StudioLarb

This small Isan kitchen near Phahon Yothin runs on recipes from Nakhon Phanom, the kind with real fermented depth and a seasoning hand you simply cannot fake. The room doubles as a proper listening bar: vintage furniture, stacked vinyl crates and collected objects on almost every surface, landing somewhere between a regular's den and a record collector's flat. The turntable moves through jazz, hip-hop, reggae, luk krung and Thai classical, usually to a room mid-bowl of nam tok and nodding along to something from 1974.

StudioLarb 2/9 Phahon Yothin Rd., Phaya Thai. Open daily except Wed 5pm–midnight. Tel. 064 586 6029