More diminutive than definitive, but we hope we’ve covered just enough to whet your appetite.

The not-so-good: Bangkok isn’t great for the hydro homies. Free-flow filtered water? You’d be lucky to find more than a few spots. Expect to tote around a lot of water bottles. And…expect (very) dark roast coffee practically everywhere.

The good: the food. Especially, to our surprise, those less street-food-y types. Read through and you’ll see why.

The Bangkok guide is divided into 4 categories, ordered alphabetically within each list, and will continuously be updated – photos and individual posts coming next.

The great:

• Charmgang Curry Shop: Spectacular. From the cowa leaves curry (fantastic, with the smokiest, most luscious pork jowl) to the grilled koji-aged picanha skewer (paired with a stunning fermented fish chili and tomato relish) to sublime duck. Only downside is the desserts pale in comparison – both the Thai caramel rice bar and custard apple in coconut syrup were a step below the cooked dishes. Also, they can be a bit heavy handed on the salt, even for a saline boi like me – e.g. the smoked swordfish curry was delectable, with gorgeously cooked and smoky fish, but crept up in saltiness towards the end. The casual setup of the place is great though, absolutely buzzing with a lovely open kitchen, beautifully decorated walls, perfect light levels etc. A must-visit, like every other spot in the “Great” category.
• Cote by Mauro Colagreco: Close to faultless. Impeccable service, great great food.
• G.O.D.: photos / videos don’t capture how impressive this place looks. Drinks fantastic too. Conceptual, yes, but the taste backs that up as well. Should be in my top 5 bars list for Bangkok, with Ku Bar, Rabbit Hole etc.
• Homeburg: Purely taste-wise, this had to be one of the greatest meals of my life. Definitely one of the most technically impressive too. This single location featured one of the best chawanmushi I’ve ever had, the best jerk chicken, the best ginger ale, the best steak, the best french fries etc…unreal. Luckily the desserts were just-okay, or this would have completely redefined what it means to be great.
• Ku Bar: Absolute gem of a space, has to be one of our favourite bars in Bangkok. Insanely cool setup and layout, with fantastically layered and complex cocktails. For instance: Bael-infused whisky with tobacco syrup, xuixian tea and rose water. Or a warm saffron latte longan. Or a super strong Szechuan peppercorn drink that slowly oozes more banana as you sip. S’all good, man.
• Larder: Oh wow, the best breakfast. Perfect thick-cut bacon slices, surprisingly yummy sourdough (surprising cos they slice it real thin), delish blood sausage
• Pad Thai Fai Ta Lu: Why are noodle portions so tiny in Bangkok? This place served some of the best pad thai (and siew yoke) that we’ve had though.
• Rabbit Hole: Great cocktails! Delicious, rich, complex, and just really well thought out. Take, for instance, the London Jesus (longan, saffron, coffee, salted Tonka cream) or the salted lemon butter layers of the Cowboy Pie. Thrilling stuff.
• Saawaan: Refined Southern Thai tasting menu. Loved a lot of it, especially the “toned-down” subtlety of flavours, the highlighting of specific techniques, and the petit fours actually being the strongest flavour punch of the meal.
• Samlor: Silly good. Delicious dishes. Attentive service. A must-visit.
• Some Time Blue: From what we could tell, they only have drip coffee. Both cups were great. Finally a cafe without crazy dark roasts. And they have free-flow water too. My kind of aesthetic, could easily double as a jazz / listening bar. Love the furniture.
• Tax: Love the interiors, the walls, the spacious layout split up into a lot of nooks, without being overly loud and echo-y, and the concept – vinegars from liquors etc. Tried two great cocktails, including a killer oolong with a sudden aftertaste of roasty toasty cashews. Definitely feels more of my place than Asia Today, but both would easily place in my top bars list in KL. And I’d be a regular at Tax.
• Zao Ekkamai: Insanely good Isaan food, one of the highlights of our Bangkok trip. Challenging, excitingly different flavours, all bursting out of some exceptional, layered, and well-priced dishes. Word of caution though: some of the dishes are crazy crazy spicy. Great service, lovely buzz in the dining room(s).

