Stay Gold Flamingo Speakeasy Bar: S$17 Golden Hour, Amoy St

Stay Gold Flamingo is a cocktail bar at 69 Amoy Street, Singapore 069888, that hides behind the daytime coffee and wine bar at its front. Golden Hour is 5pm to 7pm, Monday to Saturday, with five classic cocktails at S$17 each. The bar is shut on Sundays. It ranked 97th on Asia's 50 Best Bars list in 2026, after placing 32nd in 2023 and 63rd in 2024. For a speakeasy-style night in the Central Business District, book through the bar's reservation page and arrive for the first hour.

The address does two jobs. Flamingo Coffee & Wine is the front room, serving coffee and a sando-and-bento lunch menu from Monday to Saturday, and Stay Gold is the cocktail bar that takes over once the day shift ends. The bar's own description calls it a cocktail bar fronted by a coffee and wine bar, which is why people file it under hidden bars: you walk in through a cafe and end up somewhere louder, darker and more theatrical.

The bar was founded by two local bartenders, Jerrold Khoo and Bai JiaWei, who describe it as a third place for the community, built around drinks and music. Its name is a reminder to stay gold in a fast-paced world. In 2026 the team marked five years of operation with a run of guest shifts from bars across Taiwan, Vietnam, Bangkok and Shanghai.

Awards give the bar some context. Beyond the 2026 Asia's 50 Best Bars ranking, the bar was 63rd in 2024 and 32nd in 2023, started on the 50 Best Discovery list in 2022, and has been named among Tatler's best 20 bars in Singapore in both 2025 and 2026.

The cheapest, easiest way into Stay Gold is Golden Hour, from 5pm to 7pm. The April 2026 Golden Hour sheet lists five cocktails at S$17 each: a Paloma with blanco tequila, lime and pink grapefruit soda; a Flora Adora with gin, lime, raspberry oleo and spiced ginger beer; a Mojito with rum, lime, mint and cream soda; a Whiskey Sour; and an Old-Fashioned built on a bourbon mix with dark muscovado sugar and two kinds of bitters.

Wine by the glass is S$12 for red, white or prosecco, or S$65 a bottle, and an Asahi lager is S$11. A bottle of champagne is S$130. The menu notes that prices are subject to prevailing taxes and service charge. The bar describes the hour as classics to wind down to, so this is the slot for a quick drink after the office rather than a long tasting.

After Golden Hour you move onto the main list, Bartender's Diary Vol. II, a menu that went live on 31 March 2026 and is built like a mixtape. It has quirky new signatures in what the team calls the B-sides, past favourites from Stay Gold's earlier menus as the anthems of the bar, and timeless classics remastered. The bar describes its approach as a blend of Japanese-American bartending.

Golden Hour is the only price sheet quoted here, so read the printed menu at your seat for the rest. If you have a drink in mind, ask the bartender what has changed since the Diary launched in March, since new creations tend to rotate faster than the classics.

Food at Stay Gold is bar food with ambition. The April 2026 menu has street fries with truffle, cheese sauce and furikake at S$16, a mala quail egg snack at S$8, homemade sourdough with umami butter, beef fat and anchovy at S$14, and a duck pancake at S$26. The mapo dog, a pork hotdog topped with mapo tofu, cheese and pickled onions, is S$16, and kinako chicken wings with a kuromitsu glaze are S$20.

Bigger plates include a steak and rice with Pardoo wagyu rump at S$36, local red snapper fish tacos at S$26, beef cheek pasta at S$28 and a butter miso pasta at S$18. For a group, the 300g Jeju pork belly ssam is S$38, and a Rockstar Platter for four with mapo dogs, fries and sticky ribs is S$68. Desserts are a classic tiramisu at S$14 and a loaf-pan cheesecake at S$12. If you can only order one thing, make it the mapo dog.

The kitchen takes last food orders at 9.30pm Monday to Thursday and 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday, and the last drink order is at 11.30pm. That means a late arrival on a Saturday can still eat if you sit by 10.30pm.

Reservations go through SevenRooms, and and the bar's website marks reservations as highly recommended for its event nights. With the cafe in front, it is easy to assume the bar is walk-in only, but booking is the safer route, especially for a party of three or more.

If you arrive without a booking, the simplest plan B is to take a seat in the Flamingo front room during the day, when the cafe serves coffee, sando and bento from 9am to 4.30pm. In the evening, keep your party small and arrive at 5pm, when Golden Hour starts.

Amoy Street sits in the old Telok Ayer district, a short walk from Telok Ayer Street, Ann Siang Hill and the Chinatown conservation area. After a drink, head toward Telok Ayer Street for the shophouse restaurants or stroll up to Ann Siang Hill for a quieter walk. Telok Ayer MRT and Tanjong Pagar MRT are both within walking distance for the trip home.

Because Stay Gold runs until midnight, you can plan a full evening: arrive for Golden Hour at 5pm, order from the main menu after 7pm, and still have time for dinner at the bar before the last food order. The bar is closed on Sundays, so Saturday is the last night of the week to catch it.

Address: Stay Gold Flamingo, 69 Amoy Street, Singapore 069888. Stay Gold cocktail bar: Monday to Saturday, 5pm to 12am; closed Sunday. Flamingo Coffee & Wine: Monday to Saturday, 9am to 4.30pm. Golden Hour is 5pm to 7pm, with cocktails at S$17, wine at S$12 a glass and Asahi at S$11. Prices are subject to prevailing taxes and service charge.

Reservations are made through SevenRooms from staygoldflamingo.com. Ask the Karpo APP to build an Amoy Street and Telok Ayer evening around your booking, and it can line up dinner before Golden Hour and a late walk afterward.