Food & Drink

A glittering guide to the Silom District, plus dos and don’ts on buying bling.

Where impossibly lush terroir offers feasts for the table and the eyes.

From the chefs behind bo.lan, the new Err pairs Thai drinking food with natural wine.

Are you looking for a resort whose eco-cred encompasses all you eat?

The Michelin drumbeat is getting louder on the island, so we suggest you book these outstanding new spots while you still can.

Stylish new private-villa hotel Siri Sala is inviting top locally minded restaurants across Asia to Bangkok to cook and stay.

It’s a global smorgasbord at our fave new fine-diners.

Isn’t everything better when you’re gazing at the ocean?

Geranium in Copenhagen tops the list. But can you guess who in Asia made it into World’s 50 Best list 2022?

The three-Michelin-starred chef has restaurants all over the map, including, Thailand, China and a new one in Singapore.

Sweet dreams are made of this.

You always knew Bangkok was the best, didn’t you?

The region is open, with a world of new restaurants to try this summer 2022.

If you weren’t in Bangkok this week, you missed a really great party.

If you think that Phuket is just for beaches, think again.

New restaurant, better rooms, brighter energy. Here’s what a visit is like today.

Chefs met to celebrate their peers at the first in-person Awards in Asia since 2019. T+L was there live in Bangkok.

Thai cooking classes, heirloom produce, great coffee, closed-loop and zero-waste.

Awesome accommodations aside, Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok is the perfect spot to wine, dine and unwind.

Potong is a new progressive Thai Chinese restaurant by celebrity Chef Pam, topped by one of the coolest new bars in Bangkok.

We review zero-waste Jampa, which seems aiming for Michelin, like its starred sister restaurant Pru.

T+L is hosting a Women’s Day wine tasting via Zoom on March 8.

Tempt your tummy with these treats fit for a Tiger.

London leads the way worldwide but can you guess what the most-lauded breakfasts in Asia are?

The start of the year is hard. But cocktails are fun!

Whether you can travel to a distant isle or just across town, these roarsome Lunar New Year escapes will help you channel your inner tiger like the superstar you are.

Plant-based fine dining is finally getting the creativity and acclaim it deserves.

The ultimate T+L guide to all the best hotels, resorts, restaurants and bars that have opened since lockdown 1.0.

Once you read about the simple genius of ecoSPIRITS, you’ll demand your favorite bartender green up your next drink.

Chef Akira Back of Seoul’s Michelin-starred Dosa has a slew of modern Japanese restaurants around the world.

The queen of Bangkok street food let T+L exclusively into her kitchen. Watch and drool.

It’s white-truffle season! Here are some of the best places to indulge in Asia.

Noma’s second iteration takes the crown and Asia claims 8 slots.

In advance of World’s 50 Best 2021, we asked some of Asia’s 50 Best chefs to share their favorite foods.

From the depths of the sea to the top of the world: come for the food, stay for the unbeatable views.

Bangkok’s favorite bakery shares its CookieClimax secrets in honor of Chocolate-Chip Cookie Day.

The first Champions of Change awardees include Deepanker Khosla of Bangkok’s Haoma.

Street-food stalls, mom-and-pop shops, plant-based menus and community activists. We can’t eat in fancy restaurants every night—and this new list proves why we don’t want to, either.

Picture it: you’ll finish that sweaty workout with a satisfying slug of… bug juice?

These bars reduce, reuse and recycle, plus replant the rainforest on the path to delicious drinks. Here are a few lessons in eco-mixology, complete with climate-conscious cocktail recipes.

If home is where the heart is, these restaurants around our region really set ours aflutter. Here are 7 of our favorite fine-dining spots that deliver Valentine’s Day to your door.

In the run-up to Lunar New Year, we fete everyone’s favorite Chinese imperial dish. These are the tastiest Peking ducks in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok.

Front Room in Waldorf Astoria Bangkok has reopened with comfort classics that’ll warm your soul.

Hotels are bringing restaurant service and bar vibes into your suite. So you can drink, social-distance and forget about the dishes.

We’re here to help you nurse that hangover.

A new restorative IV-drip bar in the middle of an actual bar means you’ll never have to fear that boozy brunch again.

From high tea to champagne toasts, this grande dame knows how to celebrate in style.

Khao soi and Royal Enfields combine for the perfect breath-of-fresh-air roadtrip in northern Thailand.

French, Italian, Spanish and Thai. The five hardest reservations to get in Thailand today vary in all ways but their utter deliciousness.

Across Southeast Asia time-capsule cafés and bars provide a glimpse of—and a reassuring anchor to—neighborhood diners in simpler times.

Everyone knows gin-and-tonic is good for you. But have you ever considered what a truly global invention it is?

