Eating and Drinking in Bangkok - by District

Bangkok is a culinary delight and you'll never be left wanting for delicious food no matter the price - no matter the nationality.

See our page on Thai Food and popular dishes
See our page on Dinner Cruises along the Chao Phraya River

Click on the Bangkok district name to get Food and Drink recommendations for each area

    Sukhumvit: The long Sukhumvit Road, changing its name to Ploenchit Road and Rama I Road going west, is Bangkok's modern commercial core, full of glitzy malls and hotels. Food Page - Drink Page

Silom: To the south of Sukhumvit, the area around Silom Road and Sathorn Road is Thailand's sober financial center by day, but Bangkok's primary party district by night when quarters like the infamous Patpong come alive. Suriwongse Road - the entrance to Patpong road and the gay area opposite it.

  Rattanakosin: Between the river and Sukhumvit lies the densely packed "Old Bangkok", home to Bangkok's best-known wats. Yaowarat (Chinatown) and sights around the Chao Phraya River are also included here. Bangkok's backpacker mecca Khao San Road and the surrounding district of Banglamphu are located on the northern part of Rattanakosin.

Khao San Road is street about three blocks long located about a block from the Chao Phraya River in the Banglamphu district northwest of downtown Bangkok. Backpackers and budget tourists are drawn by some of the cheapest accommodation and travel deals in Thailand. In the span of just a couple of blocks, there are bars, food stalls, restaurants, convenience stores, pharmacies, Internet cafés, money changing booths, ATMs, shoe stores, massage parlors, tailors, travel agencies, laundry, boxing gyms, optometrists and endless warrens of suspiciously discounted designer clothes.