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Destination · Cocktail bar · Thonglor · $$$

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Supawit "Palm" Muttarattana opened Dry Wave in January 2024 above the SODALITY complex on Thonglor Soi 13, and within eighteen months it stood at No.5 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025, taking the Disaronno Highest New Entry Award on the way in.

Solid · Cocktail bar · Silom · $$$

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Vesper has ranked on Asia's 50 Best Bars every single year since the list began in 2016, and in 2025 the organization handed it the Rémy Martin Legend of the List Award for that streak.

Solid · Thai · Wang Hin · $$

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Jeff calls it his casual local dinner in residential Lat Phrao; the record adds what he leaves out, that the chef won Iron Chef Thailand in 2015 and the room reached No.73 on Asia's 50 Best extended list in 2023.

Solid · Thai (late-night) · Sam Yan · $$

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The most queued-for dish in Bangkok began as the boss's after-work bowl: around 2015, third-generation operator Siri "Hia Gao" Chaitawee started dropping instant mama noodles into his family's tom yum, told curious customers to come back at 11pm, and broke the neighborhood.

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…

Solid · Pork skewers · Silom · $

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Gaggan Anand pays this push cart to roll up to his restaurant after service and grill a thousand skewers for the team, and in Gourmet Traveller he calls its moo ping "the best in Bangkok by…

Solid · Isaan · Phrom Phong · $$

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When service ends at Gaggan, Gaggan Anand walks his kitchen team down Sukhumvit Soi 31 to this Isaan canteen; in his own words, "we go to eat here often with the kitchen team at night after service.

Solid · Cocktail bar · Bangkok · $$$

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Chef Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn named this bar over Nusara for the same person as the restaurant, his late grandmother "Nuss," and staffed the stick through a partnership with Ronnaporn "Neung" Kanivichaporn, the Find the Locker Room and Mahaniyom co-founder Time Out credits as a…

Solid · Craft beer · Ploenchit · $$$

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Mike MacDonald helped found Mikkeller Bangkok and Pete Spalding ran its taps; in 2015 the two Canadians opened their own bar above Mahatun Plaza, and BK Magazine has named it Bangkok's best beer bar two years running, 2024 and 2025.

Solid · Craft beer · Ekkamai · $$$

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Mikkel Borg Bjergso's Copenhagen nomad-brewing brand opened its first bar in Asia in 2014 inside a 1950s Thai residence on an Ekkamai sub-soi, and twelve years later the 30 taps are still pouring in the same garden house, closure rumors notwithstanding.

Solid · Speakeasy cocktail bar · Thonglor · $$$

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Five of Asia's best-known bartenders, Hidetsugu Ueno of Tokyo's Bar High Five, Colin Chia of Singapore's Nutmeg & Clove, Nick Wu of Taipei's East End, and Bangkok's Ronnaporn "Neung" Kanivichaporn and Chennarong Bhumichitr, opened one shared 35-seat bar behind a wall of steel gym…

Solid · Craft beer · Phrom Phong · $$$

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The second Hair of the Dog opened in October 2016 inside the Villa Market parking alley off Sukhumvit 33/1, two floors of the same rare-imports program running all day from 11am, with a dedicated stout fridge and a cocktail bar on the mezzanine; Time Out ranked it No. 1 of Bangkok's…

Solid · Gin distillery bar · Ekkamai · $$$

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Ashley Sutton, the Australian designer behind Maggie Choo's and Sing Sing Theater, put a German copper pot still inside a teak-and-brass nautical den at Park Lane Ekkamai, ferments a coconut and pineapple base, and bottles his Iron Balls gin about 100 at a time.

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.

Listed · Thai-Chinese · Bangkok · $$

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When Bangkok's kitchens close, this 40-year-old Thai-Chinese diner between Sukhumvit Soi 32 and 34 is still ladling salted-plum soup at 3am, and a London chef with a Michelin-going Thai kitchen lists it among his seven Bangkok essentials.

Listed · Thai seafood · Bangkok · $$

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Gaggan Anand ends his own service nights here, telling Gourmet Traveller he arrives between 1am and 2am with his team to "tear into kilos of prawns and lots of fresh crab" at a stall that cooks until 4am inside Huai Khwang's night market.

Listed · Cocktail bar · Ekkamai · $$$

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The 2014 bar that seeded Bangkok's indie speakeasy wave, parent crew of Q&A, Thaipioka and Alonetogether, no longer lives in Ekkamai: it now hides inside the Octo Seafood Bar complex on Sukhumvit 24, behind a door you find by locating the staff member in medieval costume.

Listed · Cocktail bar · Thonglor · $$$

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Rabbit Hole opened behind an unmarked wooden door on Thonglor in 2016, hit No. 31 on Asia's 50 Best Bars in 2020, and turned ten in 2026, which counts as elder-statesman status in Bangkok's fast-churning cocktail scene.

Listed · Modern international · Silom · $$$

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Australian siblings Darren and Cherie Hausler opened Eat Me off Convent Road in 1998, it debuted at No. 19 on the inaugural Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2013, and the Michelin Guide Thailand 2026 selection still carries it.

Listed · Late-night bar / live jazz · Sathorn · $$

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David Jacobson, the founder of Q Bar, opened Smalls in 2014 across three floors of a corner townhouse on Suan Phlu Soi 1, hung it with his own contemporary-art collection, stripped the walls to brick, and made absinthe the house pour.

Listed · Korean fried chicken · Bangkok · $$

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Ted Ahn came to Bangkok from Changwon, South Korea for an office job, opened a craft beer bar named after his hometown at MRT Phetchaburi in 2015, brewed two beers that won World Beer…

Listed · Cocktail bar · Bangkok · $$

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The teams behind Ku Bar and Sugar Ray merged crews in 2019 to open a two-story shophouse jazz room on Sukhumvit 31, named for the Chet Baker standard and stocked with a record store and cigar lounge upstairs.

Listed · Italian · Phrom Phong · $$$

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Giancarlo and his son Nicola opened this Soi 27 wine room in 2004 to promote Italian bottles, the kitchen grew into the point, and Michelin's listing now reads like a cellar inventory: "a…

Listed · Night market · Huai Khwang · $

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This market strip on Pracharat Bamphen Road runs until 4am, feeding taxi drivers and night workers at the MRT's doorstep, and Jeff counts it among the last proper night markets left in Bangkok.

Listed · Japanese · Silom · $$

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Three Japanese brands share one 150-seat floor where Thaniya meets Surawong Road: Shakariki 432, the Osaka izakaya chain that started in Asoke in 2012, plus Joto Curry's katsu plates and Tenyo's ramen, with the branch page claiming hours of 11am to 7am the next morning.

Listed · Modern bistro / wine · Bangkok · $$$

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Kunanun Lertpisiku, off the team behind Asok Pi Shop, cooks pastas, flatbreads, and a seasonal card in a tucked-away Sukhumvit 31 wine room that hands its kitchen to a different guest chef each week.

Listed · Craft beer · Bangkok · $$

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Beer Republic is the ground-floor beer hall of the Holiday Inn at Chidlom, a 1920s-industrial room stocking over 70 labels from Singha to rotating craft draughts, steps from the BTS.