Cocktail Bar Near Me in Bugis: ATLAS and Its 1,300-Gin Tower

ATLAS occupies the ground-floor lobby of Parkview Square at 600 North Bridge Road, next to Bugis MRT station, and its gin collection now runs past 1,300 bottles. The bar opened in 2017, celebrated its ninth birthday in March 2026, and its signature ATLAS Martini costs S$28 on the current menu. For anyone typing cocktail bar near me between Bugis and Kampong Glam, this grand lobby bar is the one to book, keeping in mind that its dress code starts at 5pm.

Parkview Square sits beside Bugis MRT station and Bugis Junction, straddling the Rochor Road and Ophir Road corridor. World's 50 Best calls it the building locals know as Gotham City, and the nickname makes sense once you see the dark granite tower with eight giant figures holding light balls around its crown. Completed in 2002, it borrows its look from the 1929 Chanin Building in New York.

Before you reach the door, the open plaza is worth a slow lap. Bronze figures of Abraham Lincoln, Salvador Dalí, Mozart and Sun Yat-sen stand around a square that was modelled on Piazza San Marco in Venice, with a golden crane at the centre. Inside, the lobby ceiling rises about 15 metres, and ATLAS fills that space with copper and burgundy tones, banquettes and a gin tower climbing several storeys.

Parkview Square was the crowning project of developer CS Hwang, the late chairman of the Chyau Fwu Group. His family, who still own the property, created ATLAS to bring the building into the present, and Vicky Hwang leads it as founder and CEO. In a March 2026 interview with a+ Singapore, she discussed how the concept and its gin programme took shape over almost a decade.

The bar marked nine years on 28 March 2026 with a party called Hotel California, when the teams from Maybe Sammy and El Primo Sánchez took guest shifts behind the counter and the new drinks list was previewed. Awards follow the room around. ATLAS was named the Best Bar in Asia at No. 4 on the World's 50 Best Bars in 2020, and Tatler placed it among Singapore's Best 20 Bars in April 2026.

The current list, Daughters of ATLAS, is built around the seven Pleiades of Greek myth, each sister given a short chapter of two cocktails. Merope pairs Afterglow, a champagne and pisco drink with muscat white tea at S$28, with Golden Hour, a sherry cocktail made with roasted butternut squash and egg yolk at S$24. Every price on the menu carries a 10% service charge plus prevailing government taxes.

Further in, Maia offers Wingbeat at S$26, a gin cocktail built on tzatziki cordial, dill, cucumber, mint and yoghurt, which drinks cooler and cleaner than the ingredients suggest. Taygete brings The Maquis at S$24 with tequila, mezcal, green chilli and three herbs, and Celaeno closes with The Illusionist at S$30, a duck-fat-washed rye and cognac stirred with oloroso and topped with champagne. Alcohol-free openers such as Rose Compass start at S$16.

If you order one drink, make it the ATLAS Martini at S$28, the cocktail Tatler singled out in 2026. It uses the bar's own gin with ambrato vermouth, orange bitters and a touch of champagne vinegar, served very cold. Time Out notes the house ATLAS London Dry launched in 2025 and is now the default pour across the list. A flight of three petite martinis, called An ATLAS Suite, costs S$46.

The Negroni Ritual, added in April 2026, tells three trade stories in three glasses. The ATLAS Negroni with frankincense is S$26, By the Ounce with Indonesian gin and nutmeg is S$28, and New Amsterdam with coffee liqueur is S$30, or take all three as a petite flight for S$55. Skip the S$45 Reserve G&T because the S$26 ATLAS G&T shows off the house gin just as well and leaves budget for a second round.

Gin obsessives can go up the tower itself. The ATLAS Gin Tower Experience, booked by email to info@atlasbar.sg, starts from S$100 per guest with a minimum of two, and a bartender guides you up the shelves to choose a bottle, taste it and finish with a paired gin and tonic. The Vintage Martini list goes further, pouring gins from the 1910s onward, with a 1990s gin at S$60.

Reservations open 90 days ahead through the bar's booking page, with new slots released daily, and a credit card is needed to hold a table. ATLAS keeps a share of tables for walk-ins on a first-come basis for lunch, dinner and drinks. A 2026 Trvlogue review describes a solo visitor walking straight in on a weekday afternoon, while warning that weekend and dinner waits can be very long.

From 5pm the smart casual rule applies at the door. Shorts, athletic wear, flip-flops, Birkenstocks and Crocs are refused, and gentlemen need long trousers and covered shoes. If the host quotes a long wait on a Saturday night, walk over to Club 5 at PARKROYAL on Beach Road, a former dance club reworked into a cocktail bar, which the hotel lists as serving drinks from 3pm until midnight.

Time Out describes three kinds of regulars here: couples on date nights, friends lingering over long lunches, and solo drinkers perched at the bar who tell the team which gins they like and let them pick. One quiet rule is worth knowing. The cocktail of the month never appears on the printed list, and bartenders only reveal it to guests who ask, so ask on your second round.

Before an early booking, cross into Kampong Glam to Sultan Mosque at 3 Muscat Street, where the base of the dome is made up of many glass bottles. Visitors are welcome outside prayer times, though Fridays are best avoided. From there, wander the shophouses of Haji Lane, then head back across North Bridge Road so you are back at ATLAS for the start of dinner service at 6pm.

The address is Parkview Square, 600 North Bridge Road, Singapore 188778, with general enquiries at info@atlasbar.sg. The reservations page lists Monday from 3pm to midnight, Tuesday to Thursday from noon to midnight, Friday and Saturday from noon to 2am, and Sunday closed. Late-night food runs from 10pm with last orders at 11:45pm.

Cards are taken for bookings, and every bill adds 10% service charge plus prevailing government taxes. Filtered still and sparkling ATLAS Water is free-flow at S$3 per guest, with part of that donated to charity, so say yes rather than ordering bottles. The afternoon tea is reservation only, served at 3pm, 3:30pm and 4pm. For Halloween, the homepage is promoting a Daughters of ATLAS night with cocktails and music.