The best things to do in Bangkok this weekend (August 28-31)

Already one of her generation’s most distinguished voices, Violette Wautier first caught the public gaze as a contestant on The Voice Thailand and swiftly forged her path as a chart-topping musician and prize-winning performer. She has since soared to international fame, recognised as Thailand’s most-streamed English-language artist, thanks to evocative tracks such as Smoke and her debut album Glitter and Smoke, which echoed across Southeast Asia with remarkable resonance. Her artistic vision fuses elements of Thai sensibility with global soundscapes, weaving a beguiling tapestry that speaks authentically to diverse audiences. 

August 28. B600 at the door. Beer Belly, 11pm-midnight

Bangkok has never lacked for spectacle, but a gathering of more than 60 Thai craft and designer brands at Terminal 21 feels like something else entirely. Across three floors, the offerings spill out in their own rhythms: hand-stitched dresses and soft knits on M, delicate jewellery and leather pieces on G, and, on LG: the irrepressible lure of dried fruit and street food sitting alongside souvenirs meant to travel further than their makers ever could. The promise of a complimentary workshop for anyone spending B1,200 adds another layer of intimacy.

Until September 8. Free. Terminal 21, 10am-10pm

Good Finds Friday arrives as a curated vintage fair, transforms shopping into something closer to a pilgrimage. The stalls brim with nostalgia: mid-century modern chairs polished to a quiet glow at Sunny Delight, racks of handpicked pieces at Club Lowstock, tailored menswear at Ginn’s Daddy and eccentric treasures courtesy of Captain Thanadet. Food vendors circle the edges, ensuring the pursuit of the perfect lamp or jacket comes with the scent of street noodles in the air. The philosophy here is fewer better things, a call to buy less but cherish more, where every object carries its own story. Each seller keeps their earnings in full, a small act of rebellion that feels unusually generous in a city obsessed with transactions.

August 29. Free. Fewer Better Things, 7pm-10pm

Bangkok rarely takes a breath, yet the 43-metre passage at Samyan MRT insists we slow down. Tent Katchakul has drenched the tunnel in his sprawling linework, a mural where skyscrapers collide with daydreams, and the city’s daily grind feels suddenly negotiable.Though the point is less about talent and more about togetherness. Anyone can pick up a brush, trace a thought, or scribble a memory and watch it join the chorus of colour already spilling across the walls. The result is neither gallery nor graffiti but something stranger, softer, communal. From morning until evening the tunnel opens, a reminder that sometimes the act of making is itself the masterpiece.

Until September 20. Free. Samyan MRT Tunnel, 10am-10pm

For six days House Samyan becomes a portal to Hong Kong, a city forever flickering between neon myth and lived grit. The festival brings eight films across crime, romance, disaster and animation, each with its own cadence. Philip Yung’s Papa opens with spectral weight, followed by a conversation with producer Amy Chin and rising star Dylan So. Anthony Pun’s Cesium Fallout throws Andy Lau, Bai Yu and Karen Mok into radioactive tension, while Tsui Hark’s restored Shanghai Blues gleams again, decades after its Cannes premiere in 1984. Elsewhere come the bruised intimacy of Montages of a Modern Motherhood, the fragile notes of Last Song For You, and the punishing endurance of Four Trails and The Flower Princess (Part 1), an animated fable unfolding in pastel hues.

August 29-September 3. Tickets are available via the House Cinema app, housesamyan.com or directly at the cinema counter. House Samyan.

There are parties, and then there are nights that feel like time travel with a bassline. Chapter 10 of Disco Diaries leans firmly into the latter. It is less about nostalgia than about the chaos of sequins, the reckless urge to move and the sheer stamina of a crowd determined not to sit still. Two DJs steer the evening with a kind of sly authority, trading tracks like secrets, folding technical precision into a sound that feels both unruly and exacting. The floor becomes a collective confession booth, where everybody is compelled to speak in rhythm. By the time the night dissolves into sweat and laughter, it is difficult to tell whether you were dancing with strangers or with yourself.

August 29. B500-600 at the door. APT 101, 9pm onwards

The end of the month usually brings the quiet dread of bills and restraint. But at Chang Chui, the ordinary act of buying and selling is recast as theatre. Stalls brim with secondhand fashion that still carries the scent of old nights out, handmade trinkets that insist on being touched and oddities that defy explanation yet demand ownership. You can part ways with a jacket you once loved and watch it slip into another life, or stumble upon a record you never knew you needed. Between the browsing there are drinks to sip, music spilling into the air, strangers who may not stay strangers for long. It is commerce reframed as a kind of collective play.

August 29. Free. Chang Chui, 5pm-midnight

For a country thousands of kilometres away, Japan has never felt so close. This year marks the tenth anniversary of Thailand’s most elaborate Japan-themed festival – a sprawling celebration of connection, curiosity and cultural exchange. Held under the theme ‘The more you know, the more you love Japan’, the event sprawls across more than 12 major zones and over 400 booths, each one a small portal into a different facet of Japanese life. From sake-tasting rituals to study-abroad advice, J-pop performances to regional food stalls, the festival moves seamlessly between the everyday and the extraordinary. There’s anime, cosmetics, job fairs, travel deals and cooking ingredients – but what lingers is the sense that Japan isn’t being packaged, it’s being shared. Less a spectacle, more an invitation – to taste, to learn, to feel at home somewhere else.

