StudioLarb

This small Isan kitchen near Phahon Yothin runs on recipes from Nakhon Phanom – the kind that carry a real fermented depth and a seasoning hand you simply cannot replicate – and the room it operates out of doubles as a proper listening bar. Vintage furniture, stacked vinyl crates, a scatter of collected objects on every surface: it lands 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, all played to a room that's usually 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