HENDERICK’S, Sauce
Esplanade Mall #01-10/12, 8 Raffles Ave
Hot on the heels of the newly revamped Fash room in The Butter Factory, sister bar Saurce has undergone an image overhaul recently.
DOM PERIGNON, Fenix Room
Block 3C River Valley Road
The tagline says it all – The Society of Party Aristocrats. Built to evoke the aesthetics of the roaring Twenties, Fenix Room could easily be one of the rooms in Jay Gatsby’s grand mansion.
GUINESS, Fabrika
Klapsons, The Boutique Hotel, 17/F 15 Hoe Chiang Road
Like an urban oasis, Fabrika is a place where suits will escape to as a form of repieve from a day’s hustling and bustling.
SUNTORY KAKUBIN, Olivia Cassivelaun Fancourt
The Arts House, #02-02, 1 Old Parliament Lane
Befitting the neo-Palladian building it’s housed in, Olivia Cassivelaun Fancourt (or better known as OCF), is all about understated elegance.
PERRIER-JOUET, The Perrier-Jouet Salon, The Mansion
Pacific Plaza, #01-01/03, #02-15, No.9 Scotts Road
Rouge drapes, plush furnishing and moody lighting – all checked. The ultra-lounge cum bar that is The Mansion has all the making of a clandestine tryst scene in a Wong Kar Wai film
ABSOLUT ELYX, 1128
Tanglin Post Office, #B1-02, 56 Tanglin Road
Like the spirit that 1128 has chosen to collaborate, with, Absolut Elyx, the bar is fun, swanky and ultra chic.
THE GLENLIVET, Balaclava Live
Ion Orchard, 2 Orchard Turn
After 10 years, Balaclava has uprooted itself from Suntec City, rechristened as Balaclava Live and settled in the glitzy Ion Orchard – a venue more fitting for this insitiuition.
CHIVAS REGAL 18, KPO
Killiney Post Office, 1 Killiney Road
Aside from the novelty of being a part fully functioning post office and part funky bar, this palce has nailed its DNA with its brand of cool tunes and a distinctive crowd.
The full article appeared in the Sept 13 issue.