Bangkok restaurants within walking distance
Baan Khanitha
Anyone who visits more often Thailand goes, or perhaps lives there, will have his or her own favorite restaurants. One will aspire to atmosphere, another will pay more attention to culinary delights and someone else perhaps the pleasant service or the location of the establishment in question. In short, food literally concerns a very personal taste and is of course partly dependent on the budget to be spent.
In the early years that I visited Thailand, among other things, I was too often guided by the recommendations in the Lonely Planet and other travel guides. Strangely enough, I often came home from a rude awakening and the eatery in question lived up to expectations only slightly.
Bangkok
Of course, dining options in a metropolis like Bangkok are innumerable and the possibilities are almost unlimited. Yet it is often quite a task for the uninitiated to find something nice, especially if you don't want to walk the tourist path that is so neatly paved. Tourist dining attractions, such as the grand restaurant on the 76th floor of the Bayoke Tower, despite the magnificent view of the city, is more of an attraction in an atmospheric automated-run restaurant. Silom Village, located on Silom Road, although nice in design, is also focused exclusively on tourists.
And what about an 'attraction' like the 'No Hands' restaurant where a lovely Thai beauty brings the food to your mouth? As a normal mortal you shouldn't think of something so colonial. You will hardly encounter a Thai in these restaurants. But yes, there is also a target group for these occasions, each to his own, shall we say.
On a journey of discovery
Shall we go on a journey of discovery together and visit some crazy and less crazy eateries? We then go to a few restaurants where Thai cuisine is central and which are hardly comparable. Let's keep it simple and start at Soi Cowboy. After all, this is a street that is known to many and easily accessible, both by BTS Skytrain and by underground.
We are now on the corner at Old Dutch at the end of Soi Cowboy and turn right there. About forty meters further on the right side we see a small restaurant listening to the name 'Love Scene'. Don't be afraid and quietly enter through the narrow entrance. Outside on the street side you have already seen that fish lovers can get their money's worth here. It is a very simple little restaurant with bare tables where a mix of Thai and farang meet. Do not expect culinary delights, but taste the atmosphere.
Not a fish lover? No worries. We are again on the corner at Old Dutch, but now we turn left and then after about a hundred meters we turn right at the Fine Italian Restaurant Giusto. We had agreed to go on the Thai tour, so we skip our Italian friend's neat restaurant this time. Fifty meters further we see the Wanakarn restaurant on the left. Pay close attention to the hard-to-see sign with the name of the restaurant. If you are a fan of Thai cuisine, you should definitely go in here and let yourself be pampered for a bargain price. The serving ladies wear a funny headscarf and the visitors are mainly Thai.
On our journey of discovery we walk further to Wanakarn's near neighbor, listening to the name Bharani and Thai dishes are also served here. The restaurant is more simply decorated than the neighbor and it won't cost you anything here either. We walk on again and within twenty meters on the same side come across Pak Bakery, specializing in lunch dishes and pastries. We walk on and see another Thai restaurant on the other side of the street called Puangkeauw. Like many Thai eateries, this restaurant is also not expensive. If you want to eat Thai food and drink a good glass of wine in a trendy atmosphere, then walk fifty meters further. There you will see the Modern Asian Cuisine, restaurant Lo-Shu. It costs a few bahts more here than at the aforementioned restaurants, but we have it holiday.
Pegasus Bangkok
If you want to see Bangkok's most exclusive gentlemen's club (from the outside) just walk a few steps further and you will see Pegasus. Entrance including two drinks 1800 baht. If you also want to be in the company of a hostess, you pay 900 baht per 45 minutes. And you can't leave that sweetheart on a dry land and for that you will of course also have to dig into the stock market. Go ahead and grab a bite to eat. And if money is no object then go to Baan Khanitha, my favorite restaurant located in Soi 23. From the aforementioned Old Dutch you walk to the left and it is a walk of about five to ten minutes. The restaurant is located on the right side and you can dine inside and outside in a cozy atmosphere and the price is not too bad for a restaurant of this class.
Self 22
If you literally ignore Soi Cowboy on Sukhumvit Road and continue walking on the right side of the road to Soi 22, you will see a small intimate restaurant on the left after about a hundred meters in this street, listening to the name Khing Klao.