August 29-31. Free. Pre-register here. Hall 5-6, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, 10am-8pm 

From the southern tip of Aotearoa to booths scattered across the world, Eden Burns carries with him a sound both mischievous and precise, a rhythm that sidesteps predictability. His catalogue spans Optimo Music, Public Possession and Beats In Space, proof of a restless producer unwilling to stay in one corner for long. Live, the effect is electric. His sets unfurl like a narrative, equal parts devotion and mischief, veering into curveballs that land not as tricks but revelations. One moment feels like stumbling onto a hidden beach, the next like dancing in a storm. Joining him are Ayahtareek of Kleaning Service collective, layering house and disco with a grounded pulse, and Bangkok’s own DOTT, celebrated for grooves that shift shape without losing focus.

August 29. B300 via here and B500 at the door. Beamcube, 9pm onwards

This Saturday, a secret location in central Bangkok will become true, a hideout whispered about until the night before. The day stretches from midday until 10pm, a carefully plotted journey through eclectic and exotic grooves as Adam Purnell, Kimoji and Transport trade tracks like mischievous secrets. Each set folds into the next, a narrative of rhythm and unpredictability, coaxing the crowd from idle curiosity into a kinetic pulse. And when night falls, the story continues at Clutch Bar, secured and intimate, where music pushes past exhaustion and the city goes along. Hours blur, and by three in the morning it is impossible to tell whether you have danced through time or simply through the streets.

August 30. Tickets are sold out but you can get the after party tickets for B500 via here, midday-3am

Thanatcha Chairin’s solo exhibition feels like stepping into a space where the past and present negotiate quietly on the gallery walls. Her new sculptural works continue an investigation into how cultural objects evolve, reframing everyday forms to reveal their hidden lives. Wood carving and gold leafing, techniques steeped in tradition, coexist with humble, vernacular materials – from chopsticks to shipping envelopes – each piece charged with renewed significance. Familiar shapes are subtly distorted, reconstructed, or adorned, prompting reflection on the shifting meanings of ritual, value and memory in a world racing toward modernity. The result is a dialogue between reverence and reinvention, a gallery where history is never static but alive, pliable and strangely intimate, asking viewers to reconsider what tradition might mean today.

August 30-September 20. Free. Richard Koh Fine Art Bangkok, 11am-7pm

Melbourne’s underground has its own heartbeat, and Sleep D carries it across house, techno, ambient and experimental electronic with authority. Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos conjure raw, analogue-heavy sets that feel tactile, as if each knob twist and fader slide leaves an imprint on the room. DZ Gas blurs boundaries further, fusing dub, disco, left-field rhythms and electronic grooves into something slippery and unpredictable. And then there is Elila B, moving through house, techno, trance, electro, breaks and Brazilian funk with an ease that is at once dark, groovy and deliriously fun. 

August 30. B300 via here and B500 at the door. Siwilai Radical Club, 9pm onwards

There are gatherings, and then there are evenings that feel like a small, vibrating universe of sound and flavour. Beer flows, plates clatter, and somewhere between the banjo rolls, fiddle reels, mandolin chops and upright bass thumps, conversation becomes music in its own right. This edition carries an added poignancy: a farewell jam for Chaya, the singer whose voice has threaded through countless nights. Friends and strangers are invited to pick, strum and sing alongside her, to linger over shared dishes and cold drinks and to mark the passing of a chapter with laughter and improvisation. The air is thick with nostalgia and joy, and by the time the final note fades, the memory of this particular evening lingers like the tail of a song you can’t quite stop singing.

August 30. Free. Radicle Beer Co, 8pm-10pm

The vividly instinctual universe of Phannapast Taychamaythakool, where paintings, prints and mixed media become conduits for love, fear and imagination. Known to many as a contemporary Thai artist and designer who has collaborated with Gucci, Sulwhasoo, Anthropologie, Jim Thompson, Lucaris, Balvenie and Swatch, her work here reveals a quieter, more intimate language. Each piece maps an emotional journey – tracing where feelings linger, how they shift and the ways they signal themselves. Her imagination acts as both compass and release, transforming private reveries into forms that pulse with life and sincerity. In this exhibition, instincts are not just expressed but embraced, leaving the viewer with a body of work that feels tender, unguarded and profoundly human.

