Ranked shortlist · 10 of 436 bars
Best bars in Singapore
The 10 most notable bars in Singapore, 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
Sofitel Singapore City Centre
9 Wallich St
70 m from Tanjong Pagar MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.288, percentile 100 of 436
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2
One-Ninety Bar
190 Orchard Blvd, Lobby Level
389 m from Orchard MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.287, percentile 99.77 of 436
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3
CIN CIN
100 Peck Seah St, #01-02 Oasia Hotel Downtown
153 m from Tanjong Pagar MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.286, percentile 99.54 of 436
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4
Orihara Shoten
25 Mohamed Sultan Rd, #01-00
445 m from Fort Canning MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.286, percentile 99.31 of 436
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5
Mr. Stork
5 Fraser St, Level 39
221 m from Bugis MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.286, percentile 99.08 of 436
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6
Whiskey Library & Jazz Club
39 Syed Alwi Rd, The Vagabond Club
344 m from Jalan Besar MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.286, percentile 98.85 of 436
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7
KOMYUNITI
366 Orchard Rd, Level 10 YOTEL
368 m from Orchard MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.286, percentile 98.62 of 436
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8
The Secret Mermaid
10 Collyer Quay, B1-09 Ocean Financial Centre
124 m from Raffles Place MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.285, percentile 98.39 of 436
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9
Republic Bar Singapore
Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore, 7 Raffles Ave, Singapore 039799, Singapore
205 m from Promenade MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.283, percentile 98.16 of 436
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10
ANTI:DOTE
Fairmont Singapore, 80 Bras Basah Rd, Singapore 189560, Singapore
204 m from City Hall MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.281, percentile 97.93 of 436
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.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
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).