The best things to do in Bangkok this weekend (November 6-9)

Malee Naree, also known as Watcharakoranan Panya, paints like she’s decoding human contradiction. In her exhibition In Layers, each piece slips between tenderness and tenacity, dream and daylight, revealing how the human spirit is stitched together with both grit and grace. The closing work, I Am a Robot, plays with the edges of identity, asking what happens when technology starts to mimic our emotions a little too well. Yet beneath the metallic glint lies something deeply human.

Until November 30. Free. Blacklist Gallery, 10am-6pm

Grief in Thailand has taken on a quiet elegance. The loss of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother, has drawn the country into reflection – not only on a monarch’s life, but on a woman who stitched beauty and meaning together with remarkable care. For decades she balanced grace with gravity, fashion with purpose, her choices turning fabric into quiet acts of diplomacy. The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles marks this moment with Decades of Style: The Royal Wardrobe of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, an exhibition that feels almost devotional. Gowns by Balmain hang beside handwoven Thai silk, each piece carrying the weight of history and the tenderness of touch. 

Until November 8. Free. Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles, 9am-4.30pm (last entry at 3.30pm)

Midweek salvation arrives courtesy of Lush Division, back at Bar Temp. with Lensy and Pragueputth manning the decks. This isn't background music for polite conversation – it's disco, house and minimal house designed to make you forget Wednesday exists entirely. The kind of night where sweat becomes social currency and flirting feels mandatory rather than optional. Consider it therapy, except louder, better dressed and with infinitely superior sound systems. Your colleagues might wonder why you're glowing on Friday morning. Let them wonder. Some revelations require keeping Wednesday nights sacred, and this is precisely the sort of hedonistic homework worth committing to. Move your body. Question nothing.

November 6. B200 at the door. Bar Temp., 9pm onwards 

Think of it as summer camp for people who actually understand chord progressions. This festival blends concerts with songwriting sessions, pulling producers, artists and lyricists from every corner of the planet. On November 7, catch Phum Viphurit, Landokmai, Dopameen and Arabelle; November 9 brings Bowkylion's full band performance. The vibe skews intimate rather than stadium-sized – proper performances where you can actually see facial expressions and stolen glances between band members. This is where industry professionals and devoted fans occupy the same space, swapping theories about bridge structures over drinks. 

November 7. B999 via here. 515 Victory Bangkok, 5pm onwards

Tsai Kuen-Lin's solo exhibition does something radical: it makes rivers audible. During his residency, the artist submerged recording equipment beneath the Chao Phraya River, Ping River and Ang Kaew Lake, capturing underwater symphonies most of us will never hear. Mae Nam – Mother Water – treats these recordings as living archives rather than ambient noise. What makes this particularly compelling is his material shift: gone are the PVC pipes from earlier outdoor works, replaced now with clay and ceramics embedded with traces from those exact recording sites. Sound becomes tangible; earth meets liquid. It's an exhibition that asks you to reconsider water not as backdrop but as protagonist, carrying memories of communities who've shaped and been shaped by its currents. Wind, earth, water, fire – all four elements collapsed onto gallery walls, whispering stories we've forgotten how to hear.

Until January 10. Free. SAC Gallery, 11am-6pm

Biliguudei makes his HORN Bangkok debut, and if you're unfamiliar with Mongolia's underground scene, prepare for an education. The DJ, promoter and organiser has spent years building his country's electronic music infrastructure from scratch – no small feat when you're working outside established club circuits. His sets lean heavily on percussion-driven techno. Joining him: Sijin, a Seoul-based producer who treats genre boundaries as polite suggestions rather than rules, and Bangkok's own Sweed, whose composer background means he understands tension and release better than most. Mongolia to Seoul to Bangkok – cartography has never sounded quite so vital.

