The best things to do in Bangkok this weekend (August 7-10)

Our debut exhibition, born from the heart of Time Out Bangkok, arrives as part of the Capture Bangkok celebration. 10 of the city’s most visionary street photographers join forces with the campaign’s winners, each peeling back the layers of the city to reveal its hidden poetry. In their frames, traffic snarls become rhythm, tangled wires weave romance and fleeting moments of calm surface amid the city’s relentless rush. It’s a fresh lens on a familiar place – one that invites you to see Bangkok anew, to feel its pulse in unexpected ways. This project is a labour of love brought to life alongside Canon and Coca-Cola, celebrating the restless creativity that makes Bangkok not just a city, but a living story.

August 8-20. Free. The Corner House Bangkok, 8am-11pm

In a world unsettled by pandemic aftershocks and tangled geopolitical currents, the old maps of power no longer hold. The centre has fragmented – replaced by a chorus of voices, each rooted in local soil, language and memory. What was once dismissed as peripheral now pulses with its own knowledge, its own beauty and fierce creative force. This project turns to those places – not for spectacle, but for something more intimate. It seeks out the forms of beauty that rise naturally from the everyday: myths whispered through generations, folktales carried on the wind, histories folded into daily rituals. These are aesthetics born not to dazzle global markets but to honour deep connections – to land, sky and the collective stories that bind us all.

Until October 10. Free. 7/F, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

In Bangkok, something strange is happening on the banks of the Chao Phraya – and it’s glowing blond. Iconsiam has become ground zero for Dragon Ball fever, hosting the largest exhibition the franchise has ever staged. A full-throttle homage to the Super Saiyan universe in all its loud, spiky, slow-motion glory. Iconic battle scenes have been pulled from the anime and built to scale, letting visitors wander through Namek like it's Sunday shopping. More than 40 life-sized figures lurk in corners and float mid-air, poised for battle or just waiting to be in your selfies. There's Kamehameha practice, a Dragon Ball scavenger hunt via app, even fusion zones. It’s half playground, half pilgrimage – and entirely designed for those who never quite left their Goku era behind. 

Until October 19. B400-1,110 via here. Attraction Hall, Iconsiam, 10.30am-8.30pm

The slow prowl through endless stacks, the thrill of the find, the quiet competition of strangers who pretend they’re not reaching for the same edition. The Big Bad Wolf Books festival returns with over two million books, a number so excessive it borders on theatrical. But that’s part of the appeal. It’s not just a book fair, it’s a labyrinth of genres, a warehouse of words where the line between browsing and hoarding blurs quickly. From oversized picture books to cookery bibles, YA angst to architectural monographs, the selection is as chaotic as it is comprehensive. The promotions are half the draw – ridiculous enough to justify leaving with more than you planned. It’s less about restraint, more about surrender. 

August 7-17. Free. Hall 4, IMPACT Forum, 10am-10pm

Some melodies never quite leave the room. Long after the curtain falls, The Phantom of the Opera lingers – its music, its mystery, its chandelier hanging in the mind like a half-remembered dream. Since its premiere nearly four decades ago, the show has mesmerised over 160 million people across 47 countries, slipping between 21 languages without ever losing its voice. Bangkok first met the phantom in 2013. Now, in 2025, he returns. Tero Scenario brings the iconic production back to the Thai stage, inviting both loyal devotees and curious newcomers to step once more into the shadowy splendour of the Paris Opera House. Grand, gothic and unapologetically emotional, it remains a reminder of theatre’s ability to thrill, unsettle and completely possess.

August 5-31. B1,800-7,000 via here. Muangthai Rachadalai Theatre

Once a month, The Meatchop plays host to something far messier than a tasting menu – a kind of culinary cage match, laced with blood, butter and storytelling. It’s where chefs gather not just to cook, but to spar, seduce and show off, one cut at a time. The evening is less about dinner, more about ritual – meat as medium, memory as garnish. This time, the spotlight swings to a Wagyu striploin so marbled it borders on abstract. MBS 9+ – the culinary equivalent of a designer label, if designer labels bled. There will be music, there will be smoke, there will be chefs hunched over flames telling stories about their mothers. It’s theatre, it’s chaos, it’s a communion of meat and myth, served rare.

