22 cocktail bars in Bangkok, including nine on the 50 Best world list and 22 on Asia's 50 Best.

Not a dining but a drinking room: former interior designers Sudarat 'Taln' Rojanavanich and Veerach 'Aum' Sawaengsupt serve a full-course liquid cuisine, Starter, Main, After, All Night, in a near all-black room of theatrical spotlights and white lab coats. Local-farm ingredients meet distillation, fermentation and carbonation in serves like the Pad Thai and the Boiled Egg Martini. No.6 in Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026 with the Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award. It was a Top 4 finalist for Best International Cocktail Bar at the 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. It sits at No. 4 on The 50 Best Bars 2026, up from No. 15 in 2025.

Supawit 'Palm' Muttarattana's Thonglor studio opened in January 2024 and rocketed to No.4 in Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026, the Best Bar in Thailand. Named for the omnipresence of waves, the wood-toned room above SODALITY serves a 'Super Classic' menu in which each drink merges two iconic cocktails from different eras into one, like the 1806-1988, an old fashioned folded into a cosmopolitan. Campari One To Watch 2024. It was a Top 4 finalist for Best New International Cocktail Bar at the 2025 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.

Latin American glamour meets Thai hospitality at the Four Seasons on the Chao Phraya, under beverage manager Philip Bischoff (ex-Manhattan, Singapore). The current menu is a love letter to Mexico City, its places, people and parties, folding tepache, atole and horchata traditions into the list, alongside a Negroni flight and cigars. No. 30 on The 50 Best Bars 2026 (No. 49 in 2025) and No.20 in Asia's 50 Best 2026. Smart casual, 20+. It won Best International Hotel Bar at the 2024 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.

A brilliantly eccentric den above nose-to-tail restaurant 100 Mahaseth, bright, loud and roaringly fun, its cocktails nodding to the sustainable kitchen below. Each drink is named after a single ingredient used every possible way: an Orange of house orange vermouth and orange hydrosol garnished with chips of the leftover peels, alongside Pomelo, Squid, Cow and Coconut. No. 19 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2023 and No. 57 on The World's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2024; No. 76 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

A speakeasy-inspired vinyl listening bar on Rosewood Bangkok's 30th floor: over 6,000 records, an in-bar vinyl shop, and a room styled as a mid-century home recording studio with a spiral stair to the cigar lounge. Director of bars KT Lam (ex-DarkSide Hong Kong) and bar manager Kosil 'James' Kamja pour the 'Bangkok Beats' menu, eight Thai flavors as musical movements, beside rare spirits back to the 1970s. No.7 in Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026, Highest New Entry. Smart casual, 20+.

Sixteen signature cocktails inspired by four eras of an extraordinary building: the 1889 mansion of Luang Sathorn Rajayukta, later the luxurious Hotel Royal, then Thailand's first Russian Embassy (1948-1999), now The House on Sathorn beside W Bangkok. Bar director Marco Dongi reinterprets classics with Thai ingredients, era by era, with curated vinyl sessions Thursday to Sunday. No.17 in Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Niks Anuman-Rajadhon and Attaporn De-Silva's cathedral of creative cocktails in two restored Old Town shophouses, stained glass, red light, graffitied stone, a live pianist playing baroque through vintage cinema speakers, and a giant Palad Khik at the door. Every drink arrives with a food pairing, from ikura bombs to pandan cakes; the menu runs from oyster and uni drinks to a section titled 'excessive is necessary'. It was No. 26 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025 and holds No. 31 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.

'Liquid Surreality' on the top two floors of the POTONG building, a 120-year-old Chinatown shophouse that once hosted legal opium smoking, New York opulence meets late-night Bangkok under owner Arnon 'KK' Hoontrakul and Italian bar manager Matteo Cadeddu. Nearly fifty cocktails across apéritif-to-duo categories, four house gins with Thai regional character, and food from sister restaurant Potong downstairs. No.25 in Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026. Closed Wednesdays. It currently stands at No. 97 on The 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026, after No. 92 on the 51-100 list in 2025.