Until September 15. Free. Rivercity Bangkok, 10am-7pm

Sundays at Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit take on a new rhythm, as the hotel invites those who move between appetite and curiosity to a series of jazzy feasts. Themed Sunday Jazzy Brunch unfolds across Rossini’s and The Living Room, where regional and international flavours are stitched together with live jazz that lingers like a memory. This edition marks Eating Out Day with a homecoming to Italy: Chef Stefano Merlo, former Rossini’s maestro and Iron Chef Thailand winner, revisits nostalgia through food. Lobster linguine, lasagna bolognese, prosciutto-topped pizzas and a lavish burrata bruschetta bar turn the act of dining into a performance, where every bite resonates and every note from the jazz trio bends the light across the room in gentle, unexpected ways.

August 31. Starts at B2,690. Reserve via  02-649-8888, BKKLC-Dining@marriott.com or visit www.sheratongrandesukhumvit.com. Rossini’s and The Living Room, Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, midday-3pm

Arjinjonathan Arjinkit unveils a solo exhibition in which mural works from sacred temples and prehistoric caves are reinvented through the prism of abstraction. These new paintings draw inspiration from centuries-old wall images, worn by centuries of devotion and erosion, yet resonant with timeless narratives. Through fluid strokes and subtle texture, Arjinkit conjures echoes of ritual-infused symbols, fracturing familiar forms into enigmatic compositions that invite introspection and discovery. Each canvas becomes a bridge between ancestral expression and contemporary vision, as ancient pigment meets modern sensibility. There is no grand spectacle here but a meditative conversation: between stone-hewn myths and painterly gestures, between collective memory and private reflection – rendered in quiet colours, layered surfaces and a profound respect for what has come before.

Until September 27. Free. Mini Xspace Gallery, 10am-5pm

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

Kolahon’s new exhibition circles an ancient question: what drives relentless striving, and what remains when we finally set it down. His starting point was an accident that left him with a cicada-like ringing in his ears, at first an intrusion, later a strange inner compass. That vibration became the quiet centre of his practice. Years later, during a punishing trek toward K2’s base, with thin air and loose rock pushing his body to collapse, something shifted. Lying beneath the Milky Way, the sound that once tormented him softened. In that hush he describes a dissolution of ego, a fleeting connection to what exceeds comprehension. The canvases that follow are less answers than traces of that moment, suspended between endurance and surrender.

August 23-September 11. Free. Curu Gallery, midday-5pm

Momentum is less an exhibition than a gesture, a slow unfolding that stretches from studio floor to gallery wall. The project invites artists to construct large-scale works while revealing every stage of their making, from the tentative first sketches to the weighty final installation at Fazal Building. Each piece carries its own rhythm, a pulse that grows as ideas stretch and solidify, only to dissipate into the brief life of its exhibition. Here, momentum is literal and metaphorical, the subtle insistence of creativity pressing forward, insisting on attention, then yielding to the space it occupies. The opening event becomes a meditation on urgency, on the ephemeral thrill of witnessing something in motion, and on the quiet insistence of imagination demanding its moment to be seen.

August 24-September 14. Free. Fazal Building, 10am-9pm

It begins quietly, without fanfare – 50 canvases, each one a pulse of unfiltered feeling. The artists are all people with down syndrome, and for once, no one has told them what art should look like. They paint as they wish, unbothered by rules or the myth of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. The colours are often jubilant, sometimes contemplative, always honest. Wander long enough and you’ll notice there’s no coded message to decode, no clever irony to catch. The works simply exist, as their makers do, with an ease that most of us have forgotten. It’s a rare thing – to be invited into a world where the point isn’t perfection but sincerity. Standing before these pieces, you realise it’s less about art as an object and more about the courage of being entirely oneself. August 14-31. Free. MOCA Bangkok, 10am-6pm

Some nights ask for something stranger than the usual pint. This one offers three: beer cocktails that wander far from the tap and deep into Korean inspiration. Each glass is its own small story. Nuruk-Bi begins with the whisper of makgeolli, its soft rice-fermented haze folding into the beer like a remembered lullaby. Ppopgi arrives brighter, a lemon-tart tang wrapped in the burnt-sugar nostalgia of a street stall sweet. Then Su Jeong Gwa, warm with cinnamon and ginger, a slow comfort that lingers at the back of the throat. Starting at B420 for all three, it is less about the bargain and more about the brief escape – a chance to see what beer becomes when it stops trying to be beer, and starts speaking another language entirely.

August 31. Starts at B420. ANJU, Sindhorn Midtown Hotel Bangkok, 5pm-2am

Sunday mornings rarely feel so gentle. Mai, a certified Sound Healer and Ayurveda guide, invites you to a sound healing journey where Himalayan singing bowls fill the air with ancient vibrations. The session is less a performance and more a subtle untangling – soft waves that ripple through the body, loosening tension and clearing energy blockages. Mai’s practice blends old wisdom with modern science, guiding you to harmonise your five elements and find a quiet centre amid the noise. Afterwards, a soulful brunch awaits poolside, where conversation drifts easily under open skies. This isn’t just a healing ritual but a sanctuary – a rare moment to pause, nurture yourself and connect with others searching for the same calm in a world that rarely stops. 

August 17, 31, September 14, 28 and October 5. ornphicha.m@gmail.com. Blue Parrot Bangkok, 8.30am

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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