Bangkok Dining & Restaurants
 There's no shortage of eating options in Bangkok. Eat in a roadside noodle stall and watch the world go by. Savour seafood at a local restaurant perched over the river; enjoy exquisite food from a swish hotel restaurant overlooking the city; or take a quick snack in a shopping mall food court. Whatever you choose, and wherever you are staying, you won't be disappointed.
 Lang Suan Restaurants
Plenty of smart new restaurants can be found in this boulevard-like road. Cool and chic eateries occupy both the main road (Lang Suan) and the small sois branching off. Lang Suan also seems to be a magnet for international restaurants, especially Italian - we count seven within a few minute's walk from our office in the Millennia Tower!
 The Ninth Café
Open: Tues - Sun 11:00 - 22:00
Location: 59/5 Soi Lang Suan
Contact: +66 (0)2 255 7125-7
Skytrain: Chitlom or Ratchadamri
Combining a coffee shop, restaurant and a ladies' boutique for ready-to-wear and made-to-order dresses, The Ninth Café offers an elegant atmosphere as well as extensive menu including appetizers, salads, soups and European and popular Thai dishes. It is an ideal place for business meals or intimate dining.
Calderazzo
Open: 11:30 - 14:00, 18:00 - 22:30
Location: 59 Lang Suan, Ploenchit
Contact: +66 (0)2 252 8108-9
Skytrain: Chitlom or Ratchadamri
Calderazzo seems to be joining the extended list of understated Bangkok new wave restaurants. Almost stark in appearance with white tablecloths, cream interior and very little fussy decoration, it's clean and refreshing airy with an emphasis on well cooked Italian food. A ceiling to floor glass wall gives a great view over Lang Suan, giving a feeling of being outside on the street, rather than air-conditioned comfort. (READ MORE)
Ma Be Ba
Open: 11:30 - 14:00, 18:00 - 02:00
Location: 93 Soi 5 Lang Suan, Ploenchit
Contact: +66 (0)2 253 9426
Skytrain: Chitlom or Ratchadamri
The name 'Ma-Be-Ba' derives from the beginning of the three Italian words; Mangaire (food), Bere (drink) and Ballare (dance). Located among the many other eateries on Lang Suan, this Italian restaurant is said to be the cream of the crop. The wall coverings are flamboyant, there is a tiled mosaic floor and even a mock Sistine Chapel. A huge open kitchen allows you to watch the cooks at work. Flamenco music plays in the background as you eat. The flexible menu changes on a regular basis. The delicious pizzas are made from fresh dough and there is also a selection of pasta and seafood. For dessert, the Tiramisu is particularly delectable.
No 43 Italian Bistro
Open: 6:00 - 24:00
Location: Ground Floor, Cape House Serviced Apartment, 43 Soi Lang Suan
Contact: +66 (0)2 658 7444 ext 285
Skytrain: Chitlom or Ratchadamri
A restaurant with a wonderful ambience serves authentic Italian cuisine, The venue is a perfect place for all occasions with your friend and family. Buffet lunch from 11:00 - 14:30.
Le Pré Grill
Open: Mon - Sat, lunch 11:30 - 14:30, dinner 18:00 - 22:30
Location: 73/2 Lang Suan Soi 4
Contact: +66 (0)2 253 5919
Skytrain: Chitlom or Ratchadamri
Le Pré Grill offers an authentic French cuisine in an intimate and charming ambiance in the heart of Lang Suan. The restaurant's Master Chef, Alain Geistlich, flew directly from Le Pré Grill, Paris to take charge in food preparation to ensure consistency in the taste of finest authentic French cuisine that allow you to indulge yourself, without having to travel across continents. Many exquisite signature dishes include 'crêpe de saumon' (pancake salmon), 'boeuf bourguignon' (stew beef) and 'blanc manger' (vanilla cream). A carefully chosen wine list is also available to compliment the fine dining experience.
Ploenchit Restaurants
Ploenchit, with its high end shopping, offices and embassies has its fair share of chic and smart places to fill your tummy. Around Lang Suan just off Chitlom among the high end apartments are lots of interesting little restaurants and cool bars serving food from fusion to pub grub.
Riverside Restaurants
Bangkok's traditional heartland, the riverside, is a great place to go for a sundowner, a romantic dinner cruise, a relaxing lunch, or for afternoon tea. Alongside the old temples, warehouses, wooden houses and old buildings you'll find classy hotels serving wonderful buffet lunches and sublime afternoon tea. You'll also find local restaurants perched on old wooden piers serving seafood platters, floating restaurants and smart places to eat in Thai houses along the river banks.
Siam Restaurants 
Synonymous with shopping, Siam provides a huge variety of eating places to pause between shopping at one mall and the next. Inside and around the shopping malls are lots small restaurants, fast food chains (local and international) coffee shops and good value food courts. Great places to eat when you're on a shopping mission.
Siam Centre & Siam Discovery Shopping Malls
These large modern malls offer some of the nicer fast food chains like Au Bon Pain. Great value Italian serving a good range of pasta dishes and the usual Starbucks on the ground floor of Siam Discovery. Plus lots of ethinic restaurants like Chinese, Japanese Ramen, etc., on the upper floors of both shopping malls. You won't go hungry. If you like Vietnamese cuisine try Pho on the 4th floor of Siam Center.
Open: 10:00 - 22:00
Location: Siam Square
BTS: Siam
MBK Centre
Seven floors of shopping also mean a good choice of places to eat. Food courts, local, ethnic and theme restaurants, plus international and local fast food chains, inbetween Karaoke sessions in the booths located on the top floors near the cinemas. Just wander around and explore!
