The 33rd-floor Peruvian-Japanese rooftop above Sukhumvit Soi 11, with bird cages on the ceiling and a Nikkei kitchen at the back.
Above Eleven sits on the 33rd floor of Fraser Suites Sukhumvit on Soi 11, the strip of Sukhumvit known for Apoteka, Levels, Q&A and the late-night-out infrastructure of central Bangkok. The bar opened in 2009 under designer Ashwin Thapatiwong, who put oversized bird cages on the ceiling and a long open-air deck around a Peruvian-Japanese (Nikkei) kitchen. Time Out Bangkok's rooftop guide describes it as "one of the few Sukhumvit rooftops where the food is genuinely worth the trip", which is the right frame, it is a kitchen with a bar, not the other way around. The address, the 33rd-floor location and the daily 17:00–02:00 schedule are all confirmed on the Above Eleven official site.
The right visitor wants a Pisco sour at sunset, a tiradito or ceviche to share, and a slow rotation through three Nikkei plates before the DJ steps up at 22:00. The wrong visitor wants a quiet drink, the music is loud after 21:30, or a Western-style cocktail menu, since the strength here is the Peruvian programme.
The deck wraps around an open-air lounge with hanging bird-cage seating booths, low banquettes, and the Nikkei kitchen and Pisco bar as the central island. Sukhumvit traffic noise is almost completely cut by the 33rd-floor height; what carries up is the DJ booth at the south end of the deck. BK Magazine's profile flags the bird-cage seats as "the most-photographed corner of any Bangkok rooftop except Sky Bar", book them at booking time, they do not get released to walk-ins.
The signature cocktail list is built around Pisco, the house Pisco Sour (390 THB), the Chilcano (Pisco, ginger ale, lime) and a smoked Pisco Old Fashioned. The Negroni and Old Fashioned are competent but the Pisco list is the reason to come; r/Bangkok's recurring rooftop thread consistently flags Above Eleven as "the only Sukhumvit rooftop with a serious Pisco programme". Pair a round of tiradito with the Pisco Sour; the kitchen and the bar are designed to land together.
Skip the wine-by-the-glass, the markup is steep and the list is short. The Asahi and Singha drafts at 220 THB are the better cheap-round play if you are committing to a long night. For groups, the sharing pitchers (Pisco Punch for four, ~2,200 THB) are the value tier on the menu.
Until 20:00 the deck reads as hotel guests and a date-night Bangkok crowd taking sunset photos. From 21:30 the DJ programme starts (Latin house and tropical electronic, per the bar's own playlist), and the room shifts to the Sukhumvit Soi 11 expat-and-tourist set that is doing the strip, Apoteka, Q&A, Levels, with Above Eleven as the opening salvo. Time Out Bangkok's nightlife guide notes the venue as "the sit-down rooftop you start at before Soi 11 properly gets going". Crowd skews 28–40, smart casual, more international than local.