Other cool places
Bed Supper Club
This is an uber-trendy purpose built cylinder at the top of Sukhumvit Soi 11. Outside it looks like it was dropped i form outer space. Inside, on the main floor, a DJ spins the latest funky grooves. Upstairs, on a balcony over looking the main floor are large long couches that encourage you to quite literally get laid back. If you lean right back to the back rest there is no way your feet can still touch the floor. There are tables built in on which to put your drinks. The whole event is bathed in an ever changing wash of coloured light.
Personally I found the seating/slouching arrangement a bit uncomfortable, unless I were to slide right back and fall asleep. Your mileage may vary. Certainly there were others there who seemed to be happy with the arrangement. However the club is not huge and the balcony provides an excellent vantage point for totty spotting. The beers are pretty pricey, but then they always are in such clubs.
Soi Sarasin
Soi Sarasin runs along the back of Lumpini Park. There are half a dozen bars along here that are popular mostly with trendy young locals. The bars seem to change their names in interior decoration quite frequently but they never seem to grow in number.
The only exception is the last bar on the strip. This has always been called Brown Sugar, hosts live jazz and is popular with expats. It’s not a bad place at all, it’s safe to take the missus and the mother-in-law but the drinks are more expensive than in the girlie bars.
The nearest skytrain station is Ratchdamri.
The Londoner
On the corner of Sukhumvit Soi 33 in the basement of an otherwise unremarkable commercial building is a rather remarkable pub. It’s not easy to spot but once inside Bangkok recedes and Victorian England takes over…well almost. Were it not for the Thai staff you could be forgiven for thinking you had stepped through a hole in space and time.
There are, of course, other English style pubs in Bangkok but none of the others do it so well and none of the others brew their own beer. Londoners Pride is the only classic English style bitter brewed in Thailand. And it is served in a proper straight glass, otherwise known as a ’sleeve’…although the crest on the side is a little bit hoighty-toity
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