Serious cocktails minus the pretentiousness: named after James Bond's martini, Vesper has held a place in Asia's 50 Best Bars every year from 2016 to 2025 (peaking at No. 11 in 2020). Part of the Foodie Collection, the Silom room's current 'Britain Through Seasons' menu wanders the British year, a Rhubarb & Cream spring sour to a brûléed Baked Apple winter warmer. It currently stands at No. 56 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

From its modest start in 1947, The Bamboo Bar has grown into a Bangkok institution, the city's first jazz venue, still wrapped in its sensual 1950s ambience at the Mandarin Oriental. Live jazz plays nightly with band and vocalist, and the current 'Evolution' menu draws on the natural progression of bamboo and local Thai ingredients. Elegant attire after 6:30pm; no reservations, a sought-after walk-in. It received the Timeless International Award at the 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.

A garden bar within the Anantara Siam Bangkok, set beside the hotel's Parichart Court with a koi pond and terrace seating. It runs a nightly live music program alongside a cocktail list overseen by head mixologist Ryan Germino, and serves an a la carte food menu. It sits at No. 48 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.
'Delivered from the Grocery': the Bar Us team's conceptual outpost in a century-old Pom Prap shophouse, where everyday grocery ingredients become extraordinary cocktails and the room is arranged into grocery-inspired 'departments', cherry-wood communal tables built to kitchen-island height around an open bar. Winner of the Best Bar Design Award, Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025; No. 69 on the 51-100 list in 2026.

The glittering heart of the Sindhorn Kempinski: deep armchairs and dark wood offset by moss-green panelling, nightly live jazz, and a Casa Del Habano cigar parlour. Bar manager Dicky Hartono's program follows a firefly's global journey through a leather-bound menu. It was No. 82 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2025. Smart casual. It currently stands at No. 78 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026.

Rabbit Hole is a speakeasy located in Bangkok. Bangkok speakeasy scene.
Asia Today is a cocktail bar located in Bangkok. Asia's 51-100.

Teens of Thailand is a cocktail bar located in Bangkok. No.27 on Asia's 50 Best Bars in 2016.
Smalls is a jazz bar located in Bangkok. Jazz and cocktails.
A cocktail bar on the ground floor of The Salil Hotel on Thonglor Soi 1, entered through an unmarked door. The dimly lit room is arranged around a long wooden bar with planting and low seating. Bartender Chanchai Rodbamrung builds the list around local seasonal fruit and unusual ingredients.
The Loft sits on level 56 of Waldorf Astoria Bangkok and is styled as a glamorous vintage New York artist's studio. Art deco meets art nouveau around a bronze spiral staircase, with paint-splashed communal wooden tables and a floor-to-ceiling glass wall over the skyline. The cocktails draw on historic recipes from the Old Waldorf Bar in New York and The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book, reworked with house-made ingredients: the Waldorf pairs Michter's bourbon with Thai basil and chocolate bitters, and the Illusion adds homemade pandan soda. Bar bites are served, and tables are booked through SevenRooms. Forbes Travel Guide named it a Star Bar for 2025. It was No. 88 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2022.

A speakeasy-style cocktail lounge on the 11th floor of the MUU Bangkok Hotel on Thong Lo. The room is fitted out with a timber bar counter, tan leather seating, retro armchairs and a library corner. The drinks list centers on reworked classics and signatures built around a 1920s Prohibition theme.
A long-running Bangkok cocktail bar that has relocated into the Octo Seafood Bar complex on Soi Sukhumvit 24. The current room is pared back and minimalist while keeping the casual feel of the original venue. The list centers on Asian-led signature cocktails using house-infused spirits.
Find The Locker Room is a speakeasy located in Bangkok. Hidden bar concept.
These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Bangkok guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 54 with a map and filters.