Best bars in Thailand

BKK Social Club pairs Latin American glamour with Thai hospitality at Four Seasons Bangkok. Its Mexico City-inspired menu moves through places, people and parties, with cocktails, elevated bar bites, cigars, wine and Champagne. Smart-casual dress and a 20+ age policy apply.

Yan Nawa / Sathon · Latin American-inspired hotel cocktail bar · site · IG

Bar Us treats cocktails like a dinner menu, moving from lighter starters through savoury main-course drinks to after-dinner pours. The intimate Sukhumvit 26 room suits adventurous drinkers who enjoy culinary flavours and guided choices. Reserve the 6pm or 8pm seating, or walk in later.

Sukhumvit 26 / Phrom Phong · Culinary, savoury cocktails · site · IG

Mahaniyom turns one ingredient at a time into resourceful cocktails that use its peel, flesh, juice, leaf or other parts. The warm, playful room above 100 Mahaseth also serves Thai bar food, making it a strong choice for adventurous, often savoury drinks with snacks.

Si Phraya, Bang Rak · Whole-ingredient Thai cocktails and bar food · site · IG

Mandarin Oriental Bangkok’s historic jazz room pairs a 1950s atmosphere with nightly live music. The Evolution menu follows bamboo’s growth through local ingredients, with a broad classic-cocktail list alongside.

Charoen Krung · Hotel jazz and cocktail bar · site · IG

G.O.D is a hyper-intimate, 15-seat flavour lab spread across two joined Chinatown shophouses. The ruined-temple room—stained glass, red light, graffiti-marked stone and occasional live piano—frames provocative savoury cocktails paired with small bites, with oyster and uni drinks forming part of the tasting sequence.

Chinatown / Pom Prap · Experimental cocktail and food-pairing bar · site · IG

Dry Wave is a compact, dark Thonglor cocktail studio built around the idea of interference: two familiar classic templates collide in a new drink. Its current 17-drink menu explains those combinations clearly, making a technical programme of clarification and careful balance feel approachable rather than showy.

Thonglor · Intimate, technique-led cocktail studio · site · IG

Vesper is a small, polished Silom neighbourhood bar focused on serious cocktails in a relaxed, low-lit room.

Silom · Polished neighbourhood cocktails without formality · site · IG

Opium occupies two upper floors of the historic POTONG building in Chinatown, combining intimate indoor seats with rooftop areas. Its Liquid Surreality menu groups cocktails as apéritif, sparkle, acid, acid+, solo and duo, with food from the POTONG kitchen.

Chinatown / Yaowarat · Chinatown cocktail and rooftop bar · site · IG

F*nkytown is a Sukhumvit rooftop drinking-and-dining venue from Sarnies Group, pairing locality- and seasonality-led cocktails with food, regional ingredients, DJs and guest shifts.

Rooftop cocktail and dining bar · site · IG

Messenger Service is a Bangkok cocktail bar from the team behind Bar Us. Its light-wood interior and dried flowers frame drinks that often explore savoury flavours.

Pom Prap / Old Town · Design-led savoury cocktail bar · site · IG

Asia Today is a narrow, neon-lit Chinatown cocktail bar from the team behind Teens of Thailand. Its drinks dig into uncommon Thai ingredients—especially single-origin wild honey and local cacao—turning them into playful, technique-led serves in an intimate room with a giant shark suspended overhead.

Pom Prap / Chinatown · Thai-ingredient cocktail bar and speakeasy · site · IG

Lennon’s is Rosewood Bangkok’s speakeasy and vinyl bar. Its music-led cocktail programme is paired with a large record collection and a separate cigar area.

Lumphini / Ploenchit · Vinyl-focused hotel cocktail bar · site · IG

A high-floor Waldorf Astoria lounge pairing Bangkok skyline views with forgotten Old Waldorf recipes, modern signatures, highballs and polished bar bites.

Lumphini / Pathum Wan · Skyline hotel cocktail lounge inspired by the old Waldorf Bar · site · IG

Firefly is a jazz bar for wine, whisky and classic or house-crafted cocktails. Choose the indoor room or leafy terrace; a Casa del Habano cigar parlour is part of the venue.

Lumphini / Pathum Wan · Jazz and cocktail bar · site

Bar Sathorn occupies The House on Sathorn, pairing cocktails with the mansion’s history and vinyl programming. It opens daily from mid-afternoon, with reservations recommended and walk-ins accepted when space allows.

Sathorn / Silom · Historic-house cocktail bar · site · IG

A three-floor Suan Phlu bar with exposed brick, contemporary art and a rooftop terrace, pairing cocktails and absinthe with French food, live jazz and DJs.

Sathon / Suan Phlu · Three-floor French-leaning bar with rooftop, jazz and DJs · IG