Bar Us

Bar Us is the rare concept bar where the idea and the pour stay in balance. The room looks like a laboratory and drinks like a tasting menu, yet nothing feels like stunt for its own sake: pad Thai arrives as tamarind and leek depth, beef and onion reads as a clear, savoury main, and the team explains each step without lecturing. Fourteen seats keep service personal, the black interior focuses attention on the glass, and the sustainability work (whole fruit use, gas-free kitchen, farm partnerships) shows up in flavour rather than signage. If you want one Bangkok bar that rewires how you think about cocktails, this is it.

Find the glass door opposite the security kiosk on Soi Sukhumvit 26 and step into a room where walls, ceiling, and tables are black and bartenders in white lab coats work under spotlights. Shelves hold jars of dried herbs, spices, and ferments, and roughly fourteen seats split between the counter and small tables. The menu is divided into Starter, Main, After, and All Night, but you choose your own path: begin with something bright, dive straight into savoury mains, or close on a sweet After serve. The crowd skews industry and serious drinkers who have moved past dessert cocktails, and the team switches easily between English and Thai.

Start in Main if you want the house identity: Pad Thai rebuilds leek distillate, tamarind, chili oil, and coconut into the city's most famous dish in a glass. Beef + Onion is a clear, intensely savoury serve that tastes uncannily like the namesake pairing, and Guava Leaf + Green Chili + Kaffir Lime pushes Thai aromatics into Botanist gin. For something softer, Thai Tea Punch clarifies milk into a rich, nostalgic After serve with house fudge from leftover curds. The Banana Daiquiri uses whole fruit (juice, peel syrup, distillate, and banana cake on the side), and All Night holds modernised classics if you want a simpler second round.

Bar Us sits at 61/37 on Soi Sukhumvit 26 in Khlong Toei, a short walk from BTS Phrom Phong. It opens Sunday to Thursday from 18:00 to 00:00 and Friday to Saturday from 18:00 to 01:00. Reserve the 18:00 or 20:00 seating slots through us-bar.com, though walk-ins are welcome all night when seats allow. The bar holds seats for ten minutes after your booking time, so plan for Bangkok traffic. Cocktails start at 480 THB before VAT and service. No strict dress code, but polite casual dress fits the room.

Taln and Aum came from interior design and hostel hospitality before opening Bar Us, and the bar treats drinks like spatial storytelling: every technique serves a flavour arc. Deconstruction, distillation, brining, fermentation, and carbonation turn fish sauce, nam prik, beef jerky, and tropical fruit into layered serves that read as food before they read as gimmick. Sustainability is built into the method: a pesticide-free farm in Nakhon Ratchasima supplies seasonal produce, whole ingredients become syrups and ferments rather than waste, frozen fruit replaces ice where possible, and the venue runs without gas. Staff wear naturally dyed cotton by Thai designer Longgoy, and drinks rest on woven sedge grass coasters from local makers.

Bar Us held No.7 on our 2026 Asia ranking at the ceremony in Macau on 28 July 2026, retaining the position it reached in 2025 while adding the Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award for one of the region's most rigorous low-waste drinks programmes. It also placed No.15 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025, a rare global showing for a bar that had only opened in September 2023. Bangkok placed eight bars in the 2026 top 50, and Bar Us sits alongside Dry Wave at No.4 and Lennon's at No.8 as proof that the city's cocktail scene now competes at the very top of the list.