Grow your own veggies, cuddle ducklings and eat fresh from the earth at a new farm-to-table restaurant by five-star resort Trisara in Phuket.

A more Earth- and body-friendly version of the heaven-sent combo you love.

This stylish steak mecca brings laid-back Brooklyn vibes to Bangkok’s CBD.

When in doubt, donut it out.

With malls and bars closed during lockdown, we deepened our love for local eating in Bangkok.

“It’s like butter.”

Each dish on their transportive tasting menu is not only stick-to-your-bones good, but also uses ingredients from their urban garden and upcountry farm.

Classic Thai comfort food from one of the country’s most beloved Michelin-starred chefs, Thitid “Ton” Tassanakajohn

Chef DK of Haoma is serving thousands of meals a days to jobless people and families in Bangkok.

Quarantining has the T+L staff daydreaming of many things (social interaction?) but especially these dishes.

At the new Mövenpick BDSM Wellness Resort, healing starts with nutritious, delicious meals at Khum Hom and Tamarind.

Elegant Thai food with serious flavor at COMO Yamu Point.

T+L’s monthly selection of trip-worthy places, experiences and events.

Rojak gin? Fancy Thai rum? Bring these bottles home instead of the elephant print pants.

Whether you need a full evening’s fantastic agenda or a just few special hours, Bull & Bear steakhouse, The Loft and The Champagne Bar shine bright like three diamonds above Bangkok.

At Khum Hom, the restaurant at the Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort, the chef is radically rethinking the cuisine.

From a funky wine spot in Hong Kong to a bar inspired by Indian heritage in Singapore, these are the new spots where you’ll probably find us drinking these days.

The long waiting lists at these restaurants are worth the wait.

If you’re craving Italian aperitivo with Sunday-session sharing plates, the new eatery from prolific Bangkok restaurant group Foodie Collection is the place to settle in.

The maestro who’d been running the line at Nahm for years, chef Prin Polsuk, has been teasing our palates with pop-ups of his deeply researched, forgotten Thai-cookbook recipes. Now he’s settled into his own space, a tiny chef’s-table, open-kitchen restaurant hidden within like-minded locavore 100 Mahaseth.

With a mini amphitheater in the middle of the city, the team behind award-winning Rabbit Hole has turned the speakeasy trend on its head— or just taken it back a century, to the Jazz Age.

Don’t let the awesome wallpaper fool you. On the wide-ranging menu at the city’s new Instagram darling, the tastes more than match up to the aesthetics.

Finally, a place that transitions seamlessly from day to eve. The clubby Siri House invites you in from breakfast right through midnight.

Sky-high, beachfront and boutique luxe hotels plus inventive and Instagrammable eateries and bars.

Bangkok’s newest sky-high venue has just opened for lunch on the 76th floor of the Kingpower MahaNakhon building.

Kebabs take center stage, with melt-in-your-mouth meats, veggies and paneer served in a bright, modern setting. Eat all you can at their smart Sunday brunch, or come at night to try their India-inspired cocktails, crafted to complement the flavors of the tandoor.

An ambitious new restaurant boasts Bangkok’s first Michelin three-starred chef on the floor—and up in the clouds.

It’s famous for coconut curries and burning spice, but southern Thai food goes beyond the massaman and khanom jeen classics. From Chumphon down to Songkhla, we try six other specialties with influences from Chinese migrants to neighboring Malaysia.

We’re just going to come right out and say it: Bangkok’s dining scene has never been more delicious or compelling than it is right now.

For this fresh Thai fare with a Danish accent, little is lost in translation.

This über-sustainable nose-to-tail proves just how many tasty ways you can skin a cow.

Two princes fulfill their culinary destiny with a hipper-than-thou, hotter-than-many, hill-country restaurant that gives old Laotian and Northern Thai recipes a decidedly modern update.

Take a hearty trip through Thailand via a tasting menu brimming with delicious dishes we’d like to see a la carte. (The duo of female chefs at the helm is a fab added bonus.)

Delicately engineered plates starring local, seasonal produce are dreamed up by a celebrity chef who traffics less in “twists” than whiffs—call it, the edge of Thai.

Following the trail of history to old village recipes from soldiers and subsistence farmers made these southern boys an instant hit.

With a fresh revamp and a reorientation to tasting menus, one of the city’s secret faves is stepping out of the shadows.

Michelin Guide inspectors trawled the city for its best fine dining, but they also recognized 35 Bib Gourmands—good value, consistently quality meals. Several holes-in-the-wall made the list, teeing up a great primer on Bangkok street food. Here are five of our favorites.

The Southeast Asian City of Angels definitely looks its best from high up in the sky. Soak in the stellar panoramas from these stylish watering holes.

Whether they’re served in a bar, a humble street restaurant or a Michelin-worthy gastronomic temple, some specialties are worth seeking out no matter where in the world they may be.