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Recommendations:

Bars & Restaurants:

• Cheap Charlie's

Sukhumvit Soi 11, 200 meters down on left hand side.

Outdoors street/pavement bar. As it's name suggests - serves drinks at very reasonable prices. Popular with expats

• Soi 8

Sukhumvit Soi 8, 300 meters down on left hand-side

Pub-type bar and restaurant

• Barbican 

Soi Thaniya, Silom area - Tel 02 2343590

Trendy afterwork-type bar

• Cabbages and condoms (great for visitors) 

Sukhumvit Soi 12 - 400meters down on right hand side

Thai food - seating indoors and out.

• "Gazebo"

On Sukumvit Road right beside entrance to soi 1.

Live music, great ambience and a nice breeze due to its open-air rooftop location

• "Café De Lao"

Behind the Holiday Inn Silom,

Great food and service at a great
price. Simon

• Hazara,

(Tel: 02 713 6048) evenings only

Indian Restaurant - within The Face Bar, Sukhumvit Soi 38 (hundred meters down on left hand side - gorgeous old teakwood thai-style house)

• L’Opera Ristorante - Italian food

Sukhumvit 39 - Tel: 02 258 5606

Doesn't look like much from the outside but once inside, it's the perfect venue for a romantic dinner with fantastic food and wine. No kids allowed in this place, though there is a very good authentic pizza restaurant right next door (just passed the also very excellent wine bar!)  Becky

• Tapas Bar

In Soi 11 (Sukhumvit) - Abbie
02 6512947

Just behind Cheap Charlies (see above)

• Le Normandie

02 659 9000

French Restaurant within the Oriental Hotel

• Limoncello

02 651 0707 ,

Sukhumvit Soi 11, Reservations advised - Italian Food. Thai-style house.

• Guistos

02 258 4321

Sukhumvit Soi 23 - Sarah

Most hotels offer a Sunday Brunch option - buffet styel eat all you can eat for a set price.

• Trader Vic's

Good value if you intend on drinking lots of alcohol! Take the free shuttle boat from the pier next to Sathorn Taksin pier beneath Taksin Bridge (connection here for skytrain).

Ann

• Rossano's

Sukhumvit Soi 21 (Asoke) Soi 3  (also accessible from Soi 19)

After 30 years Gennari Rossano sold his well-loved L’Opera and planned to retire to his home in Bang Saray, three years later however he found he was not quite yet ready to stay at home.

Rossano returned to Bangkok and opened a new restaurant, a lovely little house close to the junction where Sukhumvit Soi 19 veers to the right to meet Soi Asoke.

Rossano says he’s designed it to have a look and ambience that’s as different from L’Opera as possible.

 Great food, a lovely atmosphere and best of all some of his brilliant staff from L'Opera are there with him! Check it out on www.italianrestaurantbkk.com

Sue