Best Restaurants in Silom Bangkok: Thai Food, International Dining & Local Favorites!

In Silom, Bangkok, book Le Du for a modern Thai tasting menu, Sühring for German fine dining, Eat Me for a late dinner and Baan Phadthai for pad thai at lunch. Silom is Bangkok's banking district by day and one of its best places to eat at any hour. Within a few blocks of BTS Sala Daeng you can have a Michelin-starred Thai tasting menu, a 20-minute curry lunch with office workers, and grilled skewers at a Japanese izakaya after dark. This guide to the best restaurants in Silom, Bangkok covers all three: refined Thai food, international dining and the local favourites that keep the district fed.

Silom runs from Rama IV Road and Lumphini Park in the east to Charoen Krung Road near the river in the west, with Sathorn Road parallel to the south. For hotels and how the neighbourhood fits the rest of the city, see our Bangkok neighbourhoods guide, and plan your trip around our Bangkok city page.

How we chose these restaurants: We picked places in Silom, Sala Daeng, Convent Road and the Sathorn side of Bang Rak that cover every budget, and checked Michelin status against the 2026 Michelin Guide Thailand (announced in November 2025) and other details against recent listings as of October 2026. Street stalls are grouped by street because individual vendors change more often than restaurants.

The list has 15 places. Four are Michelin-recognised, the highest with three stars, and three BTS/MRT stops cover them all.

New to the area? The Silom travel guide covers the sights, transport and street layout, and there is a separate guide to hotels in the same streets.

Silom restaurants compared at a glance

Le Du and Sühring are Silom's two tasting-menu dinners, Eat Me suits a late date night, the Empire Tower restaurants are for sunset views and Baan Phadthai is the lunch stop for pad thai. The table sorts each restaurant by type, budget, the best time to go and the kind of meal it suits best.

Use this table to match a place to your budget and the time of day you plan to eat.

Most of the places in the table sit within a 10-minute walk of BTS Sala Daeng or MRT Silom, the two stations at the Silom Road and Rama IV junction, so you can pair a cheap lunch with a tasting-menu dinner on the same day. Since 1 June 2026 the MRT Blue Line no longer accepts the old stored-value MRT cards: tap a contactless Visa, Mastercard or UnionPay card at the gate and tap the same card on the way out. The budget symbols are relative, from a street plate ($) to a tasting menu ($$$$) that usually needs a booking well ahead.

Best restaurants in Silom Bangkok: full guide

The list runs from fine dining to street food, with the area, price band, best time and how to get there for each.

Le Du

Food-focused visitors staying in Silom usually book Le Du first. Chef Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn builds his modern Thai tasting menus around Thai produce: river prawns, heirloom rice, herbs from small growers, and sauces that taste familiar to a Thai diner but look nothing like the street versions. The room is small and the kitchen counter puts you close to the cooking.

The Michelin Guide lists Le Du with one star in the 2026 Thailand edition, at 399/3 Soi Si Lom 7 in Bang Rak, a short walk from BTS Chong Nonsi or Sala Daeng. Service runs on set menus only and in the evenings (check the booking page for closed days), so plan a two-to-three-hour dinner, too long to squeeze in before a rooftop bar. Wine pairings are offered, and a non-alcoholic pairing is worth asking about if you do not drink.

The honest caveat: tables go weeks ahead around holidays and the bill sits at the very top of Bangkok pricing. If you only want a taste of the chef's style, his more casual Thai places elsewhere in the city cost far less.

Treat it as a once-in-a-trip dinner. Book online as soon as your dates are fixed and mention allergies when you book, since the menu is set in advance.

Sühring

Twin chefs Thomas and Mathias Sühring cook modern German tasting menus in a house with a garden, tucked into a quiet lane off the Sathorn side of the district (the Michelin Guide places it in Yan Nawa). In the 2026 Michelin Guide Thailand it was promoted to three stars after seven years at two, making it only the second three-star restaurant in the country after Sorn.

