The Michelin Guide Bangkok covers the city’s best restaurants, including Thai and international cuisine. Since it was announced that the Michelin guide would cover Bangkok, the entire industry has been on high alert. With menus that will earn a place in the world’s most famous restaurant guide. This is the sixth in Asia and deserves the latest explosion in Bangkok’s fine dining scene. This list of our favorite Bangkok Michelin-starred restaurants are places that tick all the boxes to be included in the prestigious Red Book. Elegant French diners have received the most awards, although an ongoing trend, seen in further Asian Michelin Guides, is the inclusion of great venues, including street food. This Bangkok fine dining guide is a testament to the city’s unique food culture.
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Sorn
Sorn is one of the best restaurants in Bangkok and is known worldwide for its innovative cuisine. It’s also one of the most difficult-to-reach restaurants in the Thai capital. By securing a table, you will be taken on a unique culinary journey through the diverse cultures of southern Thailand. Sorn’s kitchen team uses ancient recipes and ingredients from farmers and fishermen in south Thailand.
The menu features 22 different dishes, all of which are temperature sensitive. Dishes include sand turkey shrimp with chili and seaweed, raw Phuket lobster and yellow curry with young mangosteen and gu fish. Sorn’s location in an elegantly renovated two-story wooden mansion adds to the restaurant’s charm and appeal.
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Mezzaluna
Mezzaluna Bangkok is an exceptional gourmet restaurant on the 65th floor of Tower Club in Lebua. Famed for its set menus of just 5 or 7 courses, Mezzaluna impresses with a daily menu of superb haute cuisine prepared by a visionary chef. Chef Ryuki Kawasaki has ventured around the world in a who’s who game with culinary giants like Pierre Gagnaire and Joël Robuchon. This is an expensive restaurant (about 12,500 baht for a unique 5-course experience). But if you want to dazzle someone for a special occasion, Mezzaluna is the best option.
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Le Normandie
Le Normandie is often referred to as “the grand dame” of haute cuisine in Bangkok. It offers a complete dining experience: a sumptuous dining room, classic French cuisine, meticulous service (with a detailed explanation of each course) and the soft tinkling of the grand piano to round off the occasion. The restaurant is located in Mandarin Oriental Bangkok, and the food here is always a travel motive and therefore deserves its inclusion. Nonetheless, chef Arnaud Dunand Sauthier has revived people’s attention to try dishes again, such as marinated veal cheeks, foie gras with a plum and port reduction and his Grand Marnier soufflé.
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Nusara
Nusara is a gourmet restaurant in Bangkok, located in an intimate dining room with just ten people. The restaurant’s 12-course menu guides guests through contemporary and innovative Thai cuisine. You can find dishes like a spicy squid salad, traditional Wagyu beef pad kra prao, and the signature crab curry dish served in betel leaves and topped with horseshoe crab roe. While each word is more creative than the one before, they all have one thing in common: authentic Thai-level spiciness. So make sure you can handle the heat! Nusara’s location above Mayrai Pad Thai and the wine bar can be hard to find, so look for a bar with red lights, go to the back and up the spiral staircase.
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Bo.Lan
Famed for pioneering the concept of fine Thai cuisine in Bo. Lan is unwavering in his dedication to authentic Thai recipes. Here you can taste old dishes prepared with the best ingredients but presented in European haute cuisine. In explaining one of the dishes, chef Dylan apologized that a particular game bird he would have liked to use (according to the recipe’s origin) has been extinct in Thailand for generations. The women’s team will come in search of authenticity. The dining room is full of Thai accents, and there’s an herb garden outside, so you know why mint and basil are so fresh.
