Sukhumvit and the Parks: 17 Places to Ride To

Australian-style coffee in a quiet Phra Khanong soi. It focuses more on good coffee than spectacle, with imported Australian beans alongside Thai options.

Good coffee without needing to be Instagram-famous. A recent Bangkok coffee-community thread specifically lists ANONYMOUS among its favorite less-popular specialty spots.

A tiny, quiet coffee world hidden in a Sukhumvit soi. Built around coffee + books + magazines + print culture, while roasting carefully in-house.

For when coffee itself is the reason for the trip. PAGA is a serious micro-roaster with single-origin beans and a huge range of brewing options.

Benjakitti Forest Park - modern city sunset.

One of the places where you can see Bangkok feeding itself - meat, fish, vegetables, herbs, restaurants buying ingredients. Go early morning. Bangkok as a working city, not a tourist city.

Take fried rice and put an enormous amount of real crab meat into it. Their signature Khao Phat Khot Poo is fried rice loaded with large chunks of crab from Surat Thani - crab in essentially every bite.

The rustic interior feels like an old Bangkok food room - a date-night-but-still-Thai option.

Interesting precisely because it is open when other places aren't - good late-night Bangkok food.

A former three-storey townhouse redesigned as a cafe while keeping the old structure, with a glass-house section inserted into the building. Nordic minimalism meets Japanese wabi-sabi.

Spicy tom yum noodles in Phra Khanong, with giant fried pork wontons and big boiled dumplings. Ridden to and checked in - it earns the detour east.