Low Tide takes the tiki bar somewhere stranger than the usual rum-and-palm-fronds cliché. It sits at 98 Club Street, on the corner of Ann Siang Hill, spread over three floors that each run a different tropical concept. It comes from the same group behind Sago House and Underdog Inn, and opened in 2021.
Time Out Singapore frames it as a dual-concept venue rather than a single themed room, built on escapism and worlds unknown rather than kitsch. The main floor, Topside, keeps things light and breezy with a rotating set of around eighteen tropical drinks.
The bar took over a Club Street shophouse and stacked its concepts vertically, a layout SPIRITED and Chope both describe, so a night here can climb from the breezy Topside into darker, more experimental floors. The ascent is part of the show.
The cocktails are rum-forward and built with care. Listed pours include the Pina Clearada, a clarified pina colada with Bacardi Carta Blanca, coconut and lime, and the Swizzle and Flow, which layers a house rum blend with acidulated mint, maraschino, fino sherry, lychee, lime and soda.
The list rewards exploring. The Manilla Vice mashes a daiquiri into a pina colada with purple ube layers, while a sour-plum swizzle leans on absinthe and bitters, the kind of builds that keep the menu from coasting on tiki nostalgia.
The rum focus is genuine rather than decorative. House blends underpin several signatures, and the bartenders build clarified and layered drinks that push past the sweet-and-fruity tiki default into sharper, drier territory.
Who would love it: people who want serious rum drinks without a serious room, across floors that change as the night climbs. Who should skip it: anyone after a quiet single malt or a minimalist cocktail bar, since the mood here is tropical and playful by design.
The food has its own point of view. Under culinary direction from Nithiya N Laila, the kitchen leans into tropical ingredients and cuisines with sharing plates like Nasi Ulam and a dish billed as the Fisherman's Catch, a step past standard bar bites.
The crowd runs younger and louder than the polished Jigger and Pony school of Singapore bars, and the room is built for groups rather than quiet pairs. Pacing a few dishes against the rum drinks keeps a long session upright.
Hours run evenings, opening mid-afternoon on weekends and closing at midnight, with Mondays dark. Club Street and Ann Siang Hill wrap the door in one of the densest bar clusters in Singapore, so it works as a first stop or a detour mid-crawl.
It earns its spot among the city's more inventive rooms. See where it lands in our best tiki bars in Singapore guide, or browse the wider scene in our Singapore bar guide.
Sources: Time Out Singapore, Chope, SPIRITED, Singapore Cocktail Festival, Wanderlog
