Behind some gigantic black doors, upwardly mobile locals sing along to the live rock bands and huddle around bottles of whisky. An elevator leads to the...

Setting for many a genre 'Bangkok novel' about the city's underworld, this three-level complex gets racier the further the bar from the street. Locals...

This survivor of the original RCA explosion looks like a cowboy saloon stranded in ancient China. 'Songs for Life' (Thai blues) fans flock here for live...

Young creatives and Khao San escapees gather on the chilled-out roof terrace for spicy Thai food and views of the floodlit Golden Mount and antics outside...

Spawned from celebrity photographer David Jacobson's original Q Bar Saigon, this slick, New York-style conversion of a house takes off nightly. Superbly...

Stuffed with country and western motifs, this stalwart live pub and restaurant feels more like a little blues bar with pleng puer cheewit sets nightly and...

A Saturday bike meet has ballooned into a huge hip retro night market, with vintage cars, bikes and clothing, loungey stalls, creative knick-knacks and the...

Here, less affluent gays fuelled by Thai whisky and hormones bop to a bewildering succession of Thai and Western hits and hoot at the saucy cabaret.

Any night can be fun at this knocked-through, two-storey, log and beam sculpture. Booze, food, pool and music, with regulars laying down roots, rock,...

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

Soi 4 bars are getting fewer, bigger and smarter. Snop's huge new building keeps its toy-decorated, low-table dish shape surrounding the acoustic/indy...

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,...

Down an alley dubbed Soi Suzie, this US college bar-cum-dance club brought Thai nightlife to Khao San. On weekends travellers and students cram in for the...