Craft cocktails in heritage shophouse bars
Local tour guide in Singapore, Singapore.
I spent eight years behind some of Singapore's best bars before stepping out from behind the counter to guide. This city quietly became one of the world's great cocktail capitals, and its best rooms hide inside pre-war shophouses. I know the bartenders, the back doors, and the stories in every bottle of local gin. My evenings mix history and craft in equal pours, with excellent snacks along the way.
An insider's evening through award-winning bars hidden in Chinatown and Boat Quay shophouses. We taste cocktails built on Southeast Asian ingredients, from pandan-infused gins to laksa-leaf highballs, meet the bartenders behind them, and trace how a strait-laced city became a world cocktail capital. Three bars, four drinks, endless stories.