November 7. B500 via here and B700 at the door. HORN, 10pm onwards

The magic’s back, and this time it comes with a live orchestra. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban returns to the big screen, only this isn’t your usual rewatch. ALCOPOP and Five Four Live are teaming up with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra to bring the film’s third chapter to life – quite literally. As the story unfolds on a 40-foot screen, every sweep of John Williams’ score will be performed live, conducted by Timothy Henty. Expect the trembling strings when the Dementors arrive, the brass that lifts the broomsticks and the haunting melodies that made growing up at Hogwarts feel monumental. It’s nostalgia, sharpened and reimagined, where cinema meets symphony and you remember exactly why the magic never really left.

November 8-9. B1,200-4,000 via here. Prince Mahidol Hall, Mahidol University.

What began as a modest night has stretched its limbs across two evenings, morphing into something between a fairground and a fever dream. Over 100 vendors will set up camp – cannabis growers beside kratom brewers, wellness gurus beside people who just really like loud guitars. It’s less a market, more a conversation about what ‘sustainable’ looks like when fun is part of the brief. ChangChui’s grounds split neatly into three worlds: healing, battle and stoner. One offers herbal workshops and massages, another swaps gloves for guitars, and the last hums with smoke and basslines. Expect headliners like Srirajah Rockers, Desktop Error, Bomb at Track and Rejizz, but the real intrigue sits with Nudkinpuk’s next act – a carnival with dirt under its nails.

November 8-9. B150 via here. ChangChui Creative Park, 4pm-midnight

MŌCANA returns for its third edition at Lhong 1919, which remains one of Bangkok's few heritage sites that actually earns the title. This year's focus: watching artists dismantle and rebuild notions of tradition through aggressively contemporary work. Kaewtrakan J., Arjinjonathan, Templeboy VI, A-Po Silawit, Paphawee J., XD49 Limited, DFIFTY and SEIRE all contribute pieces that refuse to treat heritage as museum fodder. The MŌCANA Collection – a collaboration between Siam Circle and Maewkhoo – anchors the exhibition, whilst live performances from Song Ravinan, Finale Alinfini, Pie Arisara and Elle ensure you're not just staring at walls all evening. MŌCANA Sound and Tuktuk Radio handle the sonic curation, because even contemplative art viewing requires a proper soundtrack. Call it preservation through reinvention, or just call it overdue.

November 8-10. B1,111 via here and B1,500 at the door. Lhong 1919, 6pm onwards

Farangs Gone Wild – Bangkok's self-appointed meme lords who've turned their Tiny Sesh UK Garage series into reliably sold-out affairs – are staging a 12-hour poolside marathon at Blue Parrot. Expect organic house and Afro-house sets, a live band for when DJs need hydration breaks, and tattoo roulette for anyone whose decision-making skills evaporate around hour seven. They're also launching The FGW Super Squishy, a frozen cocktail whose tagline ‘built for bad ideas and good times’ functions as both marketing copy and legal disclaimer. This crew has spent months perfecting the art of organised bedlam – events that feel anarchic whilst remaining just structured enough that everyone actually gets home. 

November 8. B500-B3,200 via here. Blue Parrot Bangkok, 3pm-2am

Nakadia – who's spent years exporting Thai techno across 70 countries, from Berlin basements to Ibiza's unnervingly beautiful sunrises – returns home for a Mustache appearance that feels slightly overdue. Hypnotic grooves anchor her sets, preventing them from tipping towards empty aggression. Sophistakid and Andre Pillar round out the lineup, both capable of holding their own before the main event. It's rare to catch Nakadia on home turf these days; her schedule reads like an ambitious gap year that never actually ended. 

November 8. B500 via here and B700 at the door. Mustache Bangkok, 10pm onwards

Japanese street artist Aruta Soup makes his significant Thai solo debut with work that refuses to take itself too seriously – a rarity in contemporary art spaces that often mistake solemnity for depth. His paintings marry free-flowing linework with colours that practically vibrate off the canvas, capturing a specific kind of joyful energy that feels increasingly difficult to manufacture. At the centre sits ‘ZERO,’ his bandaged rabbit character who's become something of a mascot for optimism despite looking like he's recently survived something unfortunate. The rabbit represents fresh starts and hope, which sounds almost painfully earnest until you see how Aruta Soup renders it: with enough playfulness to undercut any potential schmaltz. It's street art that's migrated indoors without losing its original spirit – still accessible, still speaking to connection rather than exclusion.

