Design and Garden Cafes

You enter through a flower shop and then discover a multi-floor old building absolutely swallowed by flowers, plants, vintage furniture, old lamps and slightly chaotic decorations.

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.

Inside an old Song Wat shophouse: heritage architecture, stained glass, vintage furniture and Thai-inspired desserts.

A 101-year-old Chinese-Thai coffee shop. Four generations in, the family redesigned it while preserving the character: jade-green tiles, marble tables, old-school Chinatown atmosphere.

Inside a mid-century government house. Rather than demolishing the character, the designers kept elements of the original residence, including a strange ladder staircase, and turned it into a modern matcha space.

Hidden down a small lane and much closer to entering a private tropical garden than a restaurant. Mature planting, old-house atmosphere, very quiet.

Farm-like rather than polished garden cafe: greenery, open space and an agricultural atmosphere. Outside central Bangkok, but well inside the metropolitan exploration.

More an art and craft house surrounded by greenery than a conventional coffee shop, and Khlong San lets you combine it with the older Thonburi neighbourhood.

Not just a pretty green cafe: a garden, Thai food and a cooking-school environment. Combines well with Wat Sam Phraya and the little lanes around it.

Small and relatively unknown. The name sounds generic, but the location is what caught our attention: tucked into the Bang Khae side of Bangkok rather than the usual cafe districts.