Best Restaurants in Bangkok: 20 Places Ranked by Price Band, From 79-Baht Roast Duck to Three Michelin Stars

How this list is ranked (price bands, not vibes)

The ranking starts from data, not impressions. Each restaurant is checked against its Google rating and review volume, its Michelin status in the 2026 guide on guide.michelin.com where it has one, and public sources for its signature dishes and prices: the restaurant’s own site, the Michelin Guide, Time Out, BK Magazine, Wongnai, Eating Thai Food and similar. Editorial judgement then orders the list across price bands, so a 79-baht duck shop can sit above a hotel dining room. Starred restaurants lead because they need the most planning: Sorn, for example, opens bookings on the 15th of each month for the month after.

Best restaurants in Bangkok under 300 THB

The cheapest band has some of the most reliable cooking in the city. Prachak on Charoen Krung calls itself a 112-year legend and traces the family business to the reign of King Rama V; the third generation now runs it, and the 79-baht duck on rice is still the order. Google lists closing at 20:30 and Naew Na at 22:00, so arrive before 20:00. Tonoak sits up a staircase on Siam Square that is easy to walk past, serving khao maew and stir-fried sticky rice with grilled pork neck in jaew. Gokfayuen on Thonglor Soi 9 makes its own egg noodles and chilli paste and opens at 07:00. Khao-Sō-i on Soi Convent lets you taste the khao soi broth before ordering. Kopihub in Ari is a weekend breakfast with Hat Yai dim sum. Krua Apsorn’s crab omelette at about 90 to 100 baht belongs here too, though its yellow-chilli crab pushes a meal over the line. For stalls rather than shophouses, see street food in Bangkok.

Bangkok restaurants for dinner (300 to 2,000 THB)

This is the band most dinners fall into. Prai Raya on Sukhumvit Soi 8 serves Phuket food at full heat in a big house, so order the crab curry for the table. Baan Ice in Thonglor cooks southern Thai from the grandmother of Sorn’s chef, at 350 to 700 baht a head, with four hours of building parking stamped at the restaurant. Aunglo by Yangrak in Silom is a charcoal-grill Thai izakaya with a Bib Gourmand, where two people can sit at the counter and order a dozen small plates. Kinnaree by Vanessa WU on Soi 8 is the pick for visitors who want Thai food with a story behind every ingredient. North on Soi 33 serves refined northern food in a garden house. Hua Seng Hong on Yaowarat is the Chinese family dinner, open until midnight on Google’s hours.

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A view and good food rarely come together cheaply. Bangkok Heightz is the mid-priced option on this list, a Thai rooftop dinner on the 39th floor at Asok that a HappyCow reviewer put at about 1,250 baht a head, with a 500-baht deposit for a window table taken off the bill. At the top end, Mezzaluna and Chef’s Table in State Tower and Côte and Le Normandie on the river all hold two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide. The full range is in the rooftop restaurants in Bangkok guide, and for tables at water level see Chao Phraya river restaurants.

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Krua Apsorn on Dinso Road is where Bangkok families take out-of-town guests to show them Thai home cooking done well: the crab omelette, the yellow-chilli crab, a fast room and cash at the till. Prai Raya does southern crab curry, Baan Ice gaeng tai pla, and Tonoak a chicken-on-rice recipe that Thairath says has not changed in fifty years. For the Old Town’s famous pad thai, Thipsamai at Pratu Phi has been serving since 1939, a few doors from Jay Fai, and Time Out’s 2018 review described its queue forming before opening; the Old Town Bangkok restaurants guide covers the streets around both. These places share a short menu of dishes cooked many times a day and prices mostly under 500 baht.

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The top of the list is where Bangkok competes with any city in Asia. Sorn is the reference, three stars for southern Thai at 7,200 baht. R-Haan holds two stars for its samrub menu. Potong and 80/20 hold one star each, in Chinatown and Talat Noi, and nahm and Saneh Jaan are the two starred Thai kitchens you can try for under 1,200 baht. Jay Fai is a street-food shophouse with a star, and its queue and prices are part of the story: in August 2025 the Department of Internal Trade fined it 2,000 baht after a premium crab omelette was billed at 4,000 baht, so check which version you order. Beyond Thai, Sühring was promoted to three stars in the 2026 guide, INDDEE to two and Gaggan to one; see Indian restaurants in Bangkok. The Michelin restaurants in Bangkok list has every star with prices, and fine dining in Bangkok ranks the tasting menus by value.

Best restaurants in Bangkok by neighbourhood

Sukhumvit and Phrom Phong have Sorn, North, Prai Raya and Kinnaree by Vanessa WU, all within fifteen minutes’ walk of BTS Nana or Phrom Phong; more in Sukhumvit restaurants. Thonglor has R-Haan, Baan Ice and Gokfayuen; see Thonglor restaurants. Silom and Sathorn have nahm, Aunglo and Khao-Sō-i; see Silom restaurants. Chinatown has Potong and Hua Seng Hong, with many more in Chinatown Bangkok restaurants. The Old Town has Jay Fai and Krua Apsorn, both best reached from MRT Sam Yot; more in Old Town Bangkok restaurants. Charoen Krung has Prachak and 80/20; see Charoen Krung and riverside restaurants. Siam has Tonoak (Siam restaurants), Ari has Kopihub (Ari restaurants), and Asok has Bangkok Heightz (Asok restaurants).

Practical notes for eating out in Bangkok

Book the starred restaurants, and use Chope for Prai Raya at weekends; Gokfayuen and Aunglo take bookings by phone, and most of the shophouses are walk-in. Carry cash for Jay Fai, Krua Apsorn and most shophouses, and expect card payment and the ”++” service charge in hotels and chef’s restaurants. Fixed closing days to remember: Sorn on Saturday, Potong on Wednesday, Jay Fai from Sunday to Tuesday, 80/20 on Monday and Tuesday. Krua Apsorn’s weekly closing day differs between sources (Thursday on Google, Sunday on World of Mouth), so call ahead. The BTS and MRT stop around midnight, and Grab or a metered taxi covers the rest.