August 7. Starts at B3,500. Reserve via LINE: @meatchop or call 02-033-2709. The Meatchop, 6pm-10pm

There’s something quietly revealing about the spaces we keep – the way books are stacked, the way light falls across a half-made bed, the way a chair is never quite tucked in. This series sits somewhere between portraiture and confession, using interiors not just as backdrops but as emotional mirrors. It’s about the lives we lead behind closed doors, interpreted through texture, silhouette and shadow. Each image is a collaboration – not just between subject and camera, but between memory and mood, fashion and feeling. Clothes drape like second skins, rooms echo with the small details of daily life. A chipped mug says as much as a tailored coat. Identity, here, is not performed but lived – layered into curtains, folded into linens, hiding in plain sight.

Until August 8. Free. Slowcombo, 10am-8pm

MIYABI’s solo exhibition feels less like a statement and more like a quiet return – to instinct, to breath, to the parts of the self we forget until something wild reminds us. Her work drifts between the external and the internal, sketching out a forest that exists both in the world and within the body. Birds are everywhere – perched in brushstrokes, embedded in clay, hovering just out of reach. They aren’t decorative. They’re messengers, mirrors, sometimes ghosts. The show unfolds in paintings, ceramics and mixed media that speak softly but persist, like the sound of wings in the distance. This isn’t environmentalism as warning siren. It’s slower, more intimate – a memory, a sensation, a spiritual echo. The earth fades, and with it, something internal dims too. MIYABI asks us to notice, and maybe, to return.

August 8-September 9. Free. Ground Bangkok, 7.30am-5pm 

This mini travelling festival drifts across Bangkok, Ang Thong, Loei and Chiang Mai, bringing with it a curious mix of performances from France, Japan and Thailand that feel less like entertainment and more like quiet provocations. In Pour Hêtre, two French acrobats abandon dialogue in favour of balance, contortion and a solitary beech tree – a symbol that morphs from object to meaning with every lift and fall. Japan’s Tonbi follows a black kite across a former waste island, brought to life by a family trio from Teshima using music, puppetry and an eight-year-old’s perspective. Add live Thai storytelling, illusion theatre and Sunday August 10, short films at One Bangkok Park, and suddenly, the family outing feels more like a tiny revolution – one where nobody pays for a ticket, but everyone leaves with something.
August 8-23. Free. Check locations and timings on this story right here.

Before the roar, there’s a pause – a hush that falls over the jungle, the kind that signals you’re no longer at the top of the food chain. Jurassic World: The Experience drops you into that moment and doesn’t let go. In this latest, most ambitious version yet, Isla Nublar is reimagined across more than 10 sprawling zones. It’s not just a stroll through a film set – it’s an encounter. Life-sized dinosaurs emerge from the trees, scenes unfold with eerie familiarity and the line between fiction and reality blurs with every step. Presented by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the experience doesn’t ask for your suspension of disbelief. It demands it. The prehistoric past isn’t behind glass. It’s right there, breathing.

August 8 onwards. B579-989 via here. Asiatique The Riverfront, 11am-10pm

Billy Wilder never played it safe. His scripts snapped with cynicism, his characters lingered like smoke, and his films – equal parts bitter and brilliant – still leave their mark long after the credits roll. Sunset Boulevard gave us faded fame and fatal ambition. The Apartment turned loneliness into a punchline, then a quiet heartbreak. Somehow, they still feel unnervingly modern. Even now, Wilder’s fingerprints are everywhere – in the symmetrical worlds of Wes Anderson, the meta spirals of Christopher Nolan, the sharp sincerity of Greta Gerwig. He wrote people as they were, not as they wished to be. This August, House Samyan invites you back into Wilder’s world – flickering, flawed, impossible to forget. Sunset Boulevard screens from August 8 and The Apartment follows from August 22. 

From August 8 and August 22 onwards. B160 via here. House Samyan.