The good:

• 168 Thai Restaurant, inside Chatuchak market. Surprisingly delicious. Only tried 2 dishes, but still. Red curry thing is killer. Spicy sour soup very tasty. Coconut pudding delicious too.
• A Keen House: Iced long black fares much better than the hot, oddly enough. Good music, gorgeous design.
• Aksorn: A 1-star that doesn’t push boundaries too much, but bundles in a tasty meal within a lovely experience. The setting is cozy and inviting, the music top-notch, service pretty good, and the crockery and interiors mesh into a unique statement. Highlights of the food itself was the shrimp paste relish, a red curry with grilled salted beef, and the smoky sugar snap peas. Oh, and the nice walk down to the nice washroom.
• Asia Today: Backdoor Bodega vibes, but really tasty cocktails based around honey. Need to try more to potentially move it further up. The Eastern Honey (with the bee wax mug) was tasty, and the Bitter Have My Moni was even more so, with that punchy, vinegary cherry pickled liquor. Delightful.
• Bar 10010: nice ice cream – with loads of interesting flavours!
• Bask Project: good coffee, lovely space. Lots of cool stuff to look at and buy
• Bun Meat and Cheese: From the mad genius brain of Mr. Homeburg. Doesn’t quite reach those heights, but it’s still very good. Not as earth-shattering as the first time trying Homeburg, but it certainly beats out pretty much all burger joints in Malaysia, even Barbacoa.
• Nai Soon Charoen Nakhon: Delicious duck noodles…less depth than Heng Dee’s broth in Malaysia perhaps, but still hella tasty. Very competitively priced too.
• Okonomi: Japanese breakfast! Lovely little place.
• Rot Rue Dee: like the setup a lot. Well-priced too IMO. Well-cooked fare like the massaman curry with killer smokiness from the chicken. Decent mango sticky rice too.
• Rung Reung (Tung) noodle: yum pork noods, even the dry one.
• Save Our Souls: They say the burgers are good here, but I didn’t try them. The basil rice is solid though, surprisingly enough. Nice selection of craft beers to go alongside.
• Sugarray Apartment: Lovely bar setup (seats 10 at most along the bar counter, a small nook for 3 at the corner). Good drinks that would place it quite high up the KL Bar list, but not quite at the level of those in the Great category.

The decent:

• A Coffee Roaster by Li-bra-ry: Espresso was…almost kinda decent? Flat white tasty. Could potentially be the best out of the cafes in this category.
• Flaneur
• Gatta Cafe inside Siam Square: Slightly better than some other cafes we tried, but not by much.
• Mother Roaster: interesting space, decent coffee
• Nana Coffee Roasters Ari: Lush garden, great rendition of a dirty (though it ran a tad sweet, was still the best we had in BKK), but the default long black was a really dark roast, as per usual in BKK. Stick to milk-based stuff and you’d probably have a better time here.
• OFTR: Like the setup. The drinks are more mediocre – wouldn’t be out of place in KL.
• Prego: We only tried a risotto but it was fantastic. Potential to shoot up this list if all other dishes are as good.
• Shelter coffee
• Tai Soon Bar: A relatively nice space, with 18 beers on tap, opposite the overhyped Jay Fai. Not exactly the setup / feel / clientele / selection of beers that appealed to us though.

The not so good:

• Baan Pueng Chom: Highly recommended, highly disappointing. The star was the stir fried glass noodles with petai – every other dish was poor.
• Brave Roasters: Both long black and the filter served with too much water IMO, ratio feels off.
• Buay Pochana Thonglor: Decent egg noods, decent soup, nice duck leg, meh duck wonton. Overall serviceable but not a must-visit by any measure.
• Chimchim: Terrible coffee, breathtaking interiors. Might actually be worth visiting just for that.
• Conkey’s: The setting is gorgeous. Tranquil back garden. And the spread of bakes sets the heart a-flutter alright. But the pastries themselves are surprisingly not-great. E.g. the donut – love the orange custard filling in the bombolini but the donut itself could be better. Salty fig tart not bad, not great. Sourdough croissant very dense. Fairly mediocre even if it were in KL. Breads do look decent though.
• Holey Artisan: Challah meh. Berliner meh but the butterscotch glaze was quite alright. Disappointing beef baguette – everything cold and so-so, with the baguette being incredibly tough.
• Jasmine Siam Kitchen: Pineapple fried rice with tofu was expensive, and the rice was mushy. Red curry was tasty, despite the tough beef. Factoring in the prices vs setting etc, hard to justify moving this out of this category though.
• Paga: Boy do they love their dark roasts here. We had one alright filter, one standard-order dark-roast nearly-undrinkable long black.
• Red Diamond @ Thonglor: THB 120 for espresso. Fairly meh, all things considered. Strong dark roast like most places here.
• Supanniga: Disappointing. Expensive. At least the service is good. And the kai-yok song does have some tasty, plump crab meat.
• Tropic City: Hmmm.