November 8-December 21. Free. Maison JE Bangkok, 11am-7pm

Santiago Zarzosa's exhibition tackles gravity and energy through abstracts that actually earn the term. His large-scale paintings feature poured pigment cascading downwards, balancing fluidity against density whilst spontaneity wrestles with control. He reads these collisions as metaphors for masculine and feminine forces: opposing, attracting, completing each other without requiring resolution. Meanwhile, his Geometrical Explorations series shifts register entirely. Here, graphite, charcoal and watercolour create delicate frameworks where ruler-drawn precision meets improvisational gesture. One hand measures; the other improvises. The resulting pieces map internal landscapes rather than external ones, charting where calculated thought and instinct meet without either dominating. It's work that resists easy categorisation, which feels appropriate for an artist examining dualities. Call it philosophy rendered in pigment, or just call it unusually thoughtful painting that doesn't apologise for its ambitions.

Until November 30. Free. Matdot Gallery, 10am-6pm

Every second Sunday, TK Park transforms into unofficial headquarters for board game devotees who've decided screens can wait. The setup works whether you're arriving alone (someone will adopt you within minutes), attempting a low-pressure date (competitive Catan reveals character faster than months of texting), or reconnecting with mates you've been meaning to see for weeks. Nobody's judging your strategy, though they might question your decision. Bring snacks if you're thoughtful, bring enthusiasm if you're not. Either way, you'll leave having remembered why humans invented games long before they invented phones.

November 9. Free. TK Park, Central World, 11am-5pm

A week before Loy Krathong, the Golden Mount in Bangkok glows brighter than usual. Wat Saket, perched high above the old town, hosts its annual temple fair – a tradition that feels part pilgrimage, part street carnival. At dawn on the first day, monks and locals begin their ascent, carrying a long red cloth up the winding staircase to wrap around the stupa, a ritual said to bring merit and good fortune. As night falls, the air thickens with incense, laughter and the sound of temple drums echoing over the city. Food stalls spill across the grounds, fortune tellers set up beside ferris wheels, and the view from the top turns Bangkok’s sprawl into a sea of lanterns. It’s old Bangkok at its most alive.

October 29-November 7. Free. Wat Saket, 7am-midnight

Every week the space reshuffles itself, hosting something unexpected: a khon dancer framed by candlelight one evening, a jazz quartet improvising beside a wall of canvases the next. It’s a small creative pocket where traditional Thai instruments meet electric guitars, and conversation hums somewhere between art talk and after-hours gossip. The adjoining flower shop spills colour and scent across the room, softening the edges of the gallery’s concrete walls. It’s the sort of spot that doesn’t shout about itself – you stumble in for a drink, stay for the performance, and leave feeling like you’ve witnessed Bangkok breathe in real time.

Until November 7. Free. L’On Bangkok, 6pm onwards

This exhibition is a mirror held up to a country suspended in uncertainty. In Thailand, instability has stopped feeling like an interruption and begun to resemble a permanent state – politics without direction, policies that drift, and a population caught between fatigue and quiet despair. Anxiety Storage and Artsaveworld respond to this condition with work that wears irony as armour. At first glance their pieces seem playful, even comic, but beneath the surface is an unmistakable weight: frustration, grief, the stubborn refusal to collapse. What makes the show distinctly Thai is its humour, born out of contradiction and absurdity, a coping mechanism that lets people laugh in order to keep standing. In the cracks of satire, fragments of hope remain.

Until November 16. Free. MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

Ghost 2568 feels like a haunting farewell – the last in a trilogy of Bangkok’s most quietly radical art events. This year’s edition, Wish We Were Here, curated by Amal Khalaf, follows previous chapters by Korakrit Arunanondchai and Christina Li. It unfolds along the Chao Phraya River, where screens, performances and whispers of movement question what survival looks like when space for freedom keeps shrinking. The works speak of homes that vanish, of longing that refuses to. It’s an elegy for what’s been lost and a love letter to what remains: connection, imagination, and defiance. More than a festival, Ghost feels like a shared hallucination – one that asks how we might still belong, even as the city keeps slipping from our grasp.

