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The folks at the Jigger & Pony Group are keeping themselves busy. Fresh off the heels of launching two new concepts – Pop City X Pony and BOP – the team is also introducing a brand new menu for its headlining venue, Jigger & Pony. The World No. 9 and Asia's third-best bar of 2025 presents Bloom, its latest curation of 21 cocktails ($28 each). If last year's menu, Embrace, was about connection and community, this year's theme is about resilience and growth – fitting for the challenging circumstances in the bar industry at the moment.
Expect the same hardcover 'menuzine' that has become synonymous with the bar's visual identity, supported by a one-pager spread at the front, where you get an overview of all the cocktails at a glance. The 68-page book takes guests through four sections: Hope, Growth, Beauty and Just Be, focusing on overlooked ingredients, new takes on classic cocktails, expressive and vibrant flavours, and timeless classics respectively.
Our top pick from the new menu is the mango margarita. A blend of 70 percent green mango and 30 percent ripe mango is used, resulting in an incredibly tart and sharp first sip. It's definitely on the bold, sour side, but nothing too extreme. In place of the usual salt rim, Sichuan peppercorn is gently infused into the mixture, providing a subtle, savoury lift at the very end. Not your usual margarita, but definitely one that'll grow on you.
The wasabi highball, on the other hand, might need more fine-tuning. Toki whisky, wasabi-infused vodka and apricot soda are the key components here, but we only get notes of the whisky, a faint taste of apricot and no trace of wasabi. Granted, its characteristic pungent flavour might have been removed for refinement, but with a key ingredient of the cocktail noticeably absent, the name might be a misnomer.
We can see the Strawberry Matcha Cloud being a popular pick among guests. It's a riff off the most common café order at the moment, built with Roku gin, strawberry milk punch, amontillado, sherry, fino sherry, lemon, absinthe and vodka-spiked matcha cream. We are advised to take a generous first sip to appreciate the contrast in layers between the thick cream and silky smooth base, and the balance between the bitterness of the matcha and the syrupy sweetness of the strawberry milk punch. Rationing is key here, because once that cream is gone, the rest of the drink becomes much too sweet to enjoy on its own.
And there are still others worth trying: Crimson Fizz spotlights cherries as a main ingredient instead of a garnish; the Soursop Colada reinvents the Piña Colada with yoghurt whey and chocolate; Peach Party is fun, fruity and floral; while the Bloom Martini is the latest demonstration of the bar team's technical knowledge. Or stick to the basics – they never go wrong. Get that yuzu whisky sour, espresso martini, or our perennial favourite: the Peanut Alexander.
Jigger & Pony is open from Sundays to Tuesdays from 6pm to midnight and Wednesdays to Saturdays from 6pm to 2am, at 165 Tg Pagar Rd, Amara Hotel, Singapore 088539.
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