Eat Me has occupied the same Soi Phiphat 2 address since 1998, which makes it older than every other cocktail bar on this site's Bangkok list. The room runs a small but serious drinks programme alongside a contemporary art rotation and one of the city's longest-recommended kitchens. Time Out Bangkok has listed Eat Me in its annual top-ten cocktail bars 12 years out of the last 15. It has held a place on the Asia's 50 Best Restaurants extended list seven times.
This is the bar to recommend to a Bangkok visitor who is tired of rooftops and wants a serious sit-down. It is not the loudest room and it is not the cheapest. It is the room that defended Bangkok's cocktail reputation for a decade before BKK Social Club, Vesper or Mahaniyom existed, and it still rewards a careful drinker. Regulars on the r/Bangkok cocktail thread consistently flag it as the city's most-recommended choice for a quiet conversation over good drinks.
Eat Me takes bookings via its own site or by phone. Walk-ins are accepted upstairs at the bar until 9pm.
The ground floor is the dining room, lit warmly, walls hung with whatever the H Gallery has decided to lend that quarter. The upstairs bar is the better seat for a drinks-only visit: ten stools at the bar, four small tables, and a balcony that looks back over the soi. The garden patio on the corner is the move on cool-season evenings (November to February); it seats 20 and books out by 7pm. The Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2024 write-up called the upstairs room "the most-recommended quiet bar within ten minutes of Silom".
Skip the after-dinner sweet drinks. The dessert wine list is the better post-dinner move; ask the sommelier.
The crowd at Eat Me is the most steady in Bangkok. Expats and long-term residents who book the same corner table every month, visiting cocktail tourists who want the long-running serious option, and a quiet flow of Bangkok hospitality staff on industry nights (Sunday and Monday). Per Time Out Bangkok, the room never tips over into loud; it operates at conversation volume all night. Tables turn at a relaxed pace and nobody is rushed.