Naturally, we’ve barely scratched the surface with Bangkok. Some other places we want to check out next time:

• 23 Bar & Gallery (bar in an art space)
• 80/20 (1 star)
• Alonetogether (collab between Sugar Ray and Ku Bar owners) (jazz performances Wed-Sun night. B400 cocktails, happy hour B300 from 6-8pm daily)
• Bamboo Bar (Mandarin Oriental)
• Bar Marco (listening bar)
• Beer Belly (20 taps)
• BKK Social Club (bar)
• Black King Pizzeria
• Bloom Pretzel & Coffee (pretzels and coffee)
• Blue by Alain Ducasse (1 star)
• Brioche from Heaven (cinnamon brioche and caramel, yuzu meringue)
• Cadence by Dan Bark (1 star)
• Canvas (1 star)
• Casa Blue (8 craft beers on tap, good German food)
• Craft Silom (20 taps)
• Doc Club & Pub (indie cinema)
• Dukedon (specializes in grilled, dry-aged Thai catfish. Duke don (B219), pla mor (perch fish) don (B249)) (Fri 12-7pm, Sat 10-7pm, Sun 10-5pm)
• Eight Days a Week Home Bar (only Thai craft beer – prices around B180-300) (5pm-12am daily)
• Gaa (1 of the best restaurants in Thailand) (B 4400++)
• Grow Tea Studio (Uji tea from South Kyoto)
• GTG Cafe (CBD infused drinks and cookies)
• Hair of the Dog (great craft beer spot) (11am-12am daily)
• Homeburg (6 courses, including the burger. B2500++)
• Huus of Bread (Jap-Scandi bakery. Shokupan-donut (shonut)) (10am-4.30pm, closed Mon)
• IGNIV Bangkok (1 star, “global” fine dining, 3 course lunch B 2000, 4 course dinner B 4000)
• Ink & Lion (great coffee) (9am-4pm daily)
• Keaton Tailor
• Kimi sushi bar (semi-outdoors omakase sushi,10 rotating natty wines, 6 seats per seating, B 2100 for 15 courses)
• Koji-delic (Nordic-style cuisine, all based around koji and fermentation. 10 courses B 3,500)
• Koryoriya-te (low-key shochu and sake bar) (6-11pm, closed Sun and Thurs)
• Laab Udon (good Isaan food, off Surasak BTS station) (4pm-3am daily)
• Labyrinth Cafe (great coffee in a basement bunker) (10am-6pm, closed Mon)
• Lahnyai (modern Thai. 14 courses B3,590++)
• Le Du (1 star, elevated Thai) (4 course tasting B 3000, 6 course tasting B 3600)
• Le Normandie (2 stars, Alain Roux (from 3 starred Waterside Inn) arrived in Jan 22. 3 course lunch menu B 3400)
• Liberty Area One @ Ekkamai (great clothing spot)
• Methavalai Sorndaeng (1 star)
• Mash (16 rotating beers, nice setting) (5-11pm, closed Sun)
• Mazzluna (2 stars)
• Mezzaluna (French Japanese fine dining, 7 courses B 6500)
