Songkran-week dining: where to eat when half the city is closed and the other half is wet.
Songkran complicates the city for a week. Many restaurants run reduced hours; many staff are travelling; some establishments close outright. Below: five places that handled Songkran-week dining well.
The dining room was unusually quiet on the eve of the holiday — and the kitchen, freed from its high-season volume, sent out the cleanest course-pacing we've experienced there in months. The Cannelloni was perfect.
Read the review →Open through the holiday, half-staffed but in good spirits. We sat in the garden, ate larb and a green curry, watched the procession of soaked tourists wander through Pratumnak Soi 4. A reminder that the social-mission-driven kitchens often handle pressure better than the high-end ones.
Read the review →When the streets are too wet for an evening walk, the hotel buffet earns its keep. Edge's Songkran-week brunch was scaled-back from the high-season version but better-executed for it. The oyster bar was at its peak.
Read the review →Dry clothes, candles, a Thai-set menu in the garden pavilions. After three days of getting drenched, this was the right reset.
Read the review →Indian restaurants are reliably open through Songkran — different staff demographics, different holiday calendars. We ate proper biryani at lunch on what would have been the city's quietest day, and the kitchen had room to actually make it well.
Read the review →That was the week.
— The Editors