Thailand’s biggest tea festival has landed – and it’s steeped in everything from tradition to experimentation. Central Ladprao becomes a teahouse of many moods, where matcha purists and Thai tea loyalists find common ground over fragrant brews and fusion blends. There’s ceremonial-grade matcha whispering umami in every direction, a mixologist flown in from Osaka turning leaves into liquid poetry, and shelves lined with teacups you didn’t know you needed – all at prices that encourage indulgence. Expect bakeries perfumed with houjicha, workshops that make brewing feel like alchemy, and enough loose-leaf to lose yourself in. Whether you’re sipping, shopping or just loitering with intent, it’s less a market, more a meditation – one cup at a time.

August 8-13. Free. Central Ladprao, 10am-10pm

Organised by Thailand Post and the Philatelists Association of Thailand, this year’s theme, Letters of Friendship: From Bangkok to Beijing, reads like a promise whispered across borders. More than stamps – though there are 1,200 frames of them from 27 countries – the exhibition drifts into the unexpected. Royal-named plants, artworks penned by royal hands, face-changing opera and the haunting lilt of Mae Sri Nuan Lamtat blur the lines between performance and preservation. There’s food. There are workshops. There’s even a ‘Friendship Market’ – as though diplomacy might begin with dinner, or perhaps a miniature portrait of a forgotten king.

August 8-12. Free. The General Post Office, 10am-8pm

A true selector’s selector, Chae touches down in Bangkok with a record bag that reads like a love letter to the dance floor – 90s deep cuts, future-facing grooves, and everything in between. A resident of Seoul’s Antidote crew, she’s built a reputation on sets that feel both intimate and expansive – full of warmth, rhythm and just the right amount of bite. Sharing the booth are two names shaping Bangkok’s underground in real time. Kunanon of High Wire Collective brings a razor-sharp mix of house, electro and minimal – no fuss, all finesse. Kornnlee dips into disco, indie dance and organic house with sets that sway between nostalgia and euphoria. 

August 8. B200 via here and B400 at the door. Beamcube, 9pm onwards

Introducing Kade&Co. – not just a party, but a pulse. Founded by Kade of Lonely Girls Club, the new series spotlights women behind the decks across Asia and beyond. It’s a love letter to late nights and louder voices, where connection counts as much as the music.This is femme energy in motion – a space for anyone, DJ or not, to feel seen, inspired and just a little bit unruly. Think bold sounds, soft lights and a crowd that moves with intention. For the first edition, Malaysian trailblazer Aidaho steps in – founder of Cherry Bomb and master of high-octane blends, from afrobeats to runway-ready house. Joining her is Bangkok’s own SYADHA, spinning UKG, baile funk and whatever else sets the floor alight. 

August 8. B300 via here and B500 at the door. Beam, 9pm onwards

Somewhere between silence and stillness, William Barrington-Binns has carved out a space that resists urgency. Each piece is a quiet act of devotion, the product of more than 60,000 hours spent in meticulous repetition, in what he describes as ‘art with breath.’ Rooted in the Japanese notion of Takumi – that deep, almost monastic pursuit of mastery – the work edges close to ritual. Photography and digital process are tools, yes, but they behave more like instruments in a windless orchestra, reverberating with something just beneath the surface. The result is deceptively simple. Still images that somehow seem to exhale, holding time like it’s a bird in the hand.

August 9-October 1. B120-300 at the door. 5/F, MOCA Bangkok, 10am-6pm

Plug your iPods in baby – we’re going dancing like it’s 2006. Bangkok collides with Melbourne’s most unhinged export, Club Haus, for a night of sweat, syncopation and full-blown Myspace-era delusion. It’s low-rise jeans, glittery angst and a soundtrack that jumps from Southeast Asian bounce to Latin rhythms, stitched together with global sounds that won’t sit still. The theme? Think pixelated profile pics, bulletins at midnight, and top eight drama – all reimagined on the dance floor. Behind the decks: Haus of Ralph, Cristal No.5, Cocobutta2.0, Ada X, Digital Cherubs and Sriracha Czaddy. No irony, no algorithms – just chaos, camp and certified bangers.

