Junior, the latest watering hole here – and maybe the smallest – offers new experimental drinking concepts every six months.
A small, intimate bar housed in a bigger space.
With only 10 seats – filled on a first come, first served basis – two-month-old Junior is elusive and inconspicuous. It’s located within the Tanjong Pagar restaurant, Crackerjack – and in true hole-in-the-wall fashion, it’s a place you enter through the back alley on Cook Street.
Brought to you by The Proof Collective, the folks behind cult favourite 28 Hongkong Street, its purpose is, well, more innovation.
“Opening Junior gives us the opportunity to explore crazy, creative ideas,” says Zdenek Kastanek, general manager of the company’s three establishments. “It allows us to experiment in areas of interest, and to celebrate concepts in a way that some of the world’s largest and most mature cocktail cities – like New York City and London – have not been able to do.”
It means that Junior will be the hotbed for conceptual-based cocktails made with hard-to-find spirits brought back by The Proof Collective’s veteran bartenders from their travels. Mimicking the way art galleries change exhibitions, it will focus on one core subject every six months.
With fewer than a dozen patrons at a time flghting for the bartender’s attention, Junior is the new after-work haunt for a spirit-and-cocktail education between Wednesday and Saturday, from 7pm to midnight.
The Wild Mezcal Flight: three 30ml tasters of curated mescal ($45-$65).
