"Let's Misbehave" and "Midnight in Ruins", from Atlas Bar's new menu Gazette du Bon Ton.

Singapore's Atlas Bar has launched a brand new cocktail menu for 2025, this time titled "the Gazette du Bon Ton"! Named after the 20th-century French magazine that would inspire what would later become Vogue, the new cocktails are designed to evoke the vibrant creativity of the 1920s and 1940s, a period when fashion, music, and social life confidently embraced the modern age. For the uninitiated, Bon ton is French for "timeless good taste"! 

Specifically designed to read like a luxury European lifestyle magazine, the menu is divided into four evocative chapters: the elegance of 1920s fashion in En Vogue; the innovation of the 1925 Paris World Fair in To The Great Fair; the exuberance and rebellious spirit of the Jazz Age in In Full Swing; and the age of grand, glittering soirées in The Spectacle. 

Notable cocktails include Let's Misbehave, which is inpsired by a Cole Porter song of the same name. This combines American gin, sloe gin, bitter bianco, spiced liqueur, and honey, which is then garnished with a torched cocktail onion. Ideal for those who appreciate drama and depth, Midnight in Ruins is said to be a reflection on the fleeting magic of the most legendary parties, brought forth by a mix of rye whiskey, cherry-infused port, Italian bitter liqueur, and grappa. 

The Streamliner (Left) and the Miss Rouge. (Right)

The Streamliner is a clarified milk punch with pisco, fino sherry, green tea, almond, and honey, presented as a nod to the excitement of transatlantic voyages of old.

For those less inclined to alcohol, the Miss Rouge is a no-alcohol marriage of spiced spirit, verjus (unripe grape juice), basil tea, and salt, finished with a nasturtium leaf; said to be a tribute to the era’s affinity for beauty and self-expression associated with 1920s ocean liners.

UK artist Adrian Pack's hand-detailed illustrations.

Each page of the new menu features hand-detailed illustrations by UK artist Adrian Pack, whose pictures are rendered in the distinctive pochoir style that the Gazette du Bon Ton is known for. 

At the heart of the new menu is also Atlas's very own Atlas London Dry Gin! Taking part in signature cocktails like the Atlas Martini and Atlas French 75, it is said to reflect the bar's lasting dedication to gin and its significant place in cocktail heritage.

Want to re-live the roaring 20s? Now you know where to visit the next time you're in town.

Kanpai!

88 Bamboo Editorial Team