August 9. B400 via here and B500 at the door. Blaq Lyte Rover, 9pm onwards

Hypnotic vowels, whispered divine names, and six voices suspended in a spell – Stimmung is less a piece of music than an experience outside time. Composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen and inspired by the chanting of Buddhist monks, it’s a work that hovers between meditation and ritual, unfolding slowly over seventy minutes around a single shimmering chord. This August, the Calliope Chamber Choir, led by Somtow Sucharitkul, brings Stimmung to Thailand for the very first time. Presented at the Goethe-Institut, the performance offers a rare chance to encounter one of the 20th century’s most quietly radical works. As Anton Regenberg, former director of the Goethe-Institut, once said: it began with a chant, and became something altogether stranger.

August 9. B500 via here. Goethe-Institut, 7.30pm onwards

This isn’t your typical stroll. Made in Songwat, in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), invites you to explore the city’s most storied street through something more ephemeral – aroma. Under the theme ‘Scent’, this new walking tour through the Song Wat neighbourhood asks you to lead with your nose. Think spices drifting from old shophouses, tea leaves unfurling in hot water, incense curling in alleyway shrines. It’s a journey that lingers in the air long after you’ve moved on. But this is more than fragrance – it’s about slowing down, listening to stories, tasting what’s simmering, joining in workshops, and meeting the people who give the area its soul. Song Wat isn’t just seen – it’s sensed.

August 9 and August 16. B1,500 via here. PLAY Art House, 2.30pm-5.30pm

More Rice is back with its ninth release – and it hits like a long-overdue homecoming. This time, its label cofounder Sarayu steps forward with The Don. Mueang, his first full solo outing on the imprint since 2021. The EP is dense, deliberate and deeply rooted – a kind of sonic cartography that places Bangkok firmly on the underground map, without asking for permission. To mark the release, there’s a party – naturally. Bar Temp. plays host as Sarayu goes back to back with DOTT, two selectors spinning into the early hours with the kind of shared instinct that can’t be rehearsed. It’s not just a launch, it’s a moment – the sound of a scene folding in on itself, then blooming into something new. 

August 9. B200-400 via here and B600 at the door. Bar Temp., 9pm onwards

In Italy, pizza isn’t just dinner – it’s ritual, conversation, a reason to linger at the table. Channeling that spirit, Executive Chef Andrea Accordi has taken the country’s most democratic dish and spun it into something entirely new: an eight-course journey that teases the line between tradition and theatre. Each round arrives like a small revelation – blistered just so at 365°C, topped with fleeting seasonal flavours, and layered with the kind of precision that never feels too precious. The menu moves from feather-light to unapologetically rich, stitched together by Accordi’s quiet humour and unmistakable touch. This isn’t pizza as comfort, or nostalgia – it’s pizza as invitation. To sit longer. To share more. To taste something familiar, and not recognise it at all.

Every Friday-Sunday. Starts at B2,500. Reserve via 02-032-0885. Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok, 7pm onwards

People You May Know, the podcast that drifts between humour and hard truth, has slipped off the airwaves and into something physical. In collaboration with AP Thailand, FAROSE Studio presents an exhibition that reimagines historical legacy as something both tactile and oddly intimate. You walk through rooms divided not by time or region, but by impact. The Visionaries. The Bridge Builders. The Hidden Figures. The Revolutionaries. It’s not a history lesson – it’s a curated encounter with those who nudged the world forward, whether the spotlight found them or not. At the entrance, you’re handed a copy of The Class of the Rich (Stories) and a green highlighter – an invitation to choose your own icons, quietly, without ceremony. 

Until August 17. Free. TCDC, 10.30am-7pm

It begins as a forest, though not quite the kind you step into with boots and insect repellent. This one is built indoors, thick with light and shadow, where the air smells faintly of rain and the perfumes of Phu Ta Wan. The exhibition imagines Thailand’s tropical rainforest as something more than a landscape – it becomes a stand-in for the human mind, layered and restless, full of places that rarely see daylight. Between glowing installations and slow-moving colours there are questions hidden in mirrors, small quizzes that promise to show you something you didn’t realise was there, seven bottled scents that behave like riddles. By the end you leave a message behind, a scrap of yourself offered up to the trees, as if they might answer back.

