VUE sits on the nineteenth floor of OUE Bayfront on Collyer Quay, in the Raffles Place financial core on the north bank of the Singapore River. SilverKris, Singapore Airlines' magazine, lists it among the city's revamped rooftops, a grill restaurant and open-air sky bar with a sweep over Marina Bay. The pitch is a fine-dining rooftop with a cocktail bar attached rather than a club.
Published October 20, 2025 · By Priya Nair
The room
The rooftop splits between an indoor grill room and an open-air terrace that looks across the river to Marina Bay Sands and the financial skyline. The mood is polished and grown-up, built for a sunset drink or a long dinner rather than a loud night. The nineteenth-floor address does much of the work, with the bay laid out below the rail.
OUE Bayfront stands at the edge of Raffles Place, linked by a footbridge to the Marina Bay waterfront. That position gives VUE one of the closer downtown rooftop views of the bay without the height-driven prices of the taller towers. The terrace is the seat to ask for, since the view is the reason to climb.
What to order
The bar runs a signature cocktail list alongside wine and a grill-led kitchen. HungryGoWhere, reviewing the venue's 2026 spring menu, flags house builds such as the Bananano Kawa, made with banana rum, amaretto and passionfruit, and the Cheeky Monkey, which mixes Monkey Shoulder whisky with peach liqueur, chamomile and prosecco. The drinks are pitched at the sunset crowd as much as the dinner tables.
For a first visit the signature list is the way in, since it is where the bar puts its character. The wine range and the grill plates suit a longer evening that moves from terrace drinks to a table. Prices land at the top end, in line with a nineteenth-floor address over Marina Bay.
Who it is for
VUE fits a couple after a landmark sunset, a special-occasion dinner, and anyone who rates a polished rooftop over a party bar. Skip it for a cheap, casual round, since this is a fine-dining roof with prices to match. It rewards guests who book the terrace for dusk and treat the bay view as the headline.
Best time to go
Sunset is the move, when the light drops behind the financial towers and the bay turns on across the water. The open-air terrace is the seat to book for that window, and an early table beats the after-work rush from the surrounding offices. Weeknights are calmer than weekends for a drinks-only visit.
An evening timed to dusk gives the fullest version of the view, with Marina Bay Sands lit across the river as the light goes. The terrace is weather-dependent, so a backup indoor seat is worth holding in the wet months. Booking ahead is wise for a sunset table, given the small terrace.
The detail worth knowing
The downtown-rooftop position is the detail that sets it apart, since few Raffles Place roofs put the Marina Bay view this close without the queues of the headline towers. The grill-and-bar format lets it run as a full dinner venue rather than a drinks-only deck. Its place on SilverKris's rooftop edit marks it as a destination rather than a hotel-lobby bar.
Pairing a serious kitchen with the sky-bar list gives VUE a longer evening than most rooftops manage. The OUE Bayfront address keeps it a step from the Marina Bay crowds while sharing their view. For a downtown sunset drink with dinner attached, it is one of the easier calls in Raffles Place.
The bottom line
VUE is OUE Bayfront's nineteenth-floor rooftop, a grill restaurant and open-air sky bar with a sweep across Marina Bay. Come for sunset, book the terrace, and start with a signature cocktail. It is a polished dinner-and-drinks rooftop rather than a club, and the bay view is the reason to go up.
Keep exploring with our best rooftop bars in Singapore guide, the full Singapore bar guide, and our edit of rooftop bars worldwide. Pair VUE with Lantern, CE LA VI, and Level33.
