Bangkok's best bars and eateries to watch the World Cup with your peers

City-dwellers are already familiar with Siwilai City Club’s famous beach club-inspired alfresco balcony, which is showing every match from a big screen. If you’d rather watch in an indoor setting, the club has a classy lounge with a sports bar on one corner, where LCD screens live-air your favorite World Cup matches. Check out the screening schedule on its Facebook page.

5th floor, Central Embassy, 1031 Ploenchit Rd, 02-160-5631. Open daily 11:00-24:00. www.facebook. com/siwilaicityclub

72 Courtyard’s brew haven, Beer Belly, is tapping into the World Cup hype by screening the daily football matches from now until 15 July. Come in a big group to enjoy its special World Cup package, which starts from B3,999 for two threeliter beer towers and selected eats.

1st floor, 72 Courtyard, Thonglor, 02-392-7770. Open daily 17:00-02:00.

Siwilai City Club’s rival, Escape Bangkok, is also keeping up with the World Cup craze. Its Tapas Bar zone is screening all matches for the duration of the games. Check out the schedule and promotions in the club’s Facebook page.

5th floor, Emquartier, Sukhumvit Rd., 02-258-6515. Open daily 17:00-24:00. www.facebook.com/EscapeBangkok

The surf house-meets-beer bar will be screening all matches, and offering selective beer-on-tap promotions. (They had buy-3-get- 1-free for the Korea game). More updates on its Facebook page.

2nd floor, Flow House, A-Square, 120/1 Soi Sukhumvit 26, 085-127-9009. Open daily 17:00- 24:00. www.facebook.com/changwonexpress

The 24-hour burger joint offers a buy-one-get-one-free promo on sides, beers and cocktails between 15:00 and 17:00 to get you ready for the games. And if you stay up until the last match, a buy-two-drinksget- free-side deal is available from midnight till three o’clock.

Pullman Bangkok Hotel G, 188 Silom Rd., 02-352-4192. Open 24 hours

Bunker has dedicated its third floor to World Cup screenings throughout the season. Enjoy a special promotion which offers a bucket of five bottles of beer and chicken wings at B750.

118/2 Soi Sathorn 12, 092-563-9991. Open daily 17:30-01:00

The newly opened sports bar on the second floor of 8 on Eleven complex comes complete with a pool table, foosball, beer pong and everything you need to watch sports games and enjoy the rest of the night. Throughout this World Cup season, the bar is giving a ten percent discount to patrons dressed in World Cup team jerseys. (Did we mention that the bar provides the access to secret drinking den Find the Photobooth?)

2nd floor, 8 on Eleven, 14 Sukhumvit Soi 11, 02-117-2636. Open daily 17:00-02:00