The menu leans on bread, butter, pickles and slow-cooked meats from the brothers' family recipes, served in many small courses. It is the most formal meal on this list, top-tier in price, dinner only, and the hardest table to get since the promotion, so reserve far ahead.

It is too far to walk from central Silom in the evening heat. Take a taxi or Grab and ask the driver to use the soi name on your booking confirmation, since the lane is easy to miss.

Serious diners marking a big occasion should join the waitlist if their night is full; cancellations do appear.

Eat Me

Up a short flight of stairs at 1/6 Soi Phiphat 2, a lane off Convent Road, Eat Me has been one of Silom's grown-up dinner addresses for years, a long-running favourite that once reached No. 23 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list. The cooking is seasonal modern international, hard to pin to one cuisine, with menus that change through the year.

The dining room doubles as a gallery, with rotating art on the walls and a terrace that works on cooler evenings from December to February. The kitchen and bar run late (Sunday opens earlier), which makes it a good last stop after a show or a meeting.

Prices run upper mid to high, and the à la carte adds up quickly once wine is involved. Go for a few small plates and a cocktail at the bar if you want the atmosphere without a full dinner bill. For a relaxed date night without a tasting menu, ask for a terrace table in the cool season.

Le Du Kaan, Nobu and Sartoria at The Empire Tower

Three serious restaurants sit near the top of The Empire Tower on Sathorn Road, between the 56th and 60th floors, linked to BTS Chong Nonsi. Le Du Kaan, the rooftop sibling of Le Du, serves Thai sharing dishes on the 56th floor. Sartoria by chef Paulo Airaudo, an Italian fine-dining room, shares that floor. Nobu Bangkok takes the 57th, 58th and 60th floors with its familiar Japanese-Peruvian menu.

Booking one of these gives you a skyline dinner, at a high price, without the scrum of the better-known rooftop bars. Le Du Kaan is the most flexible of the three: you can order just a few plates with no long set menu, and it serves lunch as well as dinner.

Weather is the catch. Outdoor seats close when storms roll in during the May to October rainy season, so request an indoor window table as a back-up when you book. Sunset slots fill first; book the earliest sunset seating and arrive ten minutes early for the lift queue.

Baan Phadthai

One dish, done properly, earned Baan Phadthai its Michelin Bib Gourmand. The restaurant is a converted old shophouse in the narrow Bang Rak lanes between Silom and Charoen Krung, and the pad thai is cooked to order, one plate at a time, in several versions with different proteins.

Compared with the street versions on Silom Road, the noodles are less sweet and the wok work is cleaner. The menu also carries a short list of Thai starters and salads, so it works for a full lunch or dinner.

Prices are mid-range, well above a street stall, which is fair for the setting and the ingredients. The lane location means you will need your map app, and a short taxi ride is easier in the midday heat. Come for a sit-down pad thai with air conditioning, then walk along Charoen Krung Road.

Somtum Der

Isan cooking went global from the original Somtum Der on Sala Daeng Road, near Lumphini Park and a walk from BTS Sala Daeng or MRT Si Lom. Its New York branch received a Michelin star in 2016, the first som tam restaurant anywhere to do so, and this casual Bangkok shop has stayed a lunchtime favourite of Silom office workers. It also serves dinner, at budget to mid-range prices.

Order a papaya salad at your heat level (say "phet nit noi" for mild), grilled pork neck, larb, sticky rice in a basket and a plate of fried chicken. The kitchen is happy to adjust chilli, and the dishes come quickly. For a first Isan meal, share four or five dishes between two people with sticky rice.

It is small and gets loud at peak hours. Go just after noon on a weekday or after 2 pm to avoid the office rush.

Baan Somtum (Sathorn branch)

The second Isan stop worth knowing is Baan Somtum, a Bib Gourmand pick whose Sathorn branch is just off Si Wiang Road, a short walk from BTS Surasak. Its big menu runs to more than a dozen styles of papaya salad, from the plain Thai version with peanuts to fermented fish and salted crab versions, at budget to mid-range prices for lunch and dinner.

