Cocktail Bars

On a Parkview Square cocktail room with an eight-metre gin tower, a dress code, and Yana Keller's eight-year argument that the spectacle has a bar inside it.

Or, what a concept-heavy Shangri-La cocktail bar does when you order the boring drink, and the POV menu it sells as a take-home book.

On a shophouse cocktail room that helped teach Singapore how to drink differently, and now has to keep doing it without leaning on its own myth.

A dual-concept Amoy Street room from Jerrold Khoo and Bai JiaWei that turns its identity crisis into the actual concept.

On a 74A Amoy Street bar built around insect proteins, cultured quail, and the question of whether the future can taste like pleasure rather than punishment.

On a Duxton bar built around three hundred-plus agave and rice spirits, and the difference between education and homework.

On an Ann Siang basement bar that puts a toy in the glass and dares you to make it not work.

On a transplanted New York speakeasy on Amoy Street that survives because it remembers what cocktails are actually for.

On a quiet upstairs bar that runs on conversation, judgment, and a Negroni that does not need to be defended.