Cat Bite Club keeps the city's deepest agave collection behind a coffee shop, and the door is a curtain at the back of Monument Cafe on Duxton Road. Step through after 5pm and the daytime cafe becomes a dark, low room stacked with mezcal, raicilla and rice spirits you will not find anywhere else in Singapore.
The bar opened in June 2023, run by childhood friends Gabriel Lowe and Jesse Vida, the latter the former head bartender at Atlas. The World's 50 Best Bars handed it the Campari One To Watch award in 2024, and in 2025 it landed at No. 44 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars list, a fast climb for a room with barely two dozen seats. Behind the counter sit more than 200 agave bottles, which the team bills as the largest such collection in the country.
The room is small and deliberately moody, a red neon cat marking the way in and worn leather and timber filling the rest. This is a sit-and-talk bar, not a crush, and it suits a focused night over a big one. For drinkers working through the city's best Singapore cocktail bars, it is the obvious stop for anyone who wants to go deep on a single category rather than skate across a long menu.
What to order depends on your appetite for smoke. Start with a flight of three agave spirits poured neat, the clearest way to taste the range from grassy blanco to leathery, aged mezcal. From the cocktail list, the agave highballs drink long and bright, while the soju and shochu builds show the bar's second obsession, Asian legacy spirits used with the same care as the Mexican bottles. Cocktails sit in the upper bracket, which is why the price runs to three dollar signs, but the pours are generous and the guidance is free.
Who it is for: the spirits nerd, the Atlas alumnus chasing a quieter follow-up, and the traveller who wants one truly distinctive Singapore room rather than another hotel bar. It is a poor choice for a large group or a quick drink. Line it up with the Duxton and Chinatown circuit, where Sago House in Singapore rebuilds its menu weekly and Atlas in Singapore answers with its gin tower a short cab ride north.
Best time to go is a weeknight just after opening, when seats at the counter are still free and the bartenders have time to walk you through the wall. Walk-ins are welcome, but the bar takes reservations for parties of five or more, and weekends fill quickly once the dinner crowd drifts over from Duxton Hill. Robb Report, profiling the bar, framed it as proof that a single-category room can still surprise, and Marcus Webb rates it the most quietly ambitious opening Singapore has seen since the agave wave reached Asia. For more context, see our guide to the best cocktail bars in Singapore.
Sources: The World's 50 Best Bars; Time Out Singapore; Robb Report Singapore; The Spirits Business; 88 Bamboo.