The Michelin Guide has written about the restaurant as a place to share Isan dishes with friends, and it suits a group because portions are generous and the space is bigger than most neighbourhood shophouses. Point at the picture menu if staff are busy.

Some versions of som tam use pla ra (fermented fish sauce), which is pungent. If you are new to it, start with som tam Thai and try a spoon of a friend's pla ra version.

Benjarong at Baan Dusit Thani

The Dusit Thani group's long-standing Thai restaurant, Benjarong, now sits in Baan Dusit Thani, a heritage-style house close to Sala Daeng at the Lumphini end of Silom. Bring someone here who wants polished royal-style Thai cooking in a calm room with proper service; it suits a family dinner or a business meal, with lunch and dinner sittings.

The menu follows Thai classics with careful presentation. In the hot season, ask whether khao chae is on: chilled jasmine rice in scented water with small, intensely seasoned side dishes, a palace-era summer meal rarely seen on regular menus.

Prices are high compared with a shophouse meal, and the food is refined and gentle on chilli. If you want heat, ask the staff to cook a dish at local spice levels. Book a garden-side table in the cooler months.

Krua Aroy Aroy

Pots of curry sit at the front of Krua Aroy Aroy, a lunchtime curry-and-rice shop off Pan Road near the Sri Maha Mariamman (Wat Khaek) Hindu temple at the western end of Silom Road. You point at what you want: massaman, green curry, khao soi on some days and a Thai-Muslim style biryani.

Budget-priced and good value for the district, it has a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The pace is quick, staff are used to foreigners, and a solo traveller can have a proper lunch in 20 minutes.

Popular curries sell out by mid-afternoon, so come before 1 pm for the full choice. Pair it with a visit to the temple, which asks for covered shoulders.

Silom Soi 20 morning market

Every morning except Monday, when city rules keep street vendors off the pavements, Silom Soi 20 turns into a busy breakfast market for a local crowd of office workers and residents, a walk from BTS Surasak or Chong Nonsi. The stalls serve Thai-Chinese breakfast staples, grilled pork with sticky rice, fresh fruit and sweet black sticky rice with custard, all at street-food prices.

The stall food bloggers queue for is the khao mok gai (Thai-Muslim chicken biryani). It often sells out before 9 am, so arrive between 7 and 8 am. Bring small notes; vendors rarely have change for a 1,000-baht bill.

Most stalls pack up by about 9 to 10 am. There is little seating, so eat on a plastic stool or take food back to your hotel. Early risers will love it.

Convent Road noodle and goose stalls

On weekdays the district's most reliable street-food strip is Convent Road, which runs between Silom and Sathorn near BTS Sala Daeng and MRT Si Lom. Look for yen ta fo (pink noodle soup with fish balls) across from BNH Hospital, a separate yen ta fo stall known as JC, a kao mok gai (chicken biryani) vendor and Tang Hong Potchana for stewed goose.

Silom office workers eat here at breakfast and lunch, so turnover is fast and the food is fresh. Meals cost street-food prices, a fraction of a restaurant bill, and you can try three or four dishes in one walk, starting at the Silom end and working toward Sathorn.

Stalls change hours and some move around; weekends are quieter. Look for the busiest stall, whatever the sign says.

Hung Sen and the Sala Daeng Soi 1 lunch strip

Banks and offices surround Sala Daeng Soi 1, a small lane packed with budget weekday lunch spots serving noodles, rice dishes and coffee. Hung Sen, a simple noodle shop, is one of the steady names, and Eureka nearby is a small café for a quiet coffee. Silom Road itself, near Silom Complex, has well-known egg-noodle stalls such as Nai Meng.

The appeal is practical: decent noodles, fast service and prices that match a Thai office lunch. If you are staying in a Silom hotel and want something better than the mall food court, come here and order by pointing at the noodle type in the glass case.

