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Once one of the most electric rooms in town, during its heyday Biscotti was packed with movers and shakers sitting at tables so close together that you were privy to the celebratory conversations of your neighbors. The cavernous room’s bare walls also echoed the sounds of cooks at work in the open...
The buzz: If you’re tired of Bangkok’s trend of cookie-cutter wine bars that prioritize style over substance, head to this new gastro wine bar in Soi Langsuan, Bisou, where exquisitely crafted French-inspired sharing plates mingle with a meticulously curated of wine list, featuring both unique and...
Run by the same people behind Water Library and Hong Bao, Bistro Amarone serves up impressive, authentic Italian dishes at very reasonable prices. Popular dishes include the wood-fired square pizza, scallop and eggplant ravioli and mango tart with passion fruit sorbet. Otherwise, you can also drop...
On our last visit, on a Friday night, Bistro Convent sat empty save for our table and a man dining alone, reading a book. Given the adorably cliched setting—woven chairs, round marble tops facing leafy Soi Convent, chalkboard above the bar—we almost wished he were smoking a Gitane.
The food is...
Bitterman is a triumph of style over substance. Set in a spacious two-story glasshouse teeming with tropical greenery, the restaurant is a picturesque refuge from bustling Upper Silom. The food, though, is mired in mediocrity. Like many a Thai bistro, the menu goes big on pasta, protein and cheese—...
With its name standing for “Brew It Yourself,” this is a showroom-slash-cafe offshoot of online coffee equipment shop Beans Here.
Self-trained roaster and co-owner Sirichai “So” Sakornvisava is already a well-known figure among coffee geeks for his workshops, which you can take here starting at...
The buzz: Absolute Bagels is a bagel shop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side where the breakfast crowd queues out the door and around the corner and all the staff are Thai. No kidding. So it’s been a shame that all this time there have been no decent bagels in Bangkok. Sure, we have tiny, flavorless...
Forget pretty little places to show off your fixed gear: this one’s for the serious cyclists. The distributor of Bkool bike shoes has set up this facility where people can try out its products as well as compete against thousands of other bikers virtually. To keep you from starving yourself, the...
Cafe Bicycle on Phloen Chit Road has gone. But you can now find the same people just two units away at Black Box, specializing in breakfast.
For now, there's an all day breakkie menu (7:30am-4pm) which includes dishes like pulled-pork eggs Benedict (B220) and espresso-dusted tuna (grilled tuna...
The new cutesy cat-inspired Black Breeze Café serves up a menu of pasta and dessert. Popular picks include the spaghetti coq au vin blanc or lasagna (both at B165).
Occasional desserts include red velvet cake (B105), the Japanese matcha-choc mousse (B95) and matcha cheesecake (B115).
A warning for...