The Best Places to Drink and Do in Khanna Yao & around

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A speakeasy tucked inside a Chinatown shophouse, Opium takes its name from the den that allegedly occupied the space before someone decided cocktails were a more defensible business model. The two-floor bar leans into "liquid surreality," a seasonal menu built around clever twists on classics. It holds a spot on Asia's 50 Best Bars and the World's 50 Best Bars list. The vibe is lush and conspiratorial, which, given the history, feels about right.

1. The 50 #92 · The World's 50 Best Bars
2. The 50 #43 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
3. The Infatuation The 20 Best Bars In Bangkok

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A neon tiger presides over walls that can't decide between Bangkok street culture and a Moroccan souk, and somehow the combination works. This cocktail bar sits inside a nose-to-tail restaurant and borrows the concept: each drink is named for a single ingredient, then built around it in multiple ways. Pomelo, coconut, squid, and cow all get their turn. It's a named Discovery on Asia's 50 Best Bars list, which explains the curious, well-dressed crowd making their way upstairs.

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The name above the heavy wooden door tends to raise an eyebrow before you've even ordered, which may be the point. Inside this gin bar on Soi Nana, the whole concept runs in deliberate contrast to Bangkok's endless speakeasy scene: no passwords, no theater, just a serious commitment to gin. The house infusions lean on local ingredients, and the gin and tonics are built with care. Book ahead; it fills up.

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Sixth floor of an old office block on Charoen Krung, which is exactly the kind of place you'd walk past twice before a local grabbed your arm. Charmkrung is a Thai wine bar built around sharing plates, run by the team behind Charmgang, the Yaowarat spot known for its curries. The bar stools face an open kitchen that stays loud and busy well into the night, which is where you want to be sitting.

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Wild honey sourced from gatherers across Thailand is the organizing principle of this cocktail bar on Rama IV, and the team takes that brief seriously. Every drink tests how far the ingredient can stretch before tipping sweet, which turns out to be further than expected. The beeswax mug holding the Eastern Honey is a prop worth keeping intact. Difford's Guide lists it, and The Infatuation put it on their Bangkok bar roundup.

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A cocktail bar in the heart of Chinatown that leans into the neighborhood's past, with low lighting, vintage details, and a menu that folds Chinese ingredients into familiar formats. The gin and tonic gets Chéngzi orange and sesame; the Negroni picks up Chinese ginseng. The kitchen is serious enough that duck wontons with homemade chili oil can pass for dinner. Grab a seat early if you want to be outside, because by sunset the terrace is gone.

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A cocktail bar in Pom Prap where the drinks lean on Thai herbal spirits and regional liqueurs you won't find on a standard back bar, and a live piphat ensemble or molam band fills the room on a given night. Those bands normally play theaters, so catching one here feels like an accidental stumble into something. Skewers come off a charcoal stove, rice arrives in bamboo. The whole thing is aggressively, cheerfully Thai, and the room knows it.

1. The Infatuation The 20 Best Bars In Bangkok
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Tiger-skin prints and bamboo furniture set the tone at this hotel bar inside Bangkok's Mandarin Oriental, where the house cocktail menu draws its flavors from Thailand's five regions. It's been a fixture of the city's live jazz scene for long enough that the sightlines to the stage feel deliberate. Stylish bartenders in leather aprons take it seriously, which helps, given that the room is already doing a lot of atmospheric heavy lifting on its own.

1. The Infatuation The 20 Best Bars In Bangkok
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery
3. Difford's Guide Difford's Guide

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