October 15-November 15. Free. Bangkok CityCity Gallery, 11am-7pm 

Buckle turns ten this year. The exhibition charts a decade of the Buckle collection, tracing the spark of its rebellious beginnings and its evolution into a streetwear staple. Each corner of the space tells a story, from early sketches that defied convention to bold pieces that carved their own rulebook. The archives invite a closer look at the textures, cuts and unexpected details that made Buckle a fixture in fashion capitals, while moments of the collection are frozen in display, like snapshots of style history. Walking through feels like wandering through someone else’s diary, only one filled with attitude, creativity and a knack for making the ordinary feel unapologetically iconic.

Until November 16. G/F, Central Embassy, 10am-10pm

A four-month experiment that asks what happens when those guiding us through exhibitions stop being mere explainers and start becoming storytellers, confidants, maybe even co-conspirators. Curated by Pongsakorn Yananissorn, the programme gathers twelve hosts – to rethink how knowledge moves through art spaces. Through workshops and shared encounters, they explore what lingers after the lights dim and the last viewer drifts out. The focus rests not on the artworks alone but on the people orbiting them: the artists, the visitors, the community that quietly sustains it all. GHost 2568 turns the act of guiding into something intimate and alive – a reminder that art, at its best, is a conversation still unfolding.

Until November 16. Free. Bangkok Citycity Gallery, 11am-6pm

Pasutt Kanrattanasutra’s latest project builds one tile and one conversation at a time. The exhibition transforms ceramic painting into a communal act, inviting volunteers to leave their mark across 50 tiles, each representing a district of Bangkok. Lines twist and colours bloom, shaped by shared stories of change, memory and belonging. What emerges is less a map than a living archive, where everyday voices replace curators and the city itself becomes collaborator. It’s a gentle rebellion against forgetting, stitching fragments of neighbourhood life into something tactile and enduring. More than an artwork, it feels like a gathering – a reminder that cities aren’t only built from concrete, but from the hands and histories of those who call them home.

Until November 9. Free. MunMun Srinakarin, 11am-7pm

If you’ve ever tumbled into a Junji Ito spiral at 2am, you’ll know his horror isn’t about sudden shocks. It’s the kind that worms under your skin and refuses to leave, lingering long after the page is closed. Think cursed beauties that regenerate no matter how many times they’re destroyed, balloon-headed predators dangling from nooses, and entire towns spiralling into obsession. The Junji Ito Collection Horror House brings those worlds to Bangkok, a walk-through that turns manga dread into something physical, sprawling over 1,500 square metres. Tomie’s ruinous charm and Souichi’s nail-chewing mischief are ready to greet visitors. The real kicker? Ito himself lands on October 11 at SF Cinema, MBK, a chance to meet the mind behind the nightmares and feel, just a little, like fiction is bleeding into life.

October 10-January 5. B300-1,000 via here. MBK Centre, 11am-8pm

For the first time, the Prix Pictet has arrived in Thailand, bringing with it 12 photographers whose work has been shortlisted for the award’s tenth cycle. The theme, ‘Human’, is both vast and uncomfortably precise. Each artist approaches it from a different angle, tracing the mess and wonder of being alive – whether through documentary, portrait, or images that test the very limits of light. The subjects are unflinching: the violence of borders, the fragility of childhood, the slow collapse of economies, the endurance of Indigenous communities, the marks left behind by industry. Collectively, they ask who we are and what we have done to the planet entrusted to us. Founded seventeen years ago, the Prix Pictet has never felt more urgent.

Until November 23. Free. Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

Thursday nights in Bangkok now come with a side of belly laughs. The Comedy Joint’s weekly takeover of The Live Lounge isn’t the kind of evening where a nervous stranger reads half-written jokes from their phone. It’s slickly produced, confidently staged and has quietly turned into the heartbeat of the city’s comedy calendar. What makes it sing is the mix – international acts passing through with sharpened sets sit alongside local comics who know exactly how to skewer life here. The result is never the same twice: new punchlines, fresh chaos, the sort of laughter that rattles the tables. Add to that pints of Tiger, Asahi and Heineken running on happy-hour repeat and you’ve got a Thursday night that feels less like routine and more like ritual.

