VUE is a rooftop bar and grill on the 19th-floor penthouse of OUE Bayfront in Raffles Place, with open views across Marina Bay and the financial district skyline. The venue bills its terrace as Singapore's first outdoor spritz bar, which sets the tone for how the night is meant to run.
Who would love it: anyone who wants a proper view and a spritz in hand without the bottle-service formality of the bigger sky bars. Who should skip it: budget drinkers, since this is a penthouse grill where the food and the address both carry premium pricing.
The Rooftop Guide lists VUE among Singapore's rooftop venues and describes the binchotan grill that anchors the kitchen, with meats and seafood cooked over Japanese charcoal. Time Out covered the room's seasonal menus, noting the focus on premium cuts alongside the open-air bar, which is the part most people come for after work.
The signature move is a spritz on the outdoor terrace, with the bar leaning into aperitivo-style drinks built for the heat and the view rather than a long classic-cocktail list. Pair one with a few plates from the grill if dinner is the plan, or treat the terrace as a sunset stop before moving on.
VUE sits at 50 Collyer Quay on Level 19, a short walk from Raffles Place MRT, which puts it inside the cluster of towers that light up the bay after dark. The room runs into the early hours on weekends, but the terrace is at its best in the early evening before the after-work crowd fills the rail.
Pricing matches the postcode, so reservations and a smart-casual approach make for a smoother night than a walk-in in shorts. Groups should book the terrace ahead, since the outdoor seats along the edge are the first to go once the sun drops.
The terrace wraps the building's edge at the 19th floor, which puts the Marina Bay waterfront and the rows of office towers directly in view. The indoor grill room sits behind glass, so the space works whether the plan is dinner or just drinks on the rail outside.
The kitchen's binchotan grill is the anchor on the food side, cooking premium cuts and seafood over Japanese charcoal, and the wine and spirits list runs deep enough to match. For a drinks-only visit, the outdoor spritz bar is the part to head for, since it is built for the view rather than a long sit-down meal.
OUE Bayfront connects by covered link bridges to the wider Raffles Place network, which makes the climb up to Level 19 an easy add-on to a night around the bay. The lifts run to the penthouse directly, so the arrival is quick once inside the tower.
Timing matters more here than at a street-level bar, since the sunset hour fills the terrace first and the best edge seats go early. Booking ahead for that window, rather than chancing a walk-in, is the difference between the rail and a table set back from the view.
Time Out's coverage of the seasonal menus underlines that the kitchen treats the food as seriously as the view, which is worth knowing before choosing between a drink and a full dinner. Either way, the spritz-and-skyline combination is the reason most people make the trip up.
The dress leans smart-casual to match the address, and the crowd skews toward after-work groups and visitors rather than a neighbourhood regular set. That makes it a destination rooftop, the sort of place to plan around rather than wander into.
As a view-first rooftop with a serious grill attached, VUE belongs with the city's sky bars rather than its hidden cocktail dens. Compare it with the rest in our guide to the best rooftop bars in Singapore, and see more rooms in the best bars in Singapore.
