Satisfy Your Stomach When Traveling: Recommended Restaurants in Bangkok

Bangkok's Blue Elephant is a must-go restaurant that has become a beacon of restaurants for dinner. It is recommended by both The Michelin Guide and Black Pearl Restaurant Guide. It features royal Thai cuisine, with an ambiance and service that are also quite "royal". Since 1980, its founder has brought the cuisine to all parts of the world. After winning Michelin Guide's highest honor of 3 stars in Brussels, it has returned to its birthplace in Bangkok. As it has such a great reputation, even politicians and celebrities need to make a reservation to go there. Blue Elephant makes bags of curry sauce and they are available everywhere, and they also offer cooking classes by reservation.

Recommendations: foie gras, curry, codfish

Reservation required; formal dress preferred, and short skirts, shorts and slippers are not allowed~

Address: 233 Thanon Sathon Tai, Yannawa

Opening hours: 11:30 - 14:30, 18:30 - 22:30

Located in a Thai-style royal building by the riverside of the Chao Phraya River, Sala Rim Naam in Mandarin Oriental Bangkok offers traditional Thai cuisine in a great environment. There will be Thai-style boats to take guests from the hotel to the restaurant, and there will be a Thai cultural performance for you to feast your eyes on. Not only can you enjoy traditional Thai food, but you can also enjoy a range of Thai-style services at a great value. Lunch buffet and dinner set are both available.

Recommendations: coconut ice cream, fried shrimp cakes, chicken salad

Closed every Wednesday; reservation required for riverside seats; formal dress required for dinner

Address: 48 Oriental Avenue, Bangkok 10500, Thailand

Opening hours: 12:00 - 14: 30, 19:00 - 22:30

Although it is not well known among tourists, the locals love this restaurant very much. It has almost no negative reviews, and it is recommended by Michelin Guide. One customer commented, "Every dish is quite tasty". It mainly serves Eastern Thai dishes and seafood, using fresh ingredients. It is located in Thonglor Street, Sukhumvit. There are lots of instagramable shops nearby, which are very convenient to visit~

Recommended dishes: coconut curry crab, pudding and chicken wings

It's best to make a reservation on its official website before going there

Address: 160/11 Soi 55 (Thonglor) Sukhumvit Sukhumvit Road, Klongton Nuer Wattana, Bangkok 10110

Opening hours: 17:00 - 22:30

A Michelin Guide's one-star restaurant with a fair price, and won best restaurant in Bangkok in 2019. Its name is derived from a traditional Thai dessert, meaning good luck. This restaurant only prepares traditional Thai food, featuring a lot of Thai spices. The sauce used at the restaurant is made by its owner. It is the only restaurant in Thailand that sticks to traditional Thai style among Michelin Guide's one-star restaurants. Those who want to have authentic Thai food must not miss this one.

Recommendations: pork floss with salted eggs, dried shrimps with green beans, and coconut chicken soup

There are 3 sets available, priced at 1200-2200 Baht.

Address: 130-132 Wireless Road, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Opening hours: 11:30 - 14:00, 18:00 - 22:00 (Bar: 17:00 - 24:00)

This restaurant probably attracts the most locals in Siam Square. The restaurant is named after their signature dish, Som Tam Nua (Green Papaya Salad), which was once rated as the best food in Bangkok by CNN. Northeastern Thai cuisine is the main feature of this restaurant, which has a limited selection of dishes. Yet, almost everything is delicious and inexpensive.

Recommendations: green papaya salad (a must-have), pork neck,fried chicken, water spinach

Address: 392/14 Siam Square SOI 5, Khwaeng Pathum Wan, Khet Pathum Wan. Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10330

Opening Hours: 10: 45 - 21: 30

This restaurant had been continuously rated as the best restaurant in Thailand between 2009 and 2017. It is a super secluded restaurant. Not many people know about it, and you have to enter the Rose Hotel's roadside entrance to find it. A century-old house made from teak wood, with green plants, a swimming pool, and an overall quiet and beautiful environment. It is a great place to relax after a long day of checking out sites. There is a middle-aged lady who can speak Chinese in the restaurant to help you order your food.

Recommendations: stir-fried soft-shelled crab in black pepper sauce, pomelo salad with prawns, soft-shelled crab stir-fried in curry powder with garlic

Address: 118 In front of Wat Hua Lam Phong, Rose Hotel, Surawong Road, Si Phraya Subdistrict, Bang Rak District, Bangkok 10500, Thailand

Opening hours: 12:00 - 23:00

This is a Michelin-recommended restaurant. This restaurants features southern style Thai food, and it's rarely been found by the Chinese. It is about a 10-minute walk from Terminal 21. Its century-old Southern Thai stilted house and garden villa design is quite conspicuous. There are many antiques on display for you to check out.

Recommendations: crab made with yellow curry, fried eggs with leaves, mango sticky rice, milk tea

Sets are only available at noon; Their waiters/waitresses will help you order your food; Make sure to protect yourself from mosquitoes when eating outdoors.

Address: 32-32/1 Sukumvit 23, Klong Toey Nue, Wattana, Bangkok 10110

Opening hours: 11:30 - 14:30, 17:30 - 23:30

Belonging to Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, Black Pearl's 2-Star restaurants and Michelin-recommended restaurants, this restaurant has 17 years of history. The dishes are mainly a mixture of western food and Thai food from the chef's hometown, and there is a bar to order drinks. The waiters/waitresses there are very friendly, and they will help you take photos and assist with lighting.

Recommendations: black-bone chicken salad, roasted beef tongue, truffles, lemon chicken

Don't forget to make a reservation in advance on their official website.

Address: 20 meters off Convent Rd (in Soi Pipat 2), Silom, Bangkok 10500

Opening hours: 15:00 - 01:00

Bangkok's tallest building, Baiyoke/Sky Hotel, with the durian buffet shown on Tik Tok available at the fruit buffet in the cafeteria on the 18th floor. Floors 75-82 also provide buffets, such as seafood, Thai food, international cuisine... there is a good variety of styles. From the revolving restaurant at the top, Bangkok's sunset and night view can be seen from a 360-degree view.

Recommendations: cafeteria on F81-82. There are not many people, so it's not crowded.

Go to the 19th floor for an admission ticket before going upstairs. It's windy outside, so remember to bring a jacket

Address: 222 SOI Ratchaparrarop 3, Rathaprarop Road, Ratchathewi

Opening hours: make your reservation before 21: 00

This restaurant has continually won the Best Restaurant Award in Thailand since 2007. With its extremely convenient location, it has branches in two shopping malls in the Siam business center (Siam Paragon and Erawan Bangkok) and it has a quiet and beautiful dining environment. If you are tired after a long day of shopping in the Siam business center and do not want to go anywhere else, this is a good choice. Butterfly pea rice is their specialty.

Recommendations: shrimp cakes, mango rice, fried spinach

The restaurant in Siam Paragon isn't as busy as the one in Erawan Bangkok and offers better service

Address: G floor of Siam Paragon, B1 of Erawan Bangkok

Opening hours: 10:00 - 22:00