Tantric Bar is one of Singapore’s most popular gay bars, especially on Friday and Saturday nights, when it’s filled with revellers sipping cocktails and swilling double-shot housepours. The indoor bar is filled with pounding music, but the open-air garden provides some reprieve.
Weekdays are more relaxed, with the after-work crowd flocking to the orange, red, and black velvet lounge area. May Wong’s Café upstairs has more of the same.
Tantric Bar is housed in a magnificently renovated heritage shophouse on Neil Road in Chinatown, directly across from famed nightclub Taboo. Backstage Bar, located adjacent on Trengganu Street, is a sister institution.