Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ENTERTAINMENT
LIVE MUSIC
PARKING TOYS
( 0 2907 2228; 17/22 Soi Mayalap, off Kaset-Navamin Hwy; 6pm-2am; Mo Chit exit 3 & taxi)
Parking
Toys is one of Bangkok's best venues for live music, and hosts an eclectic revolving cast of
fun bands ranging in genre from rockabilly to electro-funk jam acts.
To get here, take a taxi heading north from BTS Mo Chit and tell the driver to take you
to the Kaset intersection and turn right on Th Kaset-Navamin; Parking Toys is just past the
second stoplight on this road.
COSMIC CAFÉ
(
www.facebook.com/cosmiccafe.bkk
;
Block C, Royal City Ave (RCA), off Th Phra Ram IX; 8pm-2am Mon-Sat;
Phra Ram 9 exit 3 & taxi)
Blessedly more low-key than most places on RCA, Cosmic calls itself a
cafe but looks like a bar, and in recent years has become one of Bangkok's better live-mu-
sic clubs. Despite the slight identity crisis, it's is a fun place to drink, rock to live music and
meet, Thai-style.
LIVE MUSIC
LUMPINEE BOXING STADIUM
(
www.muaythailumpinee.net/en
; Th Ramintra; tickets 3rd-class/2nd-class/ringside 1000/ 2000/3000B; Chatuchak
Park exit 2 & taxi, Mo Chit exit 3 & taxi)
The other of Bangkok's two premier Thai boxing rings
recently moved to fancy new digs north of town. Matches occur on Tuesday and Friday
from 6.30pm to 10.30pm, and Saturday at 4pm to 8pm and 8.30pm to midnight. At time of
research there were plans underway for a Thai boxing museum and a school for foreign
fighters.
THAI BOXING
TAWANDANG GERMAN BREWERY
(
www.tawandang.co.th
;
cnr Th Phra Ram III & Th Narathiwat Ratchanakharin (Th Chong Nonsi); 5pm-1am;
Chong Nonsi exit 2 & taxi)
It's Oktoberfest all year round at this hangar-sized music hall. The
Thai-German food is tasty, the house-made brews are entirely potable, and the nightly stage
shows make singing along a necessity. Music starts at 8.30pm.
LIVE MUSIC
MAMBO CABARET
( 0 2294 7381;
www.mambocabaret.com
;
59/28 Yannawa Tat Mai; tickets 800-1000B; show times 7.15pm &
8.30pm; Chong Nonsi exit 2 taxi)
This transgender cabaret venue hosts choreographed stage
shows featuring Broadway high-kicks and lip-synched pop tunes.
CABARET
HOUSE
CINEMA
