People-watching terraces spread out from this cheap and cheerful rendezvous, with happy hour prize draws, ultra-familiar staff and chalkboards in the loo...

A snug, low-ceilinged cocktail lounge of 1940s mystique. Despite the long jazz pedigree and fine house band, the US singers have dipped in quality.

From the owners of the Bull's Head, this modernist pub goes against the Japanese grain of Soi Thaniya. It draws expats and westernised Thais with regular...

An old favourite that retains an earthy, clubby ambience, but is getting shabby. Thai and expat musicians and singers reel out jazz covers with often...

This fun Mexican restaurant bar boasts the country's largest selection of tequilas and Margaritas. Among the office crowd, ties loosen over two buzzing...

The sumptuous Distil bar boasts an imposing choice of drinks and cigars, with a breezy bed-lined terrace.

A dark, laid-back Singaporean lounge that's ideal for suits to deal, date, dance or dine (with DJs on Fridays and Saturdays). Barmen scale a two-storey...

A show gay bar with loyal customers, JJ is warm and chatty, with nightly singers (real and lip-sync) and comics. Upstairs it connects via nooks to Club...

Yet another name change for this brass and mahogany pub. It acts as a social embassy for expats, with Irish stew and ales aplenty on tap (including...

An astonishing 200m-high (656-foot) rooftop restaurant, Sirocco boasts unrestrained Greco-Roman architecture and giddying views over Bangkok and the river....

This classy, intimate bar-restaurant has served the gay scene's best food (Thai and foreign) for two decades. Pharaoh's upstairs is a cosy karaoke lounge.

This covered maze holds several thousand stalls of souvenirs and decor items, plus beer gardens, restaurants and events in Bangkok Hall. A cool, convenient,...

Fun and flirty, Bangkok's first Western-style gay bar-restaurant fills its terrace with pretties, expats and tourists. Phones allow cross-room dialling.

Via a dizzying trip in a glazed elevator, you whizz up to this flying saucer-shaped penthouse bar, for a full-circle panorama of both old town and new,...