North Gate Spirit
Live jazz · Craft spirits · Coffee by day 166 Ratchapakhinai Road, Si Phum, Old Town The entrance tells you nothing. A nondescript, narrow alley off Ratchapakhinai Road, no sign, leading to what looks like a small open-air coffee shop. It’s pleasant
The Algonquin
Private members’ club Location: undisclosed — revealed upon booking confirmation You won’t find The Algonquin. There is no sign, no marked door, no indication that anything exists here at all. The location is a secret. Swipe a card in the right place
Gladwell
Premier cocktails 247 Mun Mueang Road, Si Phum, Old Town You will walk past Gladwell. Everyone does. From the street it’s a brightly lit commercial building entrance next to a bank, with a single oversized white sliding door plastered with rock band
Noir
Live jazz • Craft cocktails Charoen Prathet Road, behind Melodic CNX (near the Night Bazaar) Noir isn’t hiding from you. It just doesn’t care if you find it. There’s no secret knock, no enter-through-a-phone-booth gimmick — it’s simply at the back of
White Rabbit
Speakeasy • Cocktails 179/1 Floor 2, Phrapokklao Road, Si Phum (near the North Gate) Follow the rabbit. That’s the only instruction you get. Down a short alley off Phrapokklao Road near the North Gate, up a couple of flights of creaky stairs in
Bar Not Found
Cocktails • DJ nights 161, 90-91 Sri Phum, Tambon Si Phum, Muang, Chiang Mai 50200 (just north of the old town) Bar Not Found is the opposite of everything you’d expect from a hidden bar. No dark corners, no jazz, no cigar
Cru 2nd Floor
Wine bar • Tapas • Live jazz 8-10 Samlarn Road, Phra Singh, Old Town (opposite Phra Singh Post Office) Walk past Wat Phra Singh toward the post office. The passage is directly opposite — turn right down it, past a postcard shop,
Bar San
Japanese-Scandinavian cocktails · Small plates 73 1 Charoen Prathet Rd, Chang Khlan Sub-district, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai 50100 Bar San is the bar that The Infatuation tells you to visit first when bar-hopping in Chiang Mai. There's a reason for
North Country
Speakeasy · Craft cocktails · Heritage building 2nd Floor, 23 Tha Phae Road, Chang Moi Sub-district, Amphoe Mueang Chiang Mai, Chang Wat Chiang Mai 50300 Up the back stairs of a 130-year-old teakwood mansion near Tha Phae Gate, a candle-lit room is