Forget peanuts or pork scratchings. Bars these days are competing for the drinker's dollar with increasingly imaginative food and the global trend toward smokeless venues is creating pleasant environments in which to savor it. In Singapore, a cluster of gastrobars, as they're called, are becoming dining destinations in their own right, dishing out the likes of o-toro sashimi and Boston lobster to famished partygoers.
Located in a prewar Chinatown shophouse, the Majestic Bar, www.majesticbar.com , sports a menu that includes black-pepper crocodile puff, perfectly fried oysters accompanied by four sauces,...