Mikkeller Bangkok is the Danish gypsy brewery's Asian flagship, opened in January 2014 as the first Mikkeller bar anywhere on the continent. Thirty taps run down the back wall, pouring the Copenhagen brewery's core range alongside Bangkok-only exclusives and rotating guest pours from European and American craft breweries. The bar occupies a refurbished 1950s Thai house on a quiet Ekkamai soi, a craft-beer bar in Ekkamai, Bangkok that trades the city's usual high-gloss nightlife aesthetic for bean-bag lawns, a tropical garden, and patio seating under the old timber frame.
Upstairs sits the other half of the operation. Mikkeller Upstairs is a 10-course beer-pairing chef's table run by Dan Bark, formerly of the three-Michelin-starred Grace in Chicago, and it only opens Fridays and Saturdays. The pairing concept took Best Beer Bar at the 2023 BK Magazine BAD Awards, which recognized the combined downstairs taproom and Upstairs kitchen as the city's most serious craft-beer destination.
You arrive down a residential lane off Ekkamai 10 and find a two-storey wooden house set back from the street. Downstairs has the tap wall, a small bar counter and scattered tables inside, with most of the crowd sprawled across the lawn on bean bags or tucked into the garden patio. Service is counter-order and relaxed. Staff know the list cold and will talk you through what is pouring, since the rotating taps change often enough that regulars come back just to see what is new. Expect a mix of expats, Bangkok craft-beer regulars and visiting Mikkeller fans. Weekends bring a heavier food crowd when Upstairs is open, along with occasional tap takeovers, pop-up dinners and the monthly Mikkeller Running Club meetups.
The draw is the thirty-tap lineup, which always holds a deep cross-section of Mikkeller's catalogue plus Bangkok-only Mikkeller exclusives and rare spontaneous or dry-hopped releases you will not find at the group's other Asian outposts. Beyond beer, there are ciders, meads, spirits and juices for non-drinkers or switch-hitters. Food runs from bar snacks to full plates out of the Dan Bark kitchen, with IPA Glazed Wings and Smoked Ox Tongue Nachos as the two items most regulars order on repeat. The real showpiece is the Mikkeller Upstairs tasting menu, a ten-plus course degustation where each course is paired to a specific Mikkeller pour, served at an intimate counter only on Friday and Saturday nights. The bar menu also covers sandwiches, burgers, sausages and occasional barbecue nights when the garden is in use.
Mikkeller Bangkok sits on Soi Ekkamai 10, Lane 2, a quiet residential offshoot in Watthana a short tuk-tuk or ten-minute walk from BTS Ekkamai. Head up Sukhumvit 63, turn into Ekkamai 10, then follow the lane past the houses until you see the wooden 1950s building on your right.
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