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The Terrace
Part of the hip Screening Room, the views across Chinatown and the CBD from this intimate rooftop bar are superb. Bag a comfy couch on the periphery, kick the shoes off and have a shouting-into-each-other's-ears conversation over the sound system.
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The Theatre Practice
Singapore's more dynamic and contemporary theatre groups produce both edgy and more accessible works at various venues around town. They often struggle for audiences and funds, but their undoubted passion keeps them alive. Banners advertising shows are usually plastered around town, or check listings in local magazines and newspapers.
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The Toucan
Unique among Singapore's Irish pubs in that it has a proper beer garden: a lawn, wooden benches, big umbrellas, even a wishing well.
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The Wine Company
Casual, relaxed, unstuffy wine bar in a quiet location opposite the National University of Singapore sports grounds. Places particular emphasis on offering 'affordable' wines, principally from South Africa.
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The Wine Network
An old favourite of Dempsey Rd aficionados whose patronage predates the area's yuppification. Sit and pine for the old days over a large wine list in the bare brick, barrel-scented interior, or on the peaceful wooden deck outside. Cheese platters ward off hunger before dinner at PS Café or Samy's Curry.
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Theatreworks
Singapore's more dynamic and contemporary theatre groups produce both edgy and more accessible works at various venues around town. They often struggle for audiences and funds, but their undoubted passion keeps them alive. Banners advertising shows are usually plastered around town, or check listings in local magazines and newspapers.
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Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble
This cutting-edge bilingual theatre company produces a strong range of international and local works. Productions have included Britain's Beautiful Thing , a gay love story transported from a British housing estate to a Singaporean HDB block; Shopping and F***ing ; and Ibsen's A Doll House . It also stages traditional Chinese performances.
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Union Bar
With big squishy corduroy couches, plenty of elbow room and views onto Club St's passing parade, Union is hard to beat for a relaxed late-afternoon beer. If you're flush with cash, most of the abstract art on the walls is for sale.
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Villa Bali
Highlight of this relaxed garden bar is the private wooden platforms, where you can recline back on some cushions, sink a few drinks and some decent Indian snacks and fantasise that it's your own backyard.
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W Wine Bar
Tiny, intimate, relaxed, low-lit - everything you could want in a pre or postdinner wine bar. There are low tables and sofas and of course, a huge list of around 300 wines.
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Wala Wala
Large, raucous but friendly, Wala Wala has been a long-standing favourite with the young expat crowd for its breezy vibe and its live-music bar upstairs, where the focus is on danceable, singable, air-punchable tunes.
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Why Not?
Why not plant yourself on a podium at Why Not? and carve it up? One of Singapore's most popular backstreet G&L hangouts boasts nonstop house and crowd-pleaser anthems.
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Wild Rice
Singapore's more dynamic and contemporary theatre groups produce both edgy and more accessible works at various venues around town. They often struggle for audiences and funds, but their undoubted passion keeps them alive. Banners advertising shows are usually plastered around town, or check listings in local magazines and newspapers. This group is Singapore's sexiest and often most daring company.
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Zouk
Ibiza-inspired Zouk is a regular destination for globe-trotting DJs. Five bars, 2000-capacity, roomy dance floor - there's guaranteed bar access and plenty of space to cut the rug. Minimum-age entry is 21 for women, 23 for men.
