After being forced to close its doors on Dec 31 (due to the landlord wanting to build another condo), the Locker Room is about to rise from the dead.
The speakeasy, whose original incarnation notoriously sat behind a wall of grungy lockers, is set to return "somewhere in Thonglor" in "mid-February" according to a flyer doing the social media rounds. One of the bar's partners, Colin Chia (also of Singapore's Nutmeg & Clove), posted the following to Instagram:
In its brief, social media-free lifetime, the bar led by some of Asia's top mixology talents proved it was worth the hype, delivering innovative reinterpretations of classic drinks. Just last November, The Locker Room won the Best Drinks category in BK's debut B.A.D. Awards 2017, for which we praised their concoctions for tasting "so outstanding that you don’t have to be a cocktail-snob to enjoy them." Watch this space.
In the meantime, here's our video of the old Locker Room: