We count down the best places to eat in Thonglor
Sushi, tapas or som tum—Thonglor is a utopia for the gastrophile offering a myriad of dining venues from cozy cafes to high-end restaurants to open-all-night street stalls.
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Chiang Mai’s beloved burger virtuoso, Beast Burger, set up its first food truck in 2014. The venture quickly gained a huge following from burger enthusiasts around the city. Now, armed with confidence, the folks behind this burger joint aspires to build up its name and reputation in Bangkok’s competitive food scene.
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Do not confuse this small restaurant with the well-known Singaporean chain. This local eatery is one of your best bets in Bangkok for savoring authentic Hainanese chicken rice. The rice is moist, garlicky and perfectly cooked, and the chicken is tender and juicy. The extensive menu also includes dishes like roasted duck, stir-fried morning glory and pork ribs in Chinese herbal soup.
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Buoy Pochana This shophouse restaurant has been offering delightful, stringy noodle bites with braised goose and duck for nearly two decades. Choose from a variety of noodles and served with tender poultry in sweet and salty broth.
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Tucked away in busy Thonglor, the quiet and cozy Dreamloft feels like a visit to a posh friend’s home. A living room filled with comfy sofa beds welcomes guests, while TV with Bluetooth headphones, a spacious pool room, and a library encased in glass are meant to entertain.
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In a city where Colonel Sander’s fast-food chain and Korean hot spot Bon Chon have long established dominion over the realm of fried chicken, Chirayu Na Ranong, the man behind brunch establishment Chu, looks to introduce spice-loving locals to the aggressively fiery flavors of America’s deep south. Taking over the space where Xiao Chi used to roll out Chinese-inspired street grub at The Commons, Fowlmouth serves up Nashville-style sizzling chicken (i.e., delicious, chili-spiked slabs of poultry that scorch the lips and satisfy spicy-food cravings).
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Owned and operated by Boontham Parkpho and Banthoon Chuphla, two of the most venerable figures in Thailand’s sushi scene, Honmono features hearty bites and portions of meticulously crafted nigiri and sashimi.
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This humble street food fixture, which has been featured on numerous television shows the world over, is known for two things: pad thai and hoy tord (oyster pancake). While both are scrumptious, our vote goes to the dish it’s named for. The hoy tord here is served two ways—crispy or gooey—and both are cooked to perfection. Don’t forget to dip your pancake into their house-made chili sauce.
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The owner, Chef Kenji Nakayama, loves to experiment with flavors to come up with novel takes on classic Japanese dishes. For example, samna no kunsei (smoked mackerel) is combined with parsley to create a well-balanced grilled dish or a very minimalist version of Japanese pasta. Chef Kenji also prefers to pair certain drinks with his dishes to help enhance their flavor. We highly recommend heeding his suggestions.
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This khao gaeng (Thai curry with rice) offers more than 20 variations of scrumptious eats to Thonglor crowds. The eatery opens at 5:00 and the food is likely to be sold out in three hours, making it an ideal spot for khao gaeng breakfast.
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This Cantonese-style noodle shack, situated at the beginning of Soi Sukhumvit 55, has been serving freshly made egg noodles for almost six decades. Pair your stringy bites with filling proteins like roasted duck, barbecued pork or crispy pork belly. Things get extremely busy in the afternoon.
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The family-run Khua Kling + Pak Sod offers traditional southern Thai home cooking in a pleasant ambience.
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Thonglor may be a culinary haven offering a gamut of local and international dining options, but it is sadly missing a go-to for northern Thai cuisine, which is distinctively known for mouth-watering dishes elevated by aromatic herbs. Kruajiangmai finally fills in the gap. Starting out as a delivery service, the specialty-food purveyor has opened a standalone restaurant in Thonglor, becoming the only establishment in the area that’s dedicated to Lanna cuisine.
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A spate of restaurants and bars have been opening in Thonglor this year but only very few have managed to make us burble over with excitement like this humble pasta joint by husband-and-wife restaurateurs Choti and Debby Leenutaphong, the driving forces behind two of the city’s most acclaimed upscale dining institutions: Vesper and Il Fumo.
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A cloud kitchen dedicated to serving hot and spicy Chinese fare with the mala stir-fried dish as the main star you have to try.
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Boston-based chef personalities Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette are behind the Bangkok outpost of Spanish restaurant Toro at 72 Courtyard. Recently, the culinary duo has replaced the modern tapas bar with Little Donkey, a Boston-born eatery that champions a more playful approach to casual dining.
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Mexican burros are missing from the streets of Bangkok, just like the true taste of Mexican fare. Perhaps the best place to find the poor donkey is at a small cantina tucked within the bustling Thonglor neighborhood. The Missing Burro is the brainchild of two Mexican foodie brothers, Itzco and Tlahui Calva, who are looking to introduce Bangkok to the authentic flavors of their motherland.
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This eatery whips up hot and spicy Isaan dishes like somtum, grilled pork jowls and spicy bamboo shoot salad, but the crowd favorite is the perfectly tender pork liver tossed with toasted rice, herb and spices. The restaurant is also known for its jaew horn, the northeast Thai appropriation of sukiyaki served with spicy dipping sauce.
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Having tempted plara (fermented fish) and chili-loving taste bud in Saladaeng as well as some international mega cities, Somtum Der recently opens the door to the second domestic branch in the heart of bustling Thonglor.
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Instead of having star chefs represent its restaurant, Supanniga Eating Room lets its food speak for itself. And it works. Since it’s inception in 2015 in a multi-level shophouse in Thonglor (and later in Sathorn), the kitchens of Supanniga Eating Room have faithfully followed the recipes handed down through generations within its founders’ families. One of the secrets to Suppaniga’s success is the use of only the best ingredients from all over Thailand, including fish sauce and shrimp from the east.
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This understated café is highly popular among Japanese expats for its freshly baked breads and pastries, as well as its lunch sets, which come with one main dish such as Japanese-style beef curry with rice or Asian-style noodles, soup, salad and one drink.
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* A 10% discount is offered to takeaway orders.
This café in a hidden corner at The Ei8ht Thonglor mall sets to become the neighborhood’s new hideaway. Inspired by Claude Monet’s landscape paintings, The Blooming Gallery is nestled in a glasshouse teeming with lush greenery — every corner is decorated with potted plants and flowers (all for sale).
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Brave Roaster: Space Oddity combines a café, co-working space and beer bar in one massive space. Located on the second floor of the recently revamped hangout complex Seen Space, the space is clearly a café manifestation of the David Bowie song “Space Oddity,” featuring a minimalist loft space with nothing other than polished mortar, and black and white furnishing.
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Thonglor’s favorite coffee house has branched out to the old town, taking up space on the first floor of Bank of Thailand Learning Center. Fans can still indulge in the café’s best-sellers including coffee brewed from house-blends (add B15 for premium beans), Thai-style iced coffee (B45), and hot Ceylon milk tea (B55). The menu also includes comfort dishes like bolognese spaghetti (B85), crab fried rice (B85) and balsamic salad (B85).
Thonglor’s favorite coffee house that offers a spot for those with specialty coffee passions
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Four years after launching their brand, the brains behind loose-leaf tea specialist TE, Nanthida Ratanakul and Nattakit Udomsrirat, have opened their first brick-and-mortar tea café called TE Time and Space. Nestled in a multi-story building on Soi Thonglor 25 (a strategic location that’s accessible to Japanese housewives and Bangkok’s affluent creative minds), the modern tea house offers a holistic tea-drinking experience amidst a serene, light-filled space.
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