24/09/2026
The World’s 50 Best Bars 51–100 list dropped yesterday, and three Bangkok bars made it. And, conveniently for us, we already love all three. 🥂
You know from our frankly excessive coverage of Asia’s 50 Best Bars what these places do, what they drink like, and why they’re good. They’re also Nightify partners, so we’re not going to bore you with the same descriptions again. You can find plenty of that on our website and in our past posts.
Instead, here’s why the Nightify team personally loves them:
📍 G.O.D Bkk — No. 85. New entry! First of all, extremely deserved. If you haven’t noticed, everyone at Nightify is kind of a degenerate in some small way, so we enjoy getting drunk inside a bar that looks like a very sexy corrupted church. Sinning in church is always arousing. Speaking of arousing, certain unnamed members of our team are also quite fond of founder Niks Anuman’s rugged handsomeness. We’re so lucky we get to work with him from time to time. He’d never guess the member(s) though.
📍 Opm.bkk — No. 97. This one occupies the upper floors of the 120-year-old Chinatown shophouse that houses Restaurant.Potong, in spaces where o***m was once traded and smoked. As nightlife fiends, we are not exactly unfamiliar with being in rooms where... things have happened. Very much our style. We also love ending up here after getting drunk from the wine pairing downstairs.
📍 Vesper — No. 99. In the words of our founder, you can never really go wrong with Vesper. It’s been around since like 2014, which in Bangkok cocktail-bar years makes it practically an ancient monument, and it still makes some of the best classics in the city. There is also a very handsome bartender here. Our founder knows him well, but the rest of us mostly admire respectfully from a distance. So his identity is safe for now.
Bangkok bang, screaming “เก่งมาก” with my gang. 🇹🇭
The Top 50 will be revealed on October 7 in Milan. We already know which Thai names we’ll be watching for. What we don’t know is where in the world they’ll land.
We’re rooting for Thailand and Asia. We’ll be back with the results, some thoughts, and perhaps further notes on attractive bartenders.