Ranked shortlist · 10 of 10 bars
Best bars in Batam
The 10 most notable bars in Batam, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
The Last Pub
Komplek New Holiday, Jl. Imam Bonjol Blok B1-2
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.400, percentile 100 of 10
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2
Batam Fresh Beer
Komp. Hup Seng Blok D No. 8
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.254, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
Tiger Beach Club Batam
Palm Springs golf & beach resort
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 0.979, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
Cock & Bull Bar and Restaurant
Jl. Imam Bonjol No.21
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.973, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
Bluefire Beach Club
Golden Prawn
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 0.968, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
Gravity Ten
Aston Batam Hotel & Residence
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.919, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
Holywings Batam
The Promenade Harbour Bay Kav. 09, Jalan Duyung, Kel. Sei Jodoh, Kec. Batu Ampar, Batam 29453
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.835, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
Tipsy Bar Batam
Komplek New Holiday e/11
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.619, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
Secret's Bar
Blok A - No. 8 & 9 Komplek Batam Plaza, Jl. Raja Ali H.
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 0.553, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
BEER_di_CLAM's
Marina City 11
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 0.501, percentile 0 of 10
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).