• Middle Bar (good cocktails, B400)
• Mihara Tofuten (Gaggan partnering with someone from Fukuoka. Fine dining dedicated to tofu from Kyushu. 12 courses B 4900)
• Ministry of Crab (branch of Sri Lanka’s best restaurant. B 1,800 for 800g medium sized crab)
• Mod Kaew Wine Bar (ex-somm of Gaggan. No wine list. B690 for a 3 wine flight. Or get a bottle)
• Nahim Cafe x Handcraft 
• Nahm (1 star)
• Nine Pastry (challah, Jerusalem bagel etc) (8am-5pm, closed Wed)
• Paste (1 star)(modern progressive Thai, 1 star) (B 4300 for tasting menu, can get ala carte for around B1,000 per dish) (12-2pm, 6-11pm daily)
• Pijiu (Chinese beer bar)
• Pizza Massilia (great pizza)
• Potong (Thai-Chinese fine dining, 20 courses B 4,500)
• R u u classic cocktails (B300-400 cocktails, chill spot)
• R-Haan (2 stars)
• Rue De Mansri (good croissant, decent coffee, nice place)
• Saep Sudjai (good Isaan dishes, especially the pork liver with toasted rice)
• Samrub Samrub Thai (private dining, some of the best food in Thailand. B 4,500 for tasting menu) 
• Saneh Jaan (1 star, old school Thai dishes)
• Savelberg (1 star, French cuisine with touch of Dutch influence) (B 4750)
• Shuu Shuu (umeshu bar)
• Siwilai Sound Club (cocktail and jazz bar) (6pm-1am, closed Mon)
• Smalls (jazz bar)
• Soei (10.30am-9.30pm, closed Sat) (fried mackerel cheeks – may need to reserve, Thai shrimp ceviche, pla goong, soft shell crab in curry powder) (can end up queueing for 1-2 hours)
• Som Tam Sida (family run Isaan restaurant)
• Somtum Der (Isaan food)
• Sorn (2 stars)
• Soufflé and me (souffle) (11am-10pm daily)
• Sra Bua (1 star)
• Sunray (bright, pastely and airy cocktail bar. Drinks B300) (6pm-12am daily)
• Table 38 (great food, need to book way in advance next time) (5-9.30pm, closed Mon)
• Tapas Music Bar (modern tapas)
• Teens of Thailand (cocktail bar, gin-focused)
• Thaipioka (cocktails influenced by Thai flavours, B350) (7pm-2am daily)
• The Jam Factory (crafts, stores)
• The Rose Natural Wine Bar (small space, about 14 bottles usually. B350++ per glass, B1,600 upwards per bottle)
• The White House (great food and cocktails)
• Timo & Tintin (good coffee, gallery space)
• To More (jazz bar, nice cocktails)
• Varen (good coffee)
• Vesper (bar)
• Walden Home Cafe (good coffee, Parisian interiors)
• Wattanapanich (beef and goat soup noodles) (9am-7pm daily)

