Somewhere Bookshop and Home Cafe

The Instagram bio says it all: ‘Cafe & Bookshop For Sad People’. The red door opens into a flower-adorned, deliberately cosy space stocking self-published Thai and English titles for sad (and not so sad) people. In the pages, writing that doesn't make it to the chains, by writers who needed to say something and say it regardless. 

The cafe serves drinks alongside the books, nothing elaborate, nothing trying too hard. If you need to be somewhere with books, this is a good somewhere to be.

Soi Phetchasem 12, Bangkok Yai. Near MRT Tha Phra Exit 3. Open Thu–Sun 11am–7pm. No car parking