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Bar scene stalwart Atlas pays homage to 1920s cocktail craft in new menu

Classics are revisited via once-groundbreaking techniques from the golden age of drinking

Zhao Yifan
Published Fri, May 17, 2024 · 05:46 PM
    • Silver Bullet is Atlas beverage director Yana Keller's ideal martini: almost frozen, served straight out of the freezer in a frozen glass.
    • Silver Bullet is Atlas beverage director Yana Keller's ideal martini: almost frozen, served straight out of the freezer in a frozen glass. PHOTO: ATLAS

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    A FIXTURE of Singapore’s craft cocktail scene, a regular on The World’s 50 Best Bars List and housed within an iconic Art Deco building, gin-focused bar Atlas needs little introduction.

    Yet this bar scene stalwart is not resting on its laurels. It launched a new menu this March, “Preservation of Fire”, which draws inspiration from a saying by composer Gustav Mahler: “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

    Lidiyanah Keller, Atlas’ beverage director, described the menu as a homage to the cocktail revival of the 1920s.

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