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Last update: 18 Sep 2022 (no photos yet, for the most part!)

Must-go:

1. Gekko: #cocktails Exeunt Bar Shake, enter Gekko. That dastardly bartender has moved to a nice new nook, with more convenient dining options all around – although we miss the gorgeous bar counter at Bar Shake. Anyway, they have bar bites here. The smoked stuff are a must-try, especially the stunning smoked cream cheese. And, oh yeah, drinks. All the cocktails are top-tier stuff. Sublime, legendary, mangosteen saketini (more mangosteen-y than mangosteen), the clear Bloody Mary, experimental stuff like bak-kut-teh-whisky…we could go on and on. Passionfruit with Tumugi? Mango or pear with rum? Banana bourbon? Spicy screwdriver? Everything slaps. And like we said before, once you down the route of proper fresh fruit cocktails, it’s hard to turn back. Places like Gekko and Bar Ishinohana in Tokyo just do it so, so well.
2. Ver
3. 61 Monarchy: #whisky So I’ve had cocktails here before. I’ve had the Douglas Laing whisky highballs (great value) too. But really, your best bet is to ignore all that and come for the whisk(e)y alone. Dizzying selection available, highly informative and friendly staff, and one of the best atmospheres IMO. Much prefer Monarchy to Whisky Bar. Oh, and yeah, a good range of flights too (although as of July 2020, it seems that may be temporarily off the menu?)! What a place.
4. Jann: #cocktails Painfully underrated. Love almost all their cocktails here. Killer happy hour prices (RM 40 for 2 cocktails from the happy hour menu) and generally solid drinks
5. Reka bar: #cocktails The shiny new place everyone’s screaming about. Love the concept of the menu and love a couple of the drinks. Good gems peppered here and there throughout. Highlights include the dusun (tuak and tempoyak further fermented with tequila), Drink Your Toast (lovely warm cocktail, comforting and creamy, and reminiscent of a certain drink at Jann), and the stunning Cloud and Clear (one of the standout drinks). Expecting great things from this place.
6. Canvass: #cocktails Not a bar, not really. Unless you sit at the bar counter and don’t eat, I guess? Great drinks though, with a great focus on sustainability and zero-waste. Fair warning, the drinks aren’t ALWAYS great, since they vary a lot from each visit (understand their concept and how they operate, and this makes sense). But when they hit their peak, boy almighty are these special.
7. Stretch: #cocktails Yet again, not a bar. Great food, great pizzas, great cocktails though.
8. Monster & Beer: #beer Catapulting its way up the list and into my heart comes Monster & Beer – a bright beer bar with lots of quirky, great artwork everywhere. When’s the merch coming? This stuff is great. As is the food – courtesy of the Shokudo peeps, with almost every item on the M&B menu a real hit (18 Sep 22 update: the menu has undergone some changes, as has the kitchen staff (presumably), the food really isn’t as good anymore). Genuinely surprised by the food the first time I visited and have been consistently satiated ever since (except for one visit where the quality dipped a bit). Beer-wise, they usually have a decent selection too. Distribution license for Kaiju etc. Great, great happy hour prices!
9. Hyde: #cocktails I mean I enjoy the fact that by default, their cocktails aren’t sickly sweet. But they do also put some thought into the drinks. One of the better bars around.
10. Ales & Lagers: #beer Let’s face it, if the old Great Beer Bar was still around (great lamb bowls, great stuffed curry in chicken wings, best intestines in town, good yakitori, great craft beer, great people), it would be number one on the list. But GBB has moved on, and so have we. And as it turns out, we’ve moved back to Ales & Lagers, which stocks lots of craft beers, usually has 3 options on tap (typically 2 from Modern Madness!) is super comfortable, has great air-conditioning, a nice communal table and breakaway seats, and is tucked away into a print shop in Publika. You could get dinner at Senya beforehand, it’s right underneath. Or you can get the Texas BBQ place to send food over. Ales & Lagers is the sort of casual craft beer bar we wish were everywhere in the city.
11. Gavel: #beer Now that they have craft beer on tap (typically 3 on rotation, with stuff from Rogue and Beerfarm) to supplement their fridge of craft beers (a growing selection, at that) and wine selection, I think it’s worth adding Gavel to the list. The food has always been very good (and painfully underrated). Now the drinks are too. And RM 28-30 or so for craft beer on tap is pretty decent, especially when you’re looking at the higher ABV pulls. One of my favorite spots in the city.
12. Happy Stan: #cocktails Karl’s here now. Personally never been a fan of coffee cocktails, so I avoid that and get the others. Can always ask him to whip up something special too. Generally solid.
13. Botak Liquor Bar: #cocktails Up and down stuff. Great the first 3 visits, disappointing in August 2019 (horrendous, horrifically spicy chili chocolate cocktail and a very sweet starfruit curry drink), promising in early 2020 (slightly too sweet still), and mixed in 2021 (very impressive during a few visits, not-so for other visits for diff drinks)
14. Rakh
15. Small Shifting Space: #wine would be higher up if they had more wines by the glass. But oof what a gorgeous small space. Love the wine bar concept, with rotating food programmes.
16. School of Animals: #beer Same team, same vibe as Monster and Beer, but in a smaller place, transplanted to KL. Food isn’t anywhere as good, and selection very slightly more limited.
17. The Chow Kit: [24 Nov ’21 update: the new cocktails by Bar Mizukami are very disappointing, may potentially drop further after another revisit to test] Surprise, surprise. Had a bunch of cocktails on 2 separate visits, and enjoyed all of them. Go and try! Good food too.

Can-go:

