Microscopic yet infinitely expandable, this outdoor bar consists of just a few stools around a counter obscured by a thicket of eccentric ephemera....
1 Sukhumvit Soi 11This fun Mexican restaurant bar boasts the country's largest selection of tequilas and Margaritas. Among the office crowd, ties loosen over two buzzing...
Sivadon Building, 1/2 Thanon ConventA premier live jazz lounge. Floral installations by Sakul Intakul offset dark wood and backlit silk in this lofty den for deal-making and rendezvous. The...
Conrad Bangkok Hotel, All Seasons PlaceThe sumptuous Distil bar boasts an imposing choice of drinks and cigars, with a breezy bed-lined terrace.
LeBua at State Tower, 63rd floor
Chef-patron Fabio Colautti has Gucci-ised a house to create this power restaurant and its wine bar, Glass. The glazed octagon is the zone to book. Decent...
16 Sukhumvit Soi 23Daek naew (indie youth) are happy daily at this garden-bar tucked away at the front of a building housing the pop culture mag a day. DJs spin eclectic...
Corner of Ekamai Soi 10
A pioneer of this hip bar/restaurant strip, Hemlock maintains a near-Mediterranean breeziness (whitewashed walls and a rock-strewn interior). Exhibitions...
56 Thanon Phra Arthit
Tucked in an alley of used-book shops, the retro-kitsch Hippie attracts not hippies but young, alternative Thais. Mismatched furniture, quirky wall hangings...
46 Thanon Khao SanA 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...
Ascott SathornA totemic space as dilapidated and charming as New York's CBGBs or the Garage in London, Immortal Bar embraces any underground band (send demo) especially...
Bayon Building, 1st floor
With India booming, this club-restaurant stages periodic arm-flailing Bhangra parties with live drumming plus star Indian DJs in its dance-bar. Out front,...
71 Sukhumvit Soi 26
The revival and global fame of Thai silk owes much to Jim Thompson, a US architect who came to Thailand at the end of World War II with the OSS (now the...
6 Kasemsan Soi 2
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...
8/3 Silom Soi 2
Drums occupy a quarter of the room in this tiny venue, formerly called Lullabar, at a charmingly weathered wooden house down an old town lane. Sup from the...
Mahannop Soi 1
The views stretch even longer than the 24-metre teak shared table at this chic Thai-meets-Western concept, initially spawned from Bed Supperclub. Hi-so...
Column Building, 25th floor