 3 Temasek Blvd, #01-455, Singapore 038983
14. Native
Native Bar is known for serving a refreshing selection of alcoholic drinks deeply inspired by Singapore’s cultural heritage. The 3-storey building houses a restaurant and bar that focuses on sustainability, and pays homage to traditional flavours, with a global twist, creating a one-of-a-kind drinking and dining experience. The cocktails are the star of the show on the second floor, infused with ingredients from the region, that will send your taste buds on an adventure. Plus, this is a top-rated cocktail bar in the city.
📍52A Amoy St, Singapore 069878
15. Synthesis
Synthesis is a creative new bar and restaurant, hidden behind a TCM-style storefront, in Suntec City. Guests will be treated to marvellous sights as they wander through the sliding door, down a sleek neon-lit alleyway, and into a chic speakeasy. Definitely, an excellent bar for date night or a group night out. Read our review about the bar.
📍 3 Temasek Boulevard #01-643 Suntec City Tower 4, next to 7-11, 038983
16. Jigger And Pony
Without a doubt, this is one of the most popular bars in Singapore, so you won’t be disappointed. Since its inception in 2016, it has received awards yearly as one of the best cocktail bars worldwide. Situated inside the Amara Hotel, relax in a cosy lounge and sip on favourites from the latest magazine menu – a three-part cocktail menu titled Identity, with descriptive stories behind each drink. From the whiskey-infused Korean Boilermaker, to Soy Milk Punk with gin, and Japanese-inspired Spumoni…it’s a superb bar to catch up with friends or host a date in an elegant setting.
📍165 Tg Pagar Rd, Amara Hotel, Singapore
17. Stay Gold Flamingo
Stay Gold Flamingo recently ranked number 32 on the Asia’s 50 Best Bars list for 2023. Concepted by Jerrold Khoo and Bai JiaWei, the funky duo café and cocktail lounge is the perfect place for a drink on Amoy Street. Hide away in an edgy, upbeat lounge with a Rock N Roll attitude behind the velvet curtains. There, you can enjoy comfort food with an Asian twist, alongside beverages like Japanese and American whiskies, other spirits, and there is two cocktail menus – Stay Gold honouring timeless classics or Nothing Gold Can Stay with a unique twist. Learn more about Stay Gold Flamingo.
📍69 Amoy St, Singapore 069888
18. The Elephant Room
Hidden in Little India, The Elephant Room also made the list at No.61 of Asia’s 50 Best Bars this year. The culture-forward cocktail bar, takes inspiration from India, and it’s an excellent place to sip on timeless tradition that’s been reimagined. There’s a story to be told through each drink and palate customers are presented with. Be sure to try the unique New Mango cocktail from Northeast India – a personal favourite of ours!
📍20A Teck Lim Rd, Singapore 088391
19. Manhattan
Discover refreshing crafted cocktails of Manhattan at this sleek bar inside Hilton’s Conrad Singapore Orchard. Consistently ranked in the World’s 50 Best Bars list, the grand bar takes inspiration from a 1920s fine drinking and New York brunch culture. There’s a lavish Adults-Only Sunday Cocktail Brunch which is one of the booziest brunches in Singapore, with DIY Bloody Mary’s, seafood, chocolate fondue stations, and more. Meanwhile, there are dozens of artisanal spirits, more than 220 whisky varieties, and unconventional cocktails, inspired by storied personalities from NYC. Plus, there is two private rooms for group celebrations.
📍1 Cuscaden Rd, Level 2, Singapore 249715
20. High Bar Society
Savour a taste of the booziest gelatos and ice cream cocktails in Asia at the new High Bar Society in Tanjong Pagar. Founded by award-winning chef Sharon Tay, the elegant 30-seater venue is the perfect haven to enjoy a unique cocktail experience, paired with delicious desserts, tapas, and ice cream infused with gins, whiskey, and more. Get the details.
📍High Bar Society, 52 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore
21. Bitters & Love
Bitters & Love is a vibrant bar offers a wide selection of cocktails, alongside delicious mains and side snacks, on Telok Ayer Street. Whether it’s reconnecting with a friend or indulging on drinks after a long week at the office, this is a well-known social hub to hit up over the weekend.
📍118 Telok Ayer St, Singapore 068587
22. Whiskey Library & Jazz Club
Whiskey Library is a hidden gem in Little India presenting award-winning whiskies from across the globe. Housed within The Vagabond Club, whisky lovers can enjoy more than 1000 bottles of diverse bespoke whiskies at one of the world’s best whiskey bars. Satisfy your experience even further with the best entertainment, from silky Jazz stories to musical theatre, in an exquisite red lounge, with individual enclaves, unlike any other bar you know.
📍39 Syed Alwi Rd, at The Vagabond Club, Singapore 207630
23. Bar Stories
Look forward to dozens of bespoke cocktails at Singapore’s original artisanal cocktail bar and restaurant. Particularly, this bar is a pioneer in the craft cocktail scene, and drinks are made with the freshest ingredients, top-quality spirits, infused with unique elements, and presented in the finest fashion to customers. Certainly, one of the best bars for romantic drinks in a minimalist setting in Singapore.
📍55-57A Haji Ln, Singapore 189248
24. 28 Hong Kong Street
This hub of fine drinking is another one of the most popular bars in Singapore. 28 Hong Kong Street is a landmark speakeasy known for its numerous Asia’s 50 Best Bar awards. Enjoy stellar cocktails in a fun, casual secret space, and relax to 90s hip-hop music. From signature Spicy Margaritas to Expresso Martinis, Negroni’s, and more – you’ll be spoilt for choice with the selection of drinks. Reservations are recommended here.
📍28 Hongkong St, Singapore 059667
25. The House Bar
Hide away in a new stylish secret speakeasy bar hidden inside Conrad Singapore Orchard. The House Bar is a luxurious lounge designed for intimate gatherings and quiet drinks with an exquisite collection of sakes. Customers will discover many sough-after sakes, plum liquer, gin, wines, whiskies, and more in this beautiful venue. Additionally, there’s a Happy Hour from 3pm to 6pm daily with $12 cocktails. These drinks will definitely hit the spot!
📍1 Cuscaden Rd, #01-02 Conrad Singapore, Singapore 249715
According to our followers on Instagram and Facebook, here are more top-quality bars for a drink in Singapore:
- Origin Bar (one of the best cocktail bars in Singapore)
- Club 5 (one of the most ig-worthy bars in Singapore)
- Tippling Club
- No.5 Emerald Hill (one of the cheapest bars in Singapore)
- Cat Bite Club
- The Other Room (one of the best secret bars in Singapore)
- Long Bar
- Mr Stork (one of the best rooftop bars in Singapore)
- Entrance
- The Pit (best for beers)
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