Expect queues between noon and 1 pm. Arrive at 11:30 am or after 1:15 pm.

Nantei Yakitori and the Thaniya izakayas

Around Thaniya Road, near BTS Sala Daeng, Silom has a long-established Japanese quarter, and its izakayas draw anyone who likes grilled skewers and cold beer after work. Nantei, in the Montien complex on Surawong Road opposite Patpong, is known for chicken skewers, including tsukune meatballs with a raw egg dip. Daimasu is another Silom izakaya with charcoal-grilled dishes and sashimi.

These mid-range places serve a Japanese expat and business crowd, so the quality is consistent and the menus have English. They stay open into the late evening, which fits a casual dinner with drinks. Order skewers in rounds, a few at a time.

Thaniya Road also has hostess bars aimed at Japanese businessmen. The restaurants are separate and family-friendly, but the street can feel odd at night if you are not expecting it.

Al Saray and Silom's Middle Eastern tables

Travellers who want halal-friendly food and a change from Thai flavours can head to Al Saray, a Lebanese restaurant on Silom Road. The menu covers mezze, grilled meats, fresh bread and the usual dips. It is mid-priced, open for lunch and dinner, and works for families and groups who want to share; order a mixed mezze.

Silom also has a strong Muslim-Thai food scene around Pan Road and the side lanes near the mosque on Charoen Krung, so halal-conscious diners have more choice here than in many parts of Bangkok.

Halal certification differs between restaurants. If it matters to you, ask staff to show their certificate, which Thai halal kitchens usually display.

Patpong Night Market and late snacks

From about 6 pm to 1 am daily, Patpong Night Market sets up on the lanes between Silom and Surawong, a short walk from BTS Sala Daeng. It is mainly a shopping market, but a handful of food vendors and the surrounding streets give you cheap late-night options: grilled skewers, fruit shakes, roti and noodle carts.

Come for a late snack and a browse after a rooftop drink or a show; for a sit-down meal late at night, the izakayas on Thaniya Road are a better bet.

Patpong is also Bangkok's best-known red-light strip. Ignore touts offering shows upstairs, and agree prices before ordering at any bar; disputes over inflated bills are a long-standing problem there.

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How to choose where to eat in Silom by budget and time of day

Silom rewards planning around the clock. Breakfast is a street affair: Soi 20 and Convent Road are at their best before 9 am and at weekday lunch, and many stalls are closed or thin on Mondays and at weekends. If you are only in the district for a weekend, lean on restaurants and the night market.

For lunch, the shophouse places (Krua Aroy Aroy, Somtum Der, the Sala Daeng Soi 1 strip) serve fast, honest food at prices far below hotel restaurants. Dinner is where Silom's range shows: book Le Du or Sühring weeks ahead, the Empire Tower restaurants for a sunset slot, or walk into an izakaya on Thaniya Road with no plan at all.

Getting around is easy. BTS Sala Daeng and MRT Si Lom meet at the Lumphini end, BTS Chong Nonsi serves the Sathorn side and The Empire Tower, and BTS Surasak and Saphan Taksin cover the western half toward the river. In the hot season (March to May), a short Grab ride between two places that look close on the map is often worth it.

Tips for eating out in Silom

Le Du, Sühring and the Empire Tower restaurants take online bookings. For December, January and long Thai holidays, reserve as soon as your flights are set. Street food works the other way: Soi 20 and Convent Road stalls are busiest and freshest at breakfast and weekday lunch, and many vendors stay off the pavements on Mondays.

Say "mai phet" for not spicy or "phet nit noi" for a little spicy; Isan restaurants will happily tone down a papaya salad. Carry small notes, because street vendors and small shops often cannot change a 1,000-baht note. Many restaurants accept cards and Thai QR payments, while stalls usually want cash.

Mid-range and upmarket restaurants usually add a service charge and VAT, shown as "++" on menus, and tipping on top is optional. From May to October, afternoon storms can close rooftop terraces, so request an indoor table as a back-up.

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