Bangkok Bars and Cocktail Lounges

Absolute 7 Bar
Sukhumvit Soi 7/1, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand

Come on over to the Absolute 7 Bar and find a place to get away, a place to relax, and a great place to have some fun. Well stocked bars on each floor that have all your favorite liquors and popular local and international beers as well. Check out the links for upcoming events, our photo gallery, and full descriptions of each floor. The Absolute 7 also has room for catered events and parties, so bear us in mind for your next special event.

Bed Supper Club

The hottest new spot in the Oriental City of Sin, Bed is an extraordinary space-age designer lounge in fashionable Sukhumvit. You enter a large, all-white oval pod interior with a bar at the back, divan-beds suspended from the walls and low-slung chairs on the floors - all lit up in a permanent glow of soft blue neon. The effect is to transport you back to the Jetson’s via the 21st Century, silent films and videos projected on the walls adding to the retro-futuristic feel. Food is mostly a fusion of western and Oriental dishes, although tasty northern Thai fare seemed to dominate. Predictably it all comes at a price, but since ultra sexy staff dressed like spaceship travellers will happily bring food and cocktails to you as you recline like galactic emperors on the divan fittings, we reckon you’ll manage. Similar to its namesake in Amsterdam but somehow more exotic, we say: “come to Bed darling.”

Zeta Bar - Millennium Hilton Hotel Bangkok

Q Bar

Q Bar emerged seemingly from nowhere to become Indochina's premier nightspot - incorporating two bars, a spacious terrace and a dancefloor. With bar staff this gorgeous, an inane grin will appear on your face like a hopeless teenager when they take your order. But don't flatter yourself - they're professionals dedicated to the art of the cocktail. Nevermind, the pillars and seats are covered in the softest fake leather, which is far kinder on the head after drinking to unrequited love once too often.

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Bamboo Bar

Resembling “a speakeasy in the jungle” according to one critic, the Oriental’s Bamboo Bar is as much part of the city’s landscape as the Khao San and Pat Pong Road - just with a load more class and sophistication. Legendary for its live jazz since 1946, it’s a film noir type setting, a sort of Rick’s Café of the Orient, and you half-expect Bogart to wander in with a babe on his arm. The skilled bartender has trained at Harry’s Bar in Munich, and makes every spectacular cocktail from the Mai Tai to the martini. Décor is that jungle theme but you’ll find leather sofas and plush chairs amongst all the bamboo and palm fronds. Comfortable, classy and sophisticated, make yours a double!

Vertigo Grill & Moon Bar

Telephone: 00 66 2 679 1200

Hours: Open 5 pm-12 midnight

Perched 60 floors above the city on the roof of the sultry Banyan Tree Hotel, Vertigo’s location is tops for great views, less good for staying dry though, since it has no roof. A chic open-air lounge popular with the cocktail-drinking glamour set and Amex carrying ex-pats, the restaurant does good barbecued seafood and Asian-inspired dishes such as lamb in Japanese Green Tea crust, but mostly you’re here for the drink and scenery. Bangkok's cityscape, the winding Chao Praya river and the soccer ball sun sinking below the horizon are best enjoyed with a glass of fine Crystal, or wine and cocktails.

Spasso

• 494 Ratchadamri Rd
• Bangkok,
• Telephone: 66 2 254 1234

Intriguingly billed as an Italian restaurant “and entertainment centre” you might forget for a moment that you’re in the Orient at Spasso. In the heart of the fancy Grand Hyatt, the space is fun, lively and crowded and usually packed weeknights with a post-work crowd of execs who come for good cocktails and loud chat. The chat tends to get louder when the local band performs covers from 9pm and although there’s minimal dance space, after a few Mai Tais most regulars are shaking their tails. If you come for dinner, take a seat at the intimate dimly-lit bar counter, order a Scotch and soda, and ask for some stock advice from the ex-pat suit standing next to you.

Met Bar at Metropolitan Hotel, 27 South Sathorn Road
The sister of London’s Met Bar, The Met Bar, Bangkok is a chic lounge accessible only by hotel guests and members. In the afternoon and evening, the bar serves delicious Thai cuisine. At night, it turns into one of Bangkok’s trendiest nightspot, offering you a softly lit lounge-style ambiance furnished with deep chairs and burgundy red walls. Sip the well-known martinis while enjoying an eclectic mix of lounge music spun by international DJs.

Mystique

• 71/8 Soi Sukhumvit
• Bangkok,
• Telephone: +66 2 662 2374

As if Bangkok wasn’t alluring enough, the multi-roomed Mystique brings another dimension to the fast-growing Sukhumvit scene. Set over three floors, it contains a dance space, a dining area and a lavishly-furnished lounge, not to mention five themed VIP rooms for special guests. With wines from Italy, Champagne from France, cigars from Cuba, and a delectable fusion menu, the cocktail menu does well to keep up. Masterful bar-staff mix up 150 delights from the Mystique Martini signature to the Lychee Mojito and the wicked Lover Machine. There’s also a Pimp Daddy. It’s the kind of place a certain rapper might be seen in.

Dali

• 227 Soi Rambutree (off Chakrapong Road)
• Bangkok, 10200
• Telephone: 00 66 2 629 1173

Cool art-bar in the traveller-rich Khao San area although whether Salvador himself ever passed through here with a backpack we can't say. Small, relaxed, popular with locals and tourists, it's full of surreal wall hangings downstairs, comfy sofas, cushions and live music. We prefer it below, where the wide range of cocktails, spirits and beers in a cool, quiet setting is a welcome respite from the frantic tropical chaos outside.

The Black Swan
is one of the few authentic English pubs in Bangkok; a veritable haven from the hubbub of Sukhumvit Road, located next to Asoke BTS and across the road from the MRT.
The pub has a warm and intimate atmopshere with a quality selection of beers - draught Heineken, Guinness, John Smith, Tiger and Kilkenny. There is also a wide selection of bottled beers, wines, spirits, cocktails and traditional English Fayre.
Dont forget, Friday is fresh fish day flown all the way from Scotland by Scottish Choice Asia.
The Black Swan is a family friendly pub, children are most welcome accompanied with adults. All major sporting events are covered on a wide plasma screen.

Señor Pico

For more details and reservations, please contact:

• Señor Pico
• 1st Floor
• Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok
• 19 Sukhumvit Soi 18
• Klong Toei, Bangkok 10110
• Tel: +66 2 261 7100 ext: 7550