No. 01
Bruno's Restaurant & Wine Bar
The bar end of Bruno's is the city's quietest pleasure for solo wine drinkers. Three glasses, an hour, the sommelier curious about what you've eaten elsewhere this week.
Read the review →Bar seats, counter dining, restaurants where a single diner is welcomed rather than tolerated.
Solo dining is a particular pleasure that some restaurants understand and others don't. The good ones offer a bar or counter seat, treat a single diner with the same care as a four-top, and don't make the experience feel transactional. These are the Pattaya rooms that the editors prefer when eating alone.
The bar end of Bruno's is the city's quietest pleasure for solo wine drinkers. Three glasses, an hour, the sommelier curious about what you've eaten elsewhere this week.
Read the review →The Royal Cliff's wine cellar is happy to seat a single diner. A glass from the back of the list, picked by the sommelier, an hour to read.
Read the review →Solo breakfast is the most underrated meal of the week. Soi Buakhao, six-thirty in the morning, your jok and your newspaper. Nobody minds.
Read the review →The garden has table-for-one capacity that other Thai restaurants don't. Read between courses; the staff give you space.
Read the review →Korean fried chicken counters were made for solo dining. A small plate, a beer, the city's evening starting around you.
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