Old Town (Rattanakosin)
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Restaurants7
Nusara★
Destination · Thai fine dining · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $$$$
booking essential
Asia's 50 Best ranks Nusara No.5 on the continent in 2026, and the menu is a grandmother's: Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn and his brother Tam opened it in 2020 to honor the woman who raised them, named it after her, and serve her recipes in a shophouse looking straight at Wat Pho.
Raan Jay Fai★
Destination · Thai-Chinese wok · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $$$
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Supinya "Jay Fai" Junsuta cooks every order herself over charcoal braziers in ski goggles, and her open shophouse on Maha Chai Road has held one Michelin star in every Thailand guide since the first edition in 2018, a street stall standing in a one-star list that also carries Gaggan…
ThipsamaiBib
Solid · Pad thai · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $
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Pad thai was a state project, promoted nationwide by Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram's government in the 1940s, and Thipsamai grew up beside the campaign: founder Samai sold noodles from a boat on the Phasi Charoen canal during World War II, set up at the Pratu Phi intersection…
Krua Apsorn @Dinso
Solid · Thai (home-style) · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $$
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Founder Chanchawee "Aunt Daeng" Sakunkan cooked a 1969 reception for the Princess Mother, spent the next 25-plus years as her personal chef, and since 1996 has sold that repertoire from a plain dining room where the crab omelette costs B120.
Pad Thai Fai Ta Lu @Dinso Rd
Solid · Pad thai · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $
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Andy Yang won a Michelin star in New York with Rhong-Tiam in the 2010 guide, watched his Bangkok chef's table Table 38 take one in the Thailand 2020 guide, and in between opened this Dinso Road shophouse to cook pad thai over a flame so fierce he named the shop for it: fai ta lu, the…
Por. Pochaya
Listed · Thai-Chinese · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $$
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A third-generation Thai-Chinese kitchen on Wisut Kasat Road cooks for four hours a day, Monday to Friday, 9am to 1pm, and Michelin's inspectors say the crowds mean you should book anyway.
Sae Phun
Listed · Chicken rice · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $
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This Tanao Road shophouse has poured the same thick chicken gravy over rice since 1926, a recipe the family calls lhok nga thin, and the door wears Michelin Bib Gourmand stickers for every year from 2019 to 2025.
Cocktails1
Ku Bar
Solid · Cocktail bar · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $$$
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Anupas "Kong" Premanuwat spent five years mixing at New York's Angel's Share, then came home and opened a bar on the third floor of an old Phra Sumen Road printing house where the menu changes monthly and he names every drink for the one market ingredient that leads it.
Wine1
Mayrai Padthai | Winebarjust added
Listed · Natural wine bar · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $$$
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Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn, whose Le Du would go on to rank No. 1 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants in 2023, opened this pad thai and natural wine bar in January 2020 on the second floor of a 200-year-old building by Wat Pho, selling his grandmother's recipe from B79 a plate.
Bakes & sweet1
K. Panich Sticky Rice
Solid · Mango sticky rice · Old Town (Rattanakosin) · $
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Since 1932 this Tanao Road shophouse has sold sticky rice from a recipe Time Out traces to the owner's grandmother, who cooked in the royal kitchen under Rama V and VI, and the mango version is the only one in Bangkok's Bib Gourmand list.
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