People and places / Bangkok
Stories
Profiles, features and neighbourhood stories about the people, routines and details that give a place its character.
Dining / Sukhumvit Soi 16
A Greek evening above Sukhumvit Soi 16
AESOPS combines modern Greek food, Bangkok views and a lively rooftop format on level 25 of Column Bangkok Hotel.
New in the neighbourhood / Sukhumvit Soi 16
ALIEN lands deeper inside Soi 16
ALIEN Bangkok is a fine bistro with borderless cooking and an art-led interior tucked deeper inside Sukhumvit Soi 16.
Dining / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Penang by way of Sukhumvit Soi 16
Makan Makan brings contemporary Malaysian cooking inspired by Penang and Eurasian food traditions to a quiet Asoke address.
After dark / Asoke
The Golden Hour, Extended
Amber does what a good cocktail bar should do and not much more, which turns out to be quite difficult to achieve well.
Active Bangkok / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Eleven Floors Up: The Club That Started Something
Most people walk past the Foodland building on Soi 16 without a second thought.
Dining / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Home Cooking, Properly Done
Baan Thai Suk 16 occupies the particular niche that every neighbourhood needs and Bangkok's tourist-facing restaurant scene increasingly struggles to provide: proper Thai home cooking, made by people who grew up eating it, served at prices that make sense for the area.
Wellness / Sukhumvit Soi 16
How Do You Define Wellness?
For some it is the absence of pain. For others, the presence of something harder to name.
Craft / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Made for You, Right Here
Bangkok's tailoring industry is old and deep, and Charlie Tailor has built its reputation within it by doing the work that the reputation requires.
Coffee / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Coffee Club
Not every morning needs to be experimental.
Dining / Soi Phai Singto
The Market Before the Restaurant
El Mercado started with four people doing it all, six tables, ten cheeses and cold-cuts, a coffee machine, and a lot of ideas, dreams, and hopes.
Fitness / Asoke
45 Minutes, No Excuses
F45, functional training in 45 minutes, arrived in Bangkok with a global reputation and has earned its place in the Asoke fitness landscape on its own merits.
Dining / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Fresh Every Day, No Exceptions
There is a deceptively simple reason why Famtime became Soi 16's most popular restaurant in just a few years: they make the pasta and pizza dough fresh every single day.
Neighbourhood institution / Sukhumvit Soi 16
The address that stays open
Foodland and Took Lae Dee keep groceries and a hot meal available around the clock on Sukhumvit Soi 16.
Dining / Asoke
From the Levant to Soi 16
El Elbasha sits in the strong Middle Eastern dining scene that the Asoke and Sukhumvit corridor has developed over the past decade.
Movement / Asoke
The Method That Changes Your Body
FS8 combines Pilates reformer work, yoga-influenced movement, and HIIT elements into a class structure that addresses strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular conditioning simultaneously.
Coffee / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Green Thinking, Good Coffee
Grun, the German word for green, arrived on Soi 16 with a clear point of view: that a cafe could be both an excellent coffee destination and a thoughtfully designed space that takes its relationship with plants and produce seriously.
Coffee / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Hidden in Plain Sight
The name is the point. Invisible Coffee does not announce itself. There is no large sign, no branded awning designed for Instagram, no queue management system for weekend crowds.
Partner story / Asoke
Live Here.
Benjakitti Park at your door. The city on your terms.
Coffee / Sukhumvit Soi 16
First Pour
Kuppa helped establish Bangkok's late-1990s cafe culture with in-house roasting, an international menu and room to stay awhile.
Practical Bangkok / Khlong Toei
MedPark Hospital Near Soi 16
A practical reference for hospital access near Soi 16, Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre and MRT Khlong Toei.
Dining / Sukhumvit Soi 16
A Lebanese Family Story, Told in Soi 16
Yahya Qatramiz is Lebanese, born in Bangkok, which tells you most of what you need to know about why Mezze exists.
Cafe and brunch / Sukhumvit Soi 16
The Morning You Needed
Lazy Daisy is for the mornings when you have nowhere to be. It is for the long brunch that stretches past noon, for the second coffee that you did not plan to order, for sitting with a book or a conversation and letting the street move past the window.
Getting around / Bangkok
MuvMi: Electric Tuk-Tuk Rides Around Bangkok
MuvMi connects Bangkok neighbourhood zones through an app-based electric tuk-tuk ride-pooling service.
Dining / Sukhumvit Soi 22
The Teak House That Time Built
The building is the first thing. A large traditional Thai teak house estimated to date to the reign of King Rama II, roughly two hundred years ago, sits in a quiet sub-soi off Sukhumvit 22, its dark wooden eaves visible through the trees before the entrance comes into view.
Dining / Sukhumvit Soi 16
A Neighbourhood Bar That Happens to Cook Well
New's has evolved into one of Soi 16's more versatile evenings out. It is the kind of place that works for an early dinner with the family, shifts into a proper bar scene later, and manages both without feeling like it is trying to be two different things at once.
Dining / Asoke
A slower Japanese dinner at Tensui
Tensui brings traditional Japanese dining, kaiseki menus and a quiet garden setting to Sukhumvit Soi 16.
Dining / Asoke
After Dark in Asoke
A white house on Sukhumvit Soi 16 introduces Bangkok to modern Latvian cooking.
Muay Thai / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Where Champions Come to Train
Yokkao was founded on a simple premise: that authentic Muay Thai training had been diluted by commercialisation in Bangkok, and that a gym in the heart of the city could do it properly.
Dining / Sukhumvit Soi 16
The Spice That Wakes You Up
Zaab Kak Kak is not trying to be gentle with you. The name itself, zaab meaning delicious in the Isan dialect, kak kak suggesting the heat, is a statement of intent.
Neighbourhood market / Sukhumvit Soi 16
The Street Before the Street Wakes Up
Whale Market is a weekday neighbourhood institution built around the working rhythms of Sukhumvit Soi 16.
Neighbourhood note / Sukhumvit Soi 16
Why Soi 16?
A Bangkok side street where the park, daily rituals and an independent local scene meet.