1. Trigona : You know what, it’s not too bad. Some good drinks, some mediocre drinks. Food is very extravagantly priced. The bar area looks stunning. The views from the windows are pretty sweet too. Great vibes push this bar up the list. Also they won KL Best Bar 2019 – I mean, yeah, pointless insider circlejerk award but still!
2. Three x Co : Need to revisit to rejig the memory but vaguely recall drinks being pretty decent. Also, whisk(e)y by the shot was very decently priced, which shoots it up the list. Nice place, tucked away inside BSC. Relatively spacious compared to some other bars, and has a nice atmosphere.
3. Skullduggery : Some cocktails here were actually pretty good. Might be worth giving them a heads up on your preferred sweetness level though, like most places. And it’s quite nice inside, though it gets very packed. Due for a revisit to assess more of the menu.
4. Frank’s: tried a couple of drinks. Probably need a revisit to reassess, but nothing too impressive.
5. Whisky Bar : Dislike the atmosphere and the steep, steep prices, but the whisky selection is admittedly great. If money is not a concern, this would likely be higher up in your personal list. Also, you can have dinner at Malaysia’s best yakitori spot before walking down the hill to Whisky Bar.
6. Coley : The new place sure is pretty, but the bar seats are annoyingly high, and it tends to get annoyingly crowded. The cocktails are very one-note too. Most are fun on the first try, but you’d rarely come across any that you’d want to repeatedly order. Although they do have some great guest bartenders over sometimes! Like Old Man HK.
7. Taps Beer Bar : Good craft beer selection that’ll destroy your wallet. Doesn’t quite have the same feel as GBB of old, or even the current Ales & Lagers. Not sure what it is, but the whole atmosphere of the place isn’t great. And might be best to avoid the food, pretty bad. Good bands though!
8. Soma : essentially placing this bar based solely on one drink – the peanut butter drink, because it was the only one we had from the actual menu. We also had the 3 omakase drinks for RM 100 which all ended up pretty mediocre/bad. We do need to revisit to assess the other drinks. But the peanut butter was nice!
9. Nomi Tomo : Go if you’re into sake. Great vibes.
10. 13th Suzuki Shoten : Lovely sake bar inside Publika. Not to be confused with the 13th Suzuki Hanten, which is in Lorong Yap Kwan Seng, is run by the same owner, and serves Szechuan food by a Japanese chef. This sake bar does some good tidbits too, I’m told. Lovely setting inside too.
11. PS 150 : You used to be alright, what happened? We visited before they officially had the front entrance and raved about the place. Quality gradually, then rapidly, slid downhill, especially after Angel pretty much stopped directly bartending there. Tried the place again on 17 August. Lychee no. 3 is nowhere what it used to be. Aggressively sickly sweet. Also, the music is largely trash now (remember the good old times when people would ask for the playlist links?), and played at annoyingly loud volumes. It’s always packed though, especially with travelers and expats, so we suppose they’re doing well.

If you’ve nowhere else to go:

1. Rentak Bar: Dope vibes. Hidden away on top of Cafe ETC. Great when there’s a guest DJ in the house, especially if they play jazz or retro Jap-pop. The drinks are still being tweaked at the moment – 1 or 2 were too sweet. Feel of the place helps make up for it, somewhat.
2. Bar Moku: #cocktails Sharp improvement on the second visit. Well worth a visit. (18 Sep ’22 update: has since plummeted drastically)
3. Pahit : Not a huge gin fan, so maybe that was why I wasn’t overly impressed by the cocktails at Pahit. Having said that, they had a pop-up at Tiffin Food Court and the cocomelon (gin, honeydew, evaporated milk, sago inside a coconut) was delicious.
4. Powerplant : Yes, really. They have somewhat decent pours of Guinness, depending on the outlet. Plus satisfying fried chicken. Nothing mindblowing, but it’s better than Kyochon in our estimation
5. Uncle Don : Never thought much of the food. But hey, relatively affordable Guinness
6. Locker & Loft : cheap whisky by the shot, which is good. Cocktails bit better than Pawn Room
7. Red Chamber : Some drinks are actually pretty interesting, but most are too syrupy sweet.
8. Sebastian’s Gastro Bar : [24 Nov ’21: RIP old Sebastians. No more Guinness. Times have changed a lot] Forgive the odd choice and the nostalgia-lenses, but I’ve such good memories of Sebastian’s. The food was great. The alcohol – do they even have cocktails? Doubtful. And even if they do, it’s anyone’s guess how good they are. Just get a Guinness there. We had good pours of Guinness. Just Guinness and great food, and you’re likely to have a better experience than drinking concentrated sugar water in most cocktail bars in the city. Dingy neighborhood-bar feel, by the way.
9. Pawn Room : Meh cocktails across the board, but whisky selection a bit better (and more expensive) than Locker & Loft
10. Attic Bar : Only saving grace is the drinks are pretty cheap
11. Berlin : There is purportedly alcohol in the cocktails, so that’s one thing going for them. But the place doesn’t look too awful, I guess
12. Mantra Bar : just wanted to point out that everything was bad when I tried it but I only tried it once. On the list because the place is relatively nice
13. Bar Atas : it’s popular
14. Kenshin: it’s hidden

On Foodgae’s To-Try List:

• Coppersmith
• Junglebird
• Rum Bar
• Folio
• Cabinet

RIP:

Omakase + Appreciate : Farewell to the OG hidden bar, highly underappreciated, with some of the best drinks around. Amazingly talented and inventive bartenders – the standard routine here was to give them some tasting notes / flavors, and leave with a challenged, expanded, and often pleasured palate. There were at the forefront of the Malaysian cocktail scene IMO and it’s painful to see them go. Karl is at Happy Stan though, so visit him there. I’ll leave this entry here for memories.

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