#FindTheLockerRoom

The founding story of Find The Locker Room reads like an industry fantasy: five of Asia's foremost bartenders, each with their own acclaimed venue in a different city, joining forces to open a single collaborative speakeasy in Bangkok. Ronnaporn 'Nueng' Kanivichaporn from Bangkok's Backstage Cocktail Bar. Colin Chia from Singapore's Nutmeg & Clove. Hidetsugo Ueno from Tokyo's Bar High Five. Nick Wu, who placed third in the World Class Cocktail Competition 2016, from Taipei's East End. Together, they built a bar behind a wall of steel gym lockers in a Thonglor shophouse, named it as a set of instructions and dared Bangkok's cocktail drinkers to find them.

That was 2017. The bar has since relocated once and evolved considerably, but the founding DNA remains intact. The entrance – still through a narrow unmarked alley, still requiring you to locate and slide open the right locker – remains the signature ritual. Inside, the two level space gives way to a cocktail menu divided into Past, Present and Future, a founding idea that remains intact even as the drinks change.

Find The Locker Room remains a consistent presence on best-of lists worth reading. It earns its place here not on historical reputation but on continued execution. The OG of the Bangkok speakeasy scene, as one regular described it in a 2024 review, still feels alive and still feels earned.

The drinker this suits: cocktail enthusiasts who appreciate both craft and mischief. Anyone who has ever been delighted to recognise a cultural reference inside a glass.

406 Sukhumvit Soi 55, Thonglor. Open Mon-Sun, 6pm-2am.