Best cocktail bars in Thailand

• No.4 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · The Best Bar in Thailand
• No.5 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · Highest New Entry
• No.27 The World’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · New entry

Opened in 2024 by Supawit “Palm” Muttarattana and Niwarin “Ae” Phlainoi. The menu is built on “Super Classics”: two established cocktails merged into one new drink.

Behind the bar: Supawit “Palm” Muttarattana, Tanat “Khem” Suttirak, Tamaryn Cooper

• No.6 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award
• No.4 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · The Best Bar in Thailand
• No.4 The World’s 50 Best Bars 2026

Founded in September 2023 by Sudarat “Taln” Rojanavanich and Veerach “Aum” Sawaengsupt. The menu reads like a tasting menu, with starters, mains and “after” drinks built on Thai flavours such as guava leaf, green chilli and makrut lime.

Behind the bar: Sudarat “Taln” Rojanavanich & Veerach “Aum” Sawaengsupt

• No.7 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · Highest New Entry

A speakeasy and vinyl bar with more than 6,000 records that guests can pick and play. Its Bartender Series brings guest bartenders from around Asia.

Behind the bar: KT Lam

• No.17 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · Highest Climber
• No.48 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · New entry

A lounge inside The House on Sathorn, a heritage house built in 1889. It runs a Bartender Takeover Series with visiting bartenders.

• No.20 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026
• No.19 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025
• No.30 The World’s 50 Best Bars 2026

An Art Deco hotel bar on the Chao Phraya River, led by Philip Bischoff. Its drinks programme draws on Latin America, with tequila and mezcal to the fore.

Behind the bar: Philip Bischoff

• No.25 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026
• No.43 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · New entry
• No.92 The World’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · 51–100 list

A speakeasy hidden inside the restaurant Potong. It takes cues from Bangkok’s Chinatown and classic New York bars and is named after the opium den that once occupied the space.

• No.31 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026
• No.26 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · New entry

A church-like bar from Niks Anuman-Rajadhon and Attaporn De-Silva, the team behind Teens of Thailand and Asia Today. The drinks are spirit-forward and the mood edgy and experimental.

Behind the bar: Niks Anuman-Rajadhon

• No.48 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · New entry

A hotel bar whose menu is called “Potions of the Garden”. New to Asia’s 50 Best Bars in 2026.

• No.56 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · 51–100 list
• No.29 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · Legend of the List Award

A European-inspired Bangkok institution with more than a decade on Convent Road. It is led by bar manager Tom Hearn, formerly of the American Bar at The Savoy.

Behind the bar: Tom Hearn

• No.69 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · 51–100 list
• No.90 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · 51–100 list

From the team behind Bar Us. It moved to Yaowarat and launched an ingredient-driven “Grocery Store” cocktail concept.

• No.76 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · 51–100 list
• No.71 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · 51–100 list

A bar known for “resourceful” cocktails, where Bacardi Legacy 2019 winner Ronnaporn “Neung” Kanivichaporn is head bartender.

Behind the bar: Ronnaporn “Neung” Kanivichaporn

• No.78 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026 · 51–100 list
• No.82 Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025 · 51–100 list

The Sindhorn Kempinski’s bar, a regular on Asia’s 51–100 list. It hosts the Bangkok Bar Show 2026 closing party.

The gin bar co-founded by Niks Anuman-Rajadhon.

Behind the bar: Niks Anuman-Rajadhon

• No.15 Bangkok Bar Show Awards (Thailand) 2025 · Cultural Bar of Thailand

Named Cultural Bar of Thailand at the Bangkok Bar Show Awards 2025.

A hidden bar entered through a photo booth, from the Find the Locker Room group. Its bartender Thanachot “Ong” Lohanimit won World Class Thailand 2025.

Behind the bar: Thanachot “Ong” Lohanimit

• No.12 Bangkok Bar Show Awards (Thailand) 2025

A colourful, experimental Chiang Mai speakeasy. Its bartender Atchana “Amber” Intarangsi won World Class Thailand 2026.

Behind the bar: Atchana “Amber” Intarangsi

• No.10 Bangkok Bar Show Awards (Thailand) 2025 · Best Bar in Chiang Mai

Varied cocktails alongside Japanese food. Named Best Bar in Chiang Mai at the Bangkok Bar Show Awards 2025.

• No.20 Bangkok Bar Show Awards (Thailand) 2025 · Best Bar in Phuket/Samui

A refined, tarot-themed bar in Phuket Old Town and Best Bar in Phuket/Samui at the Bangkok Bar Show Awards 2025. Bogdan Bochkarev, who placed second runner-up at World Class Thailand 2026, works here.

Behind the bar: Bogdan Bochkarev