Every Thursday. B300 via here. The Live Lounge, 7.30pm

Jiajia Qi arrives in Bangkok with her first solo exhibition in Thailand, but this isn’t a simple retrospective or a neat display of greatest hits. Supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Thailand, the show stretches across her past works and new experiments, each piece circling back to her obsession with place and the slippery ways it shapes us. The framework leans into Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s idea of ‘nomadic thought’ where history isn’t pinned down and geography refuses to play by institutional rules. It’s less about tidy narratives and more about movement, flux and the sensation of being caught in between. Expect to leave with the feeling you’ve wandered somewhere unfamiliar, yet strangely close.

September 25-November 8. Free. SAC Gallery, 10am-6pm

Ploenchan ‘Mook’ Vinyaratn has turned Bangkok Kunsthalle into a space where weaving isn’t just craft, it’s conversation. Her most ambitious institutional installation to date reimagines fragments of past textile works, letting textures, colours and forms collide in ways that feel both deliberate and accidental. The building itself – once the Thai Wattana Panich printing house – anchors the work, with 399 circular fabric pieces echoing its original logo, each stamped with words from children’s books once produced on-site. Collaborating with other Thai women, Vinyaratn deconstructs looms and rebuilds them into monumental forms, creating works that pulse with collective memory, resilience and quiet audacity. By the time you leave, the fragments have stitched themselves into a living narrative, a reminder that history, imagination and community can fold seamlessly into one.

September 26-November 30. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

Tintin Cooper has a way of holding up a mirror that doesn’t flatter but fascinates. Her latest exhibition peers at Thailand and Southeast Asia through the eyes of outsiders, before flipping the lens back onto locals negotiating endless waves of tourism, migration and the cliches both sides quietly cling to. Here, the works are stitched together from the messy fabric of online life: animal memes, TikTok clips of holidaymakers misbehaving, ‘passport bro’ forums and Thai news headlines. Cooper treats this digital chaos as autobiography, shaped by a childhood spent adapting to languages and gestures that were never quite her own. Even the titles read like cultural fragments. One canvas lifts from Matichon’s bleak June headline I’m Ok, Not Ok, while another lovingly immortalises Moo Deng, Thailand’s internet-famous pygmy hippo, as if memes were scripture.

Until November 8. Free. SAC Gallery, 11am-6pm

Shereif Eldesouky’s new exhibition is a meditation on how we break apart and find our way back. The Egyptian mixed-media artist, now based in Bangkok, draws on memory and sibling love, framing both as fragile yet astonishingly resilient. His chosen metaphor is the reef: sometimes bleached, sometimes reborn, always in flux. The pieces trace cycles of sorrow and repair, suggesting that the same emotional currents that pull us away can, in time, return us to one another. Eldesouky mirrors this in his process, painting, dismantling, then reassembling fragments into forms that speak of survival and renewal. It’s at once personal and planetary, asking us to see our own bonds in the same light as coral – vulnerable, but never beyond revival.

September 20-November 15. Free. Bangkok 1899, 11am-6pm

Leather has always been more than surface – it carries memory, texture, even contradiction. Unveiling Leather: The Language of Modularity gathers seven artists to test just how far that thought can stretch. Here, leather isn’t draped neatly over chairs but stitched, folded, bent and layered until it becomes structure, not skin. Some works recall architectural precision, sharp and geometric, while others surrender to the material’s natural instincts, twisting and flexing into forms that feel almost alive. The exhibition lingers on modularity, on how shapes adapt as easily as lives do, shifting to meet new spaces and new demands. There’s tradition woven through each piece – craftsmanship and heritage intact – but the focus tilts firmly toward the present, where innovation and imagination tug leather into uncharted terrain.

