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Boyd Chanchai Rodbamrung, winner of the 2013 World Class Cocktail Competition Thailand, runs the stick for the Sugar Ray group behind an unmarked door on Thonglor Soi 1, working a Thai larder of turmeric vodka, black-sesame whiskey and reduced cow fat.
Why go
This is the crew with previous success managing Sugar Ray, Q&A, and Dim Dim
1 (BK Magazine) building their most ambitious room: a 15-meter teak table doubling as the bar under what BK calls a jungle of potted plants and warm orangey lighting,
1 down to engraved porcelain cups. The program is Thai flavor pushed through classic structure, a Sesame Manhattan, a Turmeric Thai Tea BK describes as thick, foamy and fragrant
on vodka and absinthe, and a house O. Leans licorice liqueur made in-house. The current 50 Best Discovery listing still carries it as a top-class example of a modern Asian bar with tropical influences and creative uses of local flavours.
Order this / avoid
- Order: the Turmeric Thai Tea and the Pineapple Spicy Plum, which arrives in a glass rimmed
half-plum, half-chili powder
per BK Magazine; finish on the O. Leans licorice liqueur. - Avoid: looking for a sign on Thonglor Soi 1. The door is unmarked, ground floor of the Salil Hotel.
What locals & experts say
- BK Magazine (2017):
Live DJs every Friday and Saturday, top-notch drinks and a charmingly clandestine setting.
1 - 50 Best Discovery:
a top-class example of a modern Asian bar with tropical influences and creative uses of local flavours, all in an exceedingly stylish yet laid-back setting.
2
Good to know
- Timing: evenings daily per the current listing; DJs Friday and Saturday.
- Booking: walk-in scale; message ahead for weekend groups.
- Getting there: Thonglor Soi 1, near the BTS Thong Lo end of the soi; a natural first or last stop on a Thonglor cocktail night with Dry Wave and #FindTheLockerRoom.
Verdict
could-visit — A Thai-larder cocktail program, cow-fat reductions and turmeric vodka, run by a 2013 World Class Thailand winner in the Sugar Ray family's most polished room. The craft signals are real but rest on opening-era reporting with no list hardware since, so it slots as the Thonglor-cluster add-on: worth the stop when Dry Wave or the Locker Room anchor the night.