Until August 24. Free. Rivercity Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Thai handicrafts have long been celebrated for their precision and the quiet stories woven into every thread and carved detail. It’s no surprise that travellers often seek them out, hoping to carry home a piece of this timeless artistry. Recently, these traditions have found new life – fashion houses weaving classic textiles into bold, contemporary statements, while hand-crafted objects slip effortlessly into modern interiors. At the heart of this revival is the royal ‘Siriraj Phattharaporn’ fabric, unveiled and available to buy for the first time, its patterns so intricate they feel almost sketched rather than woven. Surrounding it are mudmee silks that reimagine tradition with fresh eyes, wool textiles spun in Mae Hong Son, and ceramics and everlasting flowers that refuse to fade. Even the sweets echo heritage, shaped like palace gates and sacred tiles, while a khon performance quietly stitches past and present together.

Until August 13. Free. Emsphere, 10am-10pm

There’s a certain kind of visual maximalism that doesn’t beg for attention so much as demand it – Hugo Brun’s work is exactly that. Loud in the best way, his pieces flirt with chaos: clashing colours, cartoonish proportions and the bold swagger of pop art unbothered by subtlety. His furniture sits somewhere between sculpture and set piece – chairs that feel like they might wink at you, tables that seem halfway to melting. It’s no surprise they’ve become backdrops for a thousand selfies, but there’s more to them than surface spectacle. Beneath the gloss and playful disorder lies a wink to nostalgia, a rebellion against beige interiors, and the refusal to be tasteful in a world that insists you should be. Burn isn’t decorating – he’s declaring.

Until October 18. Free. River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Sculpted from wood and shaped by scientific observation, Peerapong biomorphic forms straddle the line between relic and warning, tangled in the quiet grief of ecological collapse. These aren’t merely artworks; they are elegies for forests cleared, rivers choked, soil stripped bare. Deforestation, monoculture, pollution – they seep through the grain like ghosts. Originally rooted in Northern Thailand, the sculptures have been lifted from earth to concrete, now standing uneasily within the sterile geometry of a gallery. They appear both sacred and displaced – like offerings misplaced on the wrong altar. The installation turns the white cube into a kind of greenhouse, less for growth than reflection. What does it mean, they seem to ask, when nature must be framed to be noticed at all?

Until August 31. Free. MATDOT Art Centre, 10am-6pm

In Another Space feels like a whispered conversation between two minds entwined yet distinct, a dialogue painted across canvases that echo shared dreams and quietly entwined lives. Sadaf and R.M. Naeem trace motifs that ripple through their work – nature, memory and identity – each brushstroke conjuring connection and divergence. Rooted in their Pakistani heritage yet unbound by it, the pair embrace disruption as a kind of freedom. R.M. Naeem’s self-description as ‘international citizens of the world’ isn’t empty rhetoric but a call to rethink belonging beyond borders and history. Their paintings unfold like a ritual – Sadaf’s canvases pulse with foliage caught in rain, while R.M. opens the sky, sunlight piercing through. Together they map a landscape where heritage yields to selfhood and possibility dawns anew.

Until August 31. Free. MATDOT Art Centre, 10am-6pm

Julia Phetra Oborne’s latest series weaves together oil paintings that dwell in the quiet space between women and trees, memory and myth, landscape and identity. Epiphytes takes root in stories whispered through woodlands, where the female form slips through shadows and light, both seen and half-hidden. Drawing from her Thai-British heritage, Oborne treats the forest as a shifting terrain – familiar yet unknowable – a place where personal histories and ancient tales intertwine. The title nods to plants that grow on others, much like the layered canvases themselves, which accumulate marks that both reveal and conceal. Inspired by ritual and the Buddhist legend of the Nariphon – trees bearing fruit shaped like women – these works become more than images. They are living surfaces where past and present meet, unspooling their tangled stories with quiet intensity.