September 20-December 7. Free. Four Seasons ART Space by MOCA Bangkok, 10.30am-7.30pm

Bangkok doesn’t really need another rooftop, but it does need a pool party worth ditching your Saturday plans for. Sunset Splash x Innerbloom is angling for that spot – set high above the city with the skyline as its backdrop. The dates are scattered across the year (September 13, October 4, November 8 and December 6) like seasonal markers for when you should probably bring your swimsuit. Expect the Innerbloom DJ crew working the decks, joined by live sax and percussion, plus dancers who make the whole thing feel more festival than hotel amenity. Drinks are dialled up with bubbles and cocktails – free-flow for women between 2pm and 4pm – and the food is just as curated as the soundtrack. 

September 13, October 4, November 8 and December 6. B500 via here. W Bangkok, 2pm-9pm

75 years after Charles Schulz first drew a small dog with improbable dreams, Snoopy is still everywhere – dancing on T-shirts, perched on mugs, drifting across the cultural imagination with the ease of someone who never grew up. This anniversary exhibition, arriving in Bangkok for the first time, asks what it means for a cartoon beagle to outlast presidents, wars and changing fashions. More than 100 works are on display, gathered across four zones that slip between art, couture, pop culture and nostalgia. Contributions from Thai and international artists sit beside collaborations with major fashion houses, while archival strips remind us that friendship and humour are never dated. 

September 6-December 7. B350-890 via here. RCB Galleria 1-2, River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Weekend rituals in Bangkok rarely feel new, yet Namsu’s brunch manages to create one. Every Saturday and Sunday, Chef Honey Rae Zenang draws from her Shan roots and years of training in Japanese kitchens to compose something that resists easy categorisation. The table becomes a conversation between cultures: Yunnan comfort, Japanese precision, Shan heart. There are noodles that carry memory, onsen bowls that blur culinary borders, and drinks – sparkling tea, poppy milk – that refuse to behave like background notes. Nothing is arranged for spectacle, yet each plate has the quiet assurance of food made by someone who understands both restraint and abundance. What emerges is less an event than a rhythm, a gentle reminder that eating together can still feel both unexpected and necessary.

Every Saturday and Sunday. Reserve via here. Namsu Bangkok, 11am-3pm

There’s a curious magic in stepping back millions of years – a chance to wander a world before ours, where giant creatures roamed freely. This event offers just that: an immersive trek alongside Thai dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts, as if the clock has unwound to a forgotten era. Each step pulls you deeper into a landscape shaped by colossal terrestrial rulers, their shadows still lingering in the imagination. It’s less a simple exhibition and more a portal to ancient earth, where awe and curiosity collide. For anyone who’s ever been fascinated by the primeval, this is an invitation to experience wonder unfiltered – a rare glimpse of a world lost but never forgotten. July 1-November 2. B150-350 at the door. Museum Pier, 10am-6pm

CRAFT doesn’t serve meals so much as curate moods. Tucked inside Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok, this all-day refuge operates on its own tempo – where a burrata-loaded toast feels just as right at 9am as it does at noon. Breakfast isn’t a time slot here, it’s a mindset. The menu meanders from bacon-draped French toast to Thai seafood porridge that lands somewhere between comfort and ceremony. For those in pursuit of chlorophyll, there’s a smoothie bowl so green it feels almost virtuous – kale, mango, spinach, all spun together with the quiet insistence of health. But indulgence lives here too. Tofu and tempeh arrive with chilli peanut sauce, a sort of soft rebellion for the plant-based crowd. Burgers come double-smashed, wraps are generously stuffed, and yes, there’s lobster – perched Waldorf-style, open-faced, unapologetic. Gluten-free options appear, if you ask nicely. Come Friday and Saturday evening, the space slips into a new rhythm with live DJs spinning laid-back grooves as daylight fades. Every day. Reserve via 02-056-9999 and craft.kimptonmaalai@ihg.com or via Line @craftbkk. CRAFT, Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok, 7am-11pm    

