Silom Restaurants: 14 Places to Eat from Soi Convent to the Temple End

How Silom eats: office lunch, night side, temple end

Silom Road runs from the Sala Daeng intersection at Rama 4 toward Charoen Krung, and each stretch eats differently. The first stretch, from Lumphini Park to Silom Complex, is pure office district. Soi Convent and Soi Sala Daeng are the lunch arteries: carts selling curry over rice, chicken biryani and yen ta fo set up from 11:00, while sit-down places such as Khao-Sō-i, Hai and La Dotta share the same shophouse rows. Across the road, Thaniya and Patpong are quiet by day; after dark Thaniya becomes a street of Japanese izakaya and ramen counters, and Silom Soi 4 turns into a bar strip.

Past Chong Nonsi toward Surasak the mood changes to an older neighbourhood. Silom Soi 20 and the road around the Sri Maha Mariamman temple (Wat Khaek to locals) form an Indian and Muslim quarter of biryani shops, roti stalls and North Indian curry houses; Travelfish describes Soi 20 at lunch as dozens of vendors selling cheap Thai-Chinese street food, with about half the trade from foreign visitors. Soi Lalai Sap, Silom Soi 5, sits between the two zones as the office workers’ food and clothes market, a weekday lunchtime affair. At weekends Hai is closed on Sunday and several office-zone kitchens keep shorter hours, while Silom Complex and the temple end keep going.

Best restaurants in Silom for lunch under 200 THB

Silom’s cheapest meals are on the pavement, not in the list. Soi Convent at noon has curry-and-rice carts, chicken biryani and yen ta fo at street prices. Silom Soi 20 has the chicken biryani stall that Eating Thai Food calls one of the best in Bangkok and reports selling out before 09:00. Soi Lalai Sap does curry over rice and noodles on weekdays.

For a seat and air-con at close to that money, Hai on Soi Convent keeps it cheap: sweet blanched liver at 95 baht, som tam and sticky rice for a solo diner well under 200. Ariya on Soi 20 does an aloo paratha at 95 baht and masala tea at 75 as a light lunch. Khao-Sō-i’s bowls (159 to 268 baht) and Boon Tong Kee in Silom Complex (about 200 to 400 a head) sit above the line, but they are a full meal; several Khao-Sō-i reviewers on Wongnai found no queue mid-afternoon.

Silom Complex and Thaniya: what is actually good

Silom Complex is the easy option because it plugs directly into BTS Sala Daeng exit 4. The B floor is the food level, with Have a Zeed for Thai-Isan done in comfort and Boon Tong Kee for Singapore chicken rice. Hungry Hub and Grab list more in the same building: Baan Ying for shrimp and creamy-egg rice, Laem Charoen Seafood for Thai seafood, Mo-Mo-Paradise shabu on the B floor, and the Japanese restaurant Fuji on the 4th floor. The building has its own car park. Veganerie is often placed in Silom Complex online; it is actually in the Baan Silom building at number 663, the temple end.

Thaniya Plaza is across the road, also linked to the BTS, and a different world. Aoringo in room 404 on the 4th floor does Japanese curry that Grab puts in its lowest price tier. Soi Thaniya behind it holds the izakaya, ramen and sushi counters. Hokkaido Genshiyaki makes the list for its central genshiyaki charcoal hearth and a Google score of 4.7 from more than 1,100 reviews. For cheaper Japanese, walk the soi after 18:00 and read the set boards.

Silom street food: Soi Convent, Soi 20 and Lalai Sap

Three sois carry Silom’s street food reputation, and they work on different clocks. Soi Convent is a lunch soi. Carts line the pavement from late morning and the office crowd arrives at noon. Silom Soi 20 runs from early morning: the biryani stall sells out before nine, per Eating Thai Food, the morning market trades through the morning, and by lunch Travelfish counts dozens of vendors selling cheap Thai-Chinese plates, with about half the trade from foreign visitors.

Soi Lalai Sap, Silom Soi 5, is the one most visitors miss. It is a weekday lunchtime market where office workers buy lunch and clothes in one trip. If street food is the main event, Chinatown’s MRT Wat Mangkon is three stops from Si Lom, and our street food in Bangkok guide covers the city-wide picture.

Silom halal and Indian food near the Hindu temple

For halal food in Silom, head to the Surasak end. The Sri Maha Mariamman temple at the corner of Silom and Pan Road anchors a neighbourhood of Indian, Pakistani and Arab kitchens, most of them on Silom Soi 20 and the lanes toward Surawong. Ariya at 55 Soi 20 publishes its prices: North Indian curries from 95 to 345 baht, open 10:30 to 22:30, vegetarian dishes confirmed by the restaurant, and a request that diners ask about halal status directly rather than assume it.

Al Saray at the Sala Daeng end is the other reference. It serves Lebanese and Indian food until midnight, is listed among Bangkok’s halal restaurants by Grab, and is the place to take a mixed group because the mezze and grilled meats work for everyone. Two things to know: this branch pours alcohol, unlike the Soonvijai original, and the website carries no certification statement. For the city-wide list see halal restaurants in Bangkok and Indian restaurants in Bangkok.

Silom restaurants for dinner and late night (Soi 4, Patpong)

Silom’s bar lane is Soi 4, off the Sala Daeng end, where drinks come first and food second. If dinner matters, the list has better late options. Cento opens at 17:30 and runs to midnight with a 200-label wine list and Italian cocktails. Al Saray closes at midnight and, as noted, serves alcohol. Lay Lao in the Yada Building goes to 23:00 with Isan plates built for beer. Hokkaido Genshiyaki’s dinner sitting runs 17:00 to 22:00.

Beyond the list, KTC and Grab both list 25 Degrees on the ground floor of the Pullman Bangkok Hotel G as open 24 hours, at about 600 baht a head per KTC. Grab adds Boon Pochana on Silom Road, open 11:00 to 03:00, and Sunrise Tacos on the corner of Soi 4, open 24 hours. For a view, KTC lists Ojo on the 76th floor of The Standard, Mahanakhon, by BTS Chong Nonsi, at about 2,000 baht a head; the broader set is in our rooftop bars in Bangkok guide. Zanotti and Cento are the two Silom rooms that belong in a fine dining in Bangkok conversation; the nearest Michelin-starred tables are on the Sathorn side, covered in Sathorn restaurants.

Getting around Silom by BTS and MRT

Silom is served by both the BTS and the MRT. BTS Sala Daeng on the Silom line and MRT Si Lom on the Blue line connect by an elevated walkway at the Sala Daeng intersection. From Sala Daeng exit 4 you enter Silom Complex without touching the pavement, and the same skywalk reaches Thaniya Plaza and Park Silom. Convent Road starts a few hundred metres from the station; Soi Sala Daeng is on the park side. BTS Chong Nonsi, at the Narathiwat junction, is a few minutes from Nua Niyom on Silom Soi 3 and has the skywalk across to Sathorn. BTS Surasak is the stop for Veganerie at the temple end, and Ariya on Soi 20 sits roughly equidistant from Surasak, Saint Louis and Chong Nonsi, all much closer than Sala Daeng.

For drivers, the car parks are Silom Complex, Thaniya Plaza and Park Silom (a Wongnai reviewer reports six free hours at weekends). For Khao-Sō-i, Wongnai reviewers point to the Chalanthip building nearby, which stamps two free hours for diners. One stop beyond on the MRT, Samyan Mitrtown has its own food floors (see Samyan Mitrtown restaurants); across the river, see riverside restaurants in Bangkok for the Charoen Krung side that starts where Silom ends.