Open: 11:00 - 22:00
Location: Siam
BTS: National Stadium
Sukhumvit Restaurants
Sukhumvit Road stretching east to west across central Bangkok to the suburbs, is home to many of Bangkok's established hotels, restaurants and expat favourites. Alongside the old noodle shops and street vendors that still remain, are many ethnic restaurants hidden away along Sukhumvit's many side streets (sois) as well as those on the main road around the hotels.
Soi 4 Nana Plaza
This well known entertainment complex also has a number of local good value eating places. Try Jool's Bar & Restaurant a British-style just past Nana Entertainment Plaza has a dining room above the downstairs bar serving hearty English food. Excellent French cooking at Le Banyan located along Soi 8 in a charming Thai style house. French classics and excellent wine list. Not cheap but good quality. Maharajas also offers top notch Indian dishes at half the price found elsewhere. Lots of Thalis and a good vegetarian selection.
Sois 11
Mrs Balbir's, hidden away in Soi 11 next to the Swiss Park Hotel, serves home cooked north Indian dishes with lots of masalas, vindaloos and vegetarian food. Closed on Mondays. Pasand in Soi 12 also has northern Indian food. Govinda (Soi 11), an unusual Italian vegetarian restaurant, serves the standard Italian fare, plus vegetarian dishes catering also to vegans. Pizzas come fron a genuine brick oven. De Meglio, opposite the Grand President Tower, also offers Italian regional food with a good selection of vegetarian entrees.
Soi 12
Also contains one of Bangkok's most famous restaurants - Cabbages & Condoms, an established attraction on the Bangkok dining circuit with its imaginative menu and free condoms. Profits go towards family planning and AIDS prevention programmes in Thailand.
In the same soi, Crepes & Co has crepes (of course) continental breakfasts, and Mediterranean, Moroccan and Spanish for lunch and dinner.
Sois 16 - 20
Sukhumvit has many first class hotels that offer excellent dining options. At the Rembrandt Hotel in Soi 18, is Senor Pico's, a cheerful looking restaurant that offers tex-mex favourites like fajitas, carnitas, nachos and combination platters. Also at the Rembrandt Hotel, Rang Mahal, a rooftop restaurant, offers a combinatin of city views and Indian Royal cuisine. Sumptuous Indian buffets from 11:30 to 15:00 on Sundays. Still up there with high views is the rooftop Tycoon Fine Indian at The Windsor Suites Hotel in Sukhumvit Soi 20. 
Soi 22
The well estblished US expat favourite Bourbon St Bar & Restaurant (behind the Washington Theatre) with its Cajun and Creole cooking, great service and US Sports. It's also open for breakfast. Larry's Dive Center, Bar & Grill located in a bright yellow building has more US favourites plus a touch of humour in the kitch decor and newspaper menu.
Soi 23
Sukhumvit naturally has its fair share of Thai restaurants including places specialising in seafood where your dinner is freshly caught from the holding tanks and cooked any way you choose. For a gargantuan feast try the Seafood Palace (opposite Soi Asok) or the huge seafood restaurant way down Soi 24. For tasty Thai, Laicram in Soi 23 offers house specialities like 'haw mok' a delicious kind of fish mousse, and 'Gai hor bai toey' (chicken wrapped and cooked in pandanus leaves). For great Vietnamese try Le Dalat (see review) which has established quite a reputation among locals also in Soi 23.
Soi 24
A home to the upmarket yet unpretentious Emporium Shopping Centre - with several good value restaurants on its 4th, 5th and 6th floors, including an excllent food court with a wide choice of Asian and Western food. On the 4th floor, the Greyhound Cafe has become a cool place to hang out for local expats with a menu that includes Thai, Italian and Mediterranean cuisine. Also in Soi 24, Thailand's first microbrewery, Brauhaus-Bangkok, located on the ground floor at the President Park Hotel, German food and draught beer are available in a huge air-con dining room or at outdoor tables.
Thinking of a special night out? Thai food and ambience can be found at restaurants like Lemongrass and Baan Khanitha (see review). Both are located in old Thai houses with interiors full of artifacts and antiques.
Soi 33 and 33/1
The Japanese community in Bangkok has quietly settled in over the last few years making their mark on Bangkok's culinary map. You can find clusters of Japanese restaurants all over Bangkok but here on Sukhumvit Sois 33 & 33/1 you find Japanese restaurants, Karoke places and sushi bars patronised largely by expat Japanese. Close to Soi 33 is the Londoner Brew Pub and The Bull's Head Pub serving a diet of British standard pub grub plus sports and beers on draught.
Sois 34 & 36
If you've already tried the incredibly spicy food from north-east region often found around the markets, try some new specialities in the Lao restaurants around Sois 34 and 36. You'll find favourites like 'larb' (minced pork/chilli/mint/lime salad) among some of the more esoteric dishes at places like Vientienc Kitchen (Soi 36) accompanied by 'mor lam' (rythmic north-eastern Thai country music) every evening. If you just want to eat outside for a quick snack, there are lots of 'quick stop' places around Hualampong Railway Station located on Soi 34, but easier to access from Soi 26.
Soi 55 (Soi Thonglor)
With its cool clubs, trendy bars and small eateries is becoming a local alternative to the city centre. The Soi stretehes a few kilometres so take a taxi to The Witches Tavern - pub grub and good rock & roll bands, The Tasman Pub - Aussie fare and lager and a number of local restaurants in the small sois.
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