By the time Friday limps to a close, The Mesh on Sukhumvit 22 has already started to hum. Not with the polite clink of cutlery or background jazz, but with live voices – raw, melodic, sometimes heartbreaking, occasionally euphoric. Each week, the space shapeshifts into something looser and louder, as solo artists and acoustic duos take their place beneath the warm spill of lights. The soundtrack drifts from indie originals to bittersweet covers, filtered through the kind of intimacy only a small venue allows. You’re invited to nurse a cold brew from their Best Brews list, pick at something smoky or fried, and stay longer than you planned to. It’s not groundbreaking, and that’s the point. It’s familiar in a way that feels grounding. A soft exhale after the week. A room full of strangers mouthing the same chorus. Something to look forward to. Every Friday. Reserve via here or 02-262-0000. The Mesh, Four Points by Sheraton Bangkok, 7pm onwards

At Ms.Jigger, lunch isn’t just a break in the day – it’s a curated escape, reimagined through the ‘Pranzo Perfetto’ experience. Let’s begin with the star: weekend lunches. Served from 11:30am to 5:00pm, the set menu is accompanied by a generous spread of free-flow antipasti – an unfiltered celebration of Italian flavor. Expect bruschetta, marinated olives, seabass carpaccio and golden fried dough balls glazed with tomato and anchovy. Focaccia arrives warm and unapologetically indulgent, filled with mortadella and mascarpone. This is a leisurely interlude – a stylish Italian affair that’s perfectly designed to sabotage your dinner plans. Prices start at B950 and B1,050 for the weekend set lunch with antipasti. During the week, weekday lunches offer a shorter, yet no less satisfying, detour into Italian comfort. Served from 11:30am to 2:30pm. Think beef carpaccio with rocket and parmesan, or citrus-cured salmon dotted with balsamic caviar, followed by mains like wagyu fettuccine, wood-fired pizza or a rustic Luganega sausage that hardly needs the side of mash. At B750 for two courses and B850 for three, it’s a surprisingly affordable luxury. Everyday. Starts at B750. Reserve via 02-056-9999 and msjigger.kimptonmaalai@ihg.com or via Line @Ms.Jigger. Ms.Jigger, Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok, 11.30pm-5pm

Reap Factory offers a quick and affordable tree-course lunch starting at B450. Available daily, the Express Set Lunch Menu features six options that include Thai, Western and Japanese dishes, all made with fresh, responsibly-sourced ingredients. Thai choices include Set A, which comes with satay gai, pad krapao salmon or salmon kra-thium prik Thai, and chao guay for dessert. Set B features a spicy glass noodle salad, sweet and sour pork or golden-fried chicken, and pandan noodles in coconut milk. It’s a delicious and speedy way to enjoy a variety of flavours. Reap Factory Courtyard, daily

Biscotti welcomes chef Giuseppe Bonura, a native of Syracusa in Sicily, to the team. Imbued with a modern twist on traditional Sicilian flavours, chef Giuseppe’s new menu spotlights authentic ingredients and contemporary flare. Dishes include Panzanella Alla Siciliana, a refreshing tomato salad with almond cream, pine nuts and balsamic red onion; Arancini, Sicilian croquettes filled with beef ragu and caciocavallo cheese, served with a spicy tomato sauce; and Risotto Al Branzino, a wonderfully fragrant sea bass risotto. His stunning main course offerings feature stars such as pan-fried sea bass with spelt, mussels, clams and artichoke in a rich prawn bisque, and fantastic desserts like sweet mandarin cannolo, which combines orange ricotta, mandarin compote and hazelnut ice cream for a perfect finish. Reserve via 0-2126-8866. Biscotti, midday-10.30pm

This collaboration presents a fitness experience with The Ripple Club’s transformative aquatic workouts. Offering two class types – Ripple Signature and Ripple Box – The Ripple Club introduces aqua cycling and aqua boxing to Thailand, providing a fresh approach to aquatic fitness. The program delivers a low-impact, full-body workout suitable for all fitness levels, using water’s natural resistance to strengthen muscles while reducing stress on the joints. Combining high-intensity cardio with targeted strength training, both classes maximise efficiency in less time. Participants enjoy benefits such as stress relief through rhythmic movements, enhanced muscle recovery, and decreased soreness, creating the perfect balance between fitness and rejuvenation. Every Sat and Sun. Check the program here. W Bangkok, 8.30am-9.20am and 9.30am-10.20am