A very nice and cheap establishment with specialties from the northeast of Thailand. At the end of Soi 22 is the big one hotels Le Dalat. At the fork, go left for 25 metres. You will see the tiny shopping center 'Camp Davis' on the right with a Starbucks coffee shop at the entrance. Walk in there and be surprised in the particularly atmospheric restaurant called Sukothai. You won't regret that either. This latter case may be a bit too far for a walk. Don't worry: at the beginning of Soi 22 there is a moped taxi stand. A special experience on the buddy seat, but you will also see plenty of taxis in case you do not aspire to the moped ride of a few minutes.
All mentioned restaurants are within walking distance of Soi Cowboy and all specialize in Thai cuisine. Not comparable, but each one unique in its kind.
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Hi Joseph, thanks for the info. Handy when I go to Bangkok again. Eating without hands also seems fun, it's been a long time since I was last fed.
Restaurant Sukothai - at the end of Soi 22 - is temporarily closed due to renovation of the small shopping center.
Thank you. A good looking culinary round trip. That's where we use.
Good tips. Another very good restaurant in this area is the new Balee Laos, left at the end in Suk soi16, with wine room and some very acceptable Bordeaux. The former Balee Laos (in the same soi just before on the right) has been called Sea Squid for a month or so, and has a mainly fish menu. Same owner.
and not to forget, diagonally opposite the entrance of Robinson on the corner of Soi 15, the age-old restaurant (I have been coming there since 1972) try the duck, mmmm delicious
I wonder what the food costs there, going next year for the first time.
Honestly, I've never been there. Too expensive. I think the difference is so big with a dinner around the corner for only 100 baths. Besides, I wonder if it's all that good.
To pick up on the restaurants recommended by travel guides, I am currently in Thailand and recently went to a more or less well-known restaurant, “Cabbages & Condoms”, for the first time. This was also the first time that I really disliked a restaurant.
Bad and expensive food combined with bad service wrapped in a nice gimmick. I think Cabbages & Condoms can be summed up with that. The food was actually just bad (even the rice was not prepared properly), the service dropped plates with some regularity and came to tables with wrong orders, and to top it all off, an unannounced price was added to the already hefty prices. tax and service fee.
I like the gimmick, the idea behind it as well, but as a restaurant in my opinion absolutely not recommended.
Absolutely recommended in my eyes (excuse the spelling) Home kitchen at the end of Langsuan, Khung Kung on the water near the Royal Palace, the old woman under the viaduct at the U-turn between Prakhanon and On Nut (this remains my favorite eatery in Bangkok), and a mother and daughter's little diner opposite the mall department store in nonthaburi (with the green interior).
This is a winner, you have to spend a few hours for it, the Dutch owner of Indonesian descent also serves smoked eel, perfect food and a good host, as it should be ( http://www.mataharirestaurant.com/ ) let me know what you think of it
too bad it is in Pattaya, you can't get me there, let him start a branch in BKK
topper in bangkok ( http://saxophonepub.com/2010/ ) at the victorry monument
Old Dutch restaurant changed its name several years ago. The former Dutch. owner has left and is said to have opened a restaurant in Chiang Rai.
I was there not so long ago, Niek. It may have changed hands, but I think it still says “Old Dutch” everywhere, on the windows, on the menu and on the bill. this Dutch restaurant is also still mentioned on many websites. I am talking about “Old Dutch” in Soi Cowboy, or is (was) there another restaurant with the same name?
Yes, I was wrong, that is indeed correct, but there is now an Englishman with of course an English menu; So no bitterballs, croquettes, half-eat sandwiches, etc. or has the new owner also adopted that Dutch culinary art? Next week I will commute to Bangkok again and will inform myself then
I recently had lunch there with a cheese and mincemeat sandwich (with mustard), delicious!!!
Walked by 2 weeks ago, they still advertise croquettes and frikandellen in Cowboy. Not that they were ever tasty there anyway, if they had them at all. I'm talking about a few years ago. Returned home empty-handed 3 times, and after they finally had them once, never returned. Perhaps that was just in the transitional period, perhaps the owner was still a bit hesitant between Shepherd's pie and a real Dutch beast with mayo on the menu or something.
Well I was in Chiang Rai 2 years ago, and ended up in a bar that had a Dutch menu. Also ordered croquettes there that were really impossible to get rid of, 1 soggy knit. I don't know if it was the croquettes, the oil, or the cook - my art of deep-frying doesn't reach that far. Perhaps that was the cafe of the guy Niek mentions.
Well, there is also plenty of good food in Thailand.