July 26-August 7. Free. Supple Gallery, 11am-6pm

There’s something quietly magical about lantern light – how it flickers and softens, turning the ordinary into something otherworldly. For years, this spectacle has drawn crowds from across the globe, locals included, all eager to lose themselves in giant paper structures resembling creatures born of myth and imagination. Now, for the first time, Bangkok gets its own chapter with ‘Spirit of Mountains and Seas’. Inspired by the ancient Chinese tome Shan Hai Jing, the festival reanimates legends of mysterious beasts and rare flora through lanterns that pulse with colour and sound. It’s not just a display but a full-sensory voyage – where light dances, stories unfold and fantasy feels real enough to touch. 

July 27-15 August. Free. Icon Siam

In this series of paintings, the artist doesn’t just sketch fur or bone. They map something else entirely: the unspoken bond between species, the ache of being unseen, the warmth that follows being held. Inspired by animals left behind, these works don’t shout. They murmur. They ask gentle, devastating things – ‘Have I ever been loved?’ – and still, they refuse to accuse. What emerges is not pity, but reverence. A soft insistence that even in ruin, affection remains. 20 percent of the proceeds support The Hope Thailand Foundation. Until July 31. Free. Alexgust Gallery, MMAD at MunMun Srinakarin, 10.30am-9.30pm

Grief doesn’t arrive with answers. It lingers, shapeless and slow, stretching hours into something unfamiliar. In this quiet, deliberate space, sorrow isn’t a wound to conceal but a landscape to walk through – cautiously, without urgency. Here, pain isn’t romanticised. It’s examined. The artist maps the terrain between collapse and repair, using canvas, steel, wood – materials that refuse to flinch. Human forms are bent, fragmented, almost blurred out. Objects warp. Landscapes ache. Oil paintings sit beside finely carved panels and cold metal surfaces, as if to remind us that emotion, too, can take form. It’s not about healing in the usual sense. More like learning to live beside the weight. To let loss reshape how we see, without demanding we move on. Some beauty asks nothing. It simply stays. Until August 31. Free. MMAD at MunMun Srinakarin Alexgust Gallery, 10.30am-9.30pm

Once a printing house, now a memory pressed between tiled floors and wooden stools – this exhibition remembers Thai Wattana Panich not just as a building, but as a beating heart of knowledge production. Tucked in the centre of Bangkok, it served as a quiet engine of authority, where language wasn’t simply used but standardised. Today, the show asks what happens when the direction shifts – when words don’t trickle down from textbooks, but bubble up from tweets, slang and subtitled memes. It’s not just about nostalgia; it’s about power, who holds it, and who gets to redefine it. In one room, a narrow reading space mirrors cramped living quarters. Visitors must squat to read. It’s a subtle nod to who language once excluded, and who now rewrites the rules from the bottom up. There are games, too. Of course. Until Aug 17. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

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

Scrubb has always been more feeling than formula – music that lingers in the in-between. Sense of SCRUBB is an exhibition that attempts to capture this atmosphere without relying on sound alone. It opens with delicate works on canvas and clay, fragments offered up by artists who’ve sat with the band’s music long enough to translate it visually. Then come the words – short stories and poems penned by fellow musicians, tucked with half-remembered nights and soft melancholies. There’s even a scent, faint and fleeting, crafted to recall melody without needing to name it. Visitors are invited to speak too, to voice what Scrubb stirs in them. But the real question sits quietly behind it all – how do others see this band, and what does that reflection reveal? Intimate, unfussy, the exhibition closes with a casual talk session featuring Ball and Muey, surrounded by the art they inspired without ever having to ask for it. June 13-August 12. Free. MMAD - MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

Breathe in the slow burn of New Orleans. There’s something unrushed, almost stubborn, in the way Ms. Asta’s New Orleans lets her swing simmer. The kind of jazz that doesn’t ask to be heard so much as lived in. Her rhythm rolls like heat down Chartres Street, deliberate and dusky, clinging to the corners of the room. New Orleans cuisine, with its sacred mess of flavour, doesn’t need elevation – just the right soundtrack. And hers isn’t background music. It’s a second course. A hush falls between bites, not from reverence, but recognition. This is how the city feeds you: slowly, thoroughly, and always with music on its breath. Every Friday. Reserve via 062-141-6549 or tinassathorn.com, Tina's Sathorn, 7.30pm-9.15pm (live jazz)

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