Hup San is a 12-seat basement cocktail bar inspired by the social clubs once found around Club Street. Its current menu organizes drinks around moments of joy, and it preserves limited reservation slots alongside walk-in space.
Description source · Checked 2026-09-09
Plan Your Visit
98 Club St, Singapore 069467Club Street
- Style
- Intimate basement cocktail barChecked 2026-09-09 · Source
- Hours
- Monday–Saturday 18:00–00:00.Checked 2026-09-09 · Source
- Booking
- Limited online slots and walk-ins are available; groups of no more than four are recommended.Checked 2026-09-09 · Source
- Menu
- View the venue’s menu ↗Checked 2026-09-09 · Source
Hours and menus can change. Check the venue’s latest details before visiting.
The score & its evidence
Seven signals. One score.
43.0 / 100
The composite combines the seven weighted signals and the published adjustments. The chart shows each signal before weighting.
Read the full calculation- Guest ratings
- 66.5
- World's 50 Best
- —None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
- Top 500 Bars
- —None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
- Spirited Awards
- —None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
- Regional Recognition
- 87.8
- Serious press
- 24.9
- Social Vibes
- 63.0
Weights: Guest ratings 23% · World's 50 Best 12% · Top 500 Bars 10% · Spirited 12% · Regional Recognition 18% · Press 10% · Social Vibes 15%
Missing evidence, confirmed none and evidence outside a scoring window each contribute zero. We do not redistribute their fixed weight to other signals.
Social Vibes
Score read updated:
Sentiment score
90/ 100
The existing 90/100 remains the historical proprietary read. This check qualifies cited sources without recalculating the score.
Score context
Professional accounts praise Hup San’s drinks and intimate setting. Sam Bygrave’s Boothby review is firsthand critic prose; The Business Times also quotes co-owner June Baek. Time Out notes the tight space. These sources are not three independent customer reviews.
Guest sources checked:
Publication and posting dates are distinct from visit dates. The original score, confidence and stored evidence remain unchanged.
Guest score details
What the cited sources say
- Critics praise the drinks and compact setting.
Source reservations
- Time Out notes that space is tight.
This read cites editorial or award context. Those links are distinct from guest accounts; only the reviewed links in Reviews & press count toward Press.
Editorial citations in this read
- boothby.com.auSam Bygrave — Boothby review · 11 June 2026; exact visit date unknown
Sam Bygrave’s first-person critic account of Hup San praises the compact room and drinks. The statement that one drink divides people is attributed to owner June, not independently counted guest opinion.
- timeout.comTime Out — Editorial review · Created 2 June 2025; page dated 7 October 2026; visit date unknown
Time Out praises the drinks and describes cramped space, calling Hup San one of 2025’s exciting openings. The page displays 7 October 2026; its creation metadata is 2 June 2025. Neither confirms the earlier 25 June 2025 date. No named critic or exact visit date was established.
- businesstimes.com.sgPaige Lim — The Business Times · 26 April 2025; visit date unknown
Reported feature identifies the basement Hup San separately from Club Street Laundry upstairs and quotes co-owner June Baek. Operator hopes and practices are not customer testimony.
Crowd signal
Google 4.9★ across 63 reviews.
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Awards
Results from the three global systems scored separately in our formula.
No recorded global awards in the scored window.
Regional Recognition
Regional and national lists, local awards and bartender peer picks considered for this room's Regional Recognition score. The strongest result from each program and year scores; assessed guides use the latest accepted dated status once.
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The Bartender's Edit
Peer recommendations from working bartenders. All editions are shown for context; only the strongest placement after recency decay contributes to the score.