The 50 Best bars that build drinks from pandan, kaffir lime, fermented rice and Thai spirits, sourced in the country they are poured in.
Thai-ingredient cocktail bars.
The rooms, best first
- Bar Usverified
Builds the savory mains on local-farm guava leaf, green chili and makrut lime.
- Tep Barverified
Pours house-infused ya dong in flights of three and builds about 80 percent of the list on Thai liquor.
- Ku Barverified
Builds a monthly list from fresh-market produce, with the 10 Herb on jub liang herbal tea and gin.
- Nuss Barverified
Pours a lychee gimlet on Mork Mung Muang spirit from Mae Hong Son and a white Negroni on Sakthong corn.
- Iron Balls Distillery & Barverified
Distills its gin on site from a fermented coconut and pineapple base, then pours it in a bael-fruit sour.
- Sugar Ray, You've Just Been Poisonedverified
Born and Raised runs Thai tea-infused gin with pandan syrup, mandarin and lime.
- Rabbit Holeverified
The Bangkok pours Thai spirit and rum over a coconut pandan shrub with coconut milk mousse.
- Thaipiokaverified
Infuses its own turmeric vodka and black-sesame whiskey and makes the O. Leans licorice liqueur in house.