Foodie launches, chaotic pop-ups, boozy collabs, and stuff we simply can’t gatekeep. This is your ultimate hit list of what’s hot in Singapore this week. Each week, we round up new restaurants, cool events, buzzy bar openings, low-key gems, and everything else that caught our eye (or landed in our inbox). Think of this as your chaos compass to the week and beyond: no rules, no categories, just pure curated whims.
Legal tender? I hardly know her
Craving: A cocktail that cost only a cucumber
The banks are closed. Cash is dead. And cucumbers? Absolutely booming. From 16 to 19 June, the gloriously weird folks at Hendrick’s Gin are bringing back their Great Cucumber Exchange, where you can literally trade a cucumber for a free Hendrick’s cocktail at participating bars across Singapore. Yes, your fridge produce is now a valid economic instrument.
You’ll get a crisp Hendrick’s & Tonic, or you can upgrade to one of two limited-edition weird-and-wonderful concoctions: the Flora Adora (like a floral garden party in your mouth) or the Grand Cabaret (stone fruit, sass, drama). Even better? Hendrick’s is unleashing a mysterious Cucumber Town Council into the wild, aka Raffles Place and Tanjong Pagar, during lunch hours, doling out emergency cucumbers to stressed-out CBD zombies.
All you have to do is register at refreshinglycurious.com, choose your watering hole, swap your cucumber for an e-voucher, and drink like it’s peak Victorian absurdity. One cuke = one cocktail = one blessed evening.
16–19 June at selected bars across Singapore
Bizarre Brilliance: 10/10
Flirt-to-Cocktail Conversion Rate: 9/10
Instagram Story Potential: 8/10
Likelihood You Forget Your Cucumber at Home: 6/10
Snootiest Garnish Award: Cucumber
Tapas, tomahawks and gender-specific booze nights
Craving: HELLO, FREE DRINKS
CHIJMES is already dramatic(ally gothic), but The Winery Tapas Bar just dropped a new daily promo lineup that turns it into full-blown theatre. We’re talking unlimited tapas Mondays ($39/pax), boozy ladies’ and gents’ nights (with actual free-flow), and the glorious resurrection of Sunday service, because wine tastes better when you’re not working the next morning.
The highlights? Tuesdays bring salmon and soda pairings for $18 (sounds cursed, tastes great). Wednesdays let the girls run wild with free-flow wine and cocktails, and Saturdays hand the mic to the lads with Peroni, vodka, and cocktails on tap. Want protein? Thursday’s tomahawk steak is a meaty flex at $98/pax, and the weekend roast set (4 proteins, $49 for two) will have you planning a second dinner you don’t need.
Even the tiger prawns are on sale: $18 on Fridays, down from $28, because who doesn’t love a crustacean discount?
Monday to Saturday, 4pm to 1am; Sunday till midnight at CHIJMES
Value for Booze: 11/10
Food Coma Probability: 5/10
Date Night Utility: 7.5/10
Girls’/Lads’ Night Drama Potential: 10/10
Likelihood You Roll Into Work Hungover: dangerously high
Air you serious?
Craving: Balloon, art, and a bit of a trip
Pack your inner child and some non-slip socks. Balloon Museum is making its Singapore debut with Pop Air – Art Is Inflatable, a surreal, bouncy playground-slash-art installation that takes over Marina Bay Sands Hall F from 7 June to 31 August. Imagine art, but inflated: giant air sculptures, neon-lit rooms, cloud swings, and bizarrely beautiful blobs just waiting to be poked, bounced through, and thoroughly social-media-ed.
This immersive 6,000 sqm fever dream features works by artists from Italy, Germany, Poland, Australia and more. Yes, it’s technically art, but your kids will think it’s a glorified trampoline park, and your date will probably say, “Wait, is this legal?” You’ll find pieces like Spiritus Sonata (interactive breathing sculpture), Hypercosmo (alien energy core vibes), and Cloud Swing (literal floating joy).
Tickets aren’t cheap, but not eye-watering either: $45 to $60 for adults, $35 to $45 for kids, depending on weekday or weekend. Cheaper than therapy and comes with more helium.
7 June–31 August at Marina Bay Sands Hall F
Vibe Check: 9/10
Instagrammability: 11/10
Kid Hype Levels: 10/10
Likelihood of Tripping on a Toddler: 7/10
Art vs. Playground Debate: Ongoing
Singapore’s own slice of Noryangjin chaos
Craving: Ganjang Gejang
We’re not saying you need to book a flight to Seoul to get a taste of Noryangjin Market, because this UE Square seafood spot basically said, “We gotchu.” Fish & Bones is a vibey little restaurant channeling the hustle, freshness, and unapologetic brininess of Korea’s biggest fish market, minus the 7am wet floors and squid eyeballs staring into your soul.
Here, it’s soy-marinated raw crab that tastes like the ocean kissed you on the mouth, jjampong with a spice level that’ll recalibrate your life choices, and a steady flow of chimaek-style vibes. The space is cosy, the service is warm, and there’s enough seafood in tanks to raise an army. Is it the most refined Korean restaurant in Singapore? Nah. Is it delicious, chaotic, and oddly transportive? Abso-fishin’-lutely.
81 Clemenceau Ave, #01-13, Singapore 239917. Open daily.
Vibe Check: 8/10
K-Seafood Authenticity: 9/10
JJAMPPONG FIRE LEVEL: 100/10
Chance You’ll Suck a Crab Leg Clean in Public: 10/10
Noise Level When Someone Bites into Raw Crab: Wet slap x 3
Air you serious?
Craving: Game night with the squad
Look, we didn’t think Monopoly needed more unhinged energy, but Hasbro said “what if jail was super jail and also profitable?” To celebrate 90 years of family feuds and flipped boards, the cult-classic game just dropped a glowed-up Monopoly Singapore Edition with slicker graphics, chonkier tokens, and enough local flavour to make your uncle pick a fight over Marina Bay rent.
But the real tea? Three new expansion packs that speed things up and spice them up. There’s Free Parking Jackpot (spin to win, baby), Go To Jail (collect Corruption cards because, yes, crime pays now), and Buy Everything (yes, even the Jail is for sale). Each expansion packs costs $16.90 and promises enough chaos to ruin brunch and rekindle your love for capitalism temporarily.
Pick it all up online or at Toys “R” Us Singapore and make your next game night a full-blown heist.
From S$16.90 at major retailers and hasbro.com
Nostalgia Hit: 8/10
Likelihood of Family Feud: 9/10
Chaotic Capitalism Energy: 10/10
Collectible Value: 7/10
Playtime Commitment: Medium, unless you’re trapped in Super Jail
