With her bubbly personality and a twelve-seater bar built for intimate chats, snagging a seat at June’s counter is hands-down the best way to spend your night. June hails from South Korea but has made Singapore her home, where she co-founded Hup San Social Club and quickly became a warm, familiar face behind the bar. For her, bartending is more than a craft — it’s the rare chance to connect with guests in a truly intimate, personal way. That love for genuine interaction shine

Dave swears he’s done with running Bar Stories at least once a week — but after 20 years behind the stick, he knows he’s far too in love with bartending to ever walk away. Dave is the man behind one of Singapore’s OG cocktail institutions, Bar Stories — though he’ll be the first to admit he didn’t start out with noble intentions. In his younger days, he got into bartending because he thought it’d help him meet girls. Fast-forward more than 20 years in the industry, and while

Vijay may champion regional spirits — but he’ll tell you straight up that milk punches should disappear and that most modern cocktails all simply look the same. Vijay is the driving force behind Native, a bar built on a steadfast, sustainability-led philosophy that champions local and regional ingredients. For nearly a decade, he has pushed the boundaries of what a truly rooted cocktail program can be, earning Native repeated recognition for its thoughtful approach to flavor,

From trained engineer to experimental bartender, Abhishek's rollercoaster journey into the cocktail world is nothing short of a series of entrepreneurial hustles. Abhishek is the gregarious force behind some of Singapore’s most beloved bars, including Sago House and The Spiffy Dapper. A serial entrepreneur with an unshakable drive, his path hasn’t been smooth — he’s weathered tough times, including going broke — but his perseverance and inventive spirit have kept him moving f

One of the cocktail pioneers in the Southeast Asian region, Michael tells all about the Singapore scene, the sacrifice, and his charismatic cocktail shaking style Meet Michael — a tour de force behind the bar whose story began in San Francisco and took root in Singapore back in 2011. As the founding head bartender of 28 Hong Kong Street, he helped propel it onto the World’s 50 Best Bars list and, in doing so, put Singapore firmly on the global cocktail map. Now, more than a d