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AELA Social Bar has opened on Sukhumvit Soi 18 with its own entrance and a cocktail list crafted around emotion as well as flavour. A Journey Through States, drawn from the district’s nightscape, gathers 16 signatures into four states of perception, from the fruit and citrus of Arrival to Release, where Thai herbs and spices rework spirit-forward classics in drinks such as Temple of Memory and Bangkok After Dark.

In between, Orientation toys with expectation: tropical aromas without the fruit, espresso richness without the bean, in Tropical Fiction and Espresso Without Espresso. Ground, home to Origin and After Rain, reaches for koji, pandan, mango and coconut cream among other Thai and Asian ingredients.

Liquid Thinking is the bar’s name for the philosophy, and the creative force behind the cocktails is Beverage & Bars Manager Alexander Falcetelli Makarov, Russian-born, raised in Italy and with an engineering background. “The best cocktails aren’t just tasted; they’re remembered,” he says.

The room is conceived as a living piece of crystal: light moving across reflective surfaces and crystal glassware, from a curved wall of lit glass panels to stemware racked above the bar. Reflection is the bar’s metaphor for company.

Our Assistant Digital Editor, @kaloklao, was on the scene.

A daytime lounge that turns into a cocktail bar after dark, AELA Social Bar is open daily from 9 am to midnight, with entrances on Soi 18 and, through @fairmontbangkok, on Soi 20.

Reservations and enquiries: +66 2 407 1300.

@aela.bkk

#RobbReportThailand #AELASocialBar #FairmontBangkok by @robbreportth

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The World Gourmet Festival, now in its 26th edition, keeps Bangkok where it belongs: among the great food cities of the world. Nine of Thailand’s 43 Michelin-starred restaurants put a chef on this year’s programme, at Anantara Siam Bangkok from 29 September to 4 October, and the chefs cooked alongside guests from cities including Singapore, Santa Monica, Bogotá, Rome, Vienna, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Cotonou. The festival has been bringing chefs to Bangkok since long before Michelin published its first guide to the city, in December 2017.

Ten chefs opened it on 29 September with a celebration in the Grand Ballroom, and guest bartenders from bars across Asia poured at AQUA all week.

First, three visitors each had a kitchen to themselves. Julien Royer, whose Odette in Singapore has three Michelin stars, cooked at Madison, the hotel’s New York-style steakhouse, on 30 September; Álvaro Clavijo, whose El Chato topped Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2025, cooked at Guilty the next night. Both dinners sold out, as did Dave Pynt’s at Madison and Eunjung Cho’s three afternoon teas in the Lobby.

Then the kitchens were shared. On Saturday 3 October it came in threes, two visiting chefs and one from Bangkok in each of three restaurants: Madison paired Santa Monica and Vienna with Bangkok; Spice Market, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City with Bangkok; Guilty, Cotonou and Rome with Bangkok. The Bangkok chef in each cooks in a Michelin-starred restaurant.

Saturday’s other headliner was Thai. A mango sticky rice 101.15 metres long, set on banana leaves, earned the hotel the @guinnessworldrecords title for the longest in the world, and Heros De Agostinis, who cooks at INEO in Rome, was among the chefs who helped put it together. On Sunday, fittingly for a hotel long known for its brunch, the week closed with one at Parichart Court.

Our Editor-in-Chief, @tasukon, finds what the festival does best in those Saturday trios: two visitors and a Bangkok chef cooking side by side, the spotlight shared three ways.

Images: @anantarasiambangkok | @worldgourmetfestivalbkk

#RobbReportThailand #WorldGourmetFestivalBangkok #AnantaraSiam #TheWorldOfFlavours taken in Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel by @robbreportth

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One Bangkok Retail has given golf a runway. At One Bangkok Urban Golf Club, ten brands, from BOSS and Cole Haan to Adidas and New Era, outfitted the game for the city. Golf, says One Bangkok‘s Chief Retail Officer, Palinee Kongchansiri, has gone beyond sport: it now reflects fashion, identity and community, and the complex is positioning itself as a golf lifestyle destination.

Our Assistant Digital Editor, @kaloklao, was on the scene. Sarit Suwannarut, a Thai professional golfer and two-time Asian Tour winner, had beginners in mind, advising them to start with a love of the game, try clubs before buying a full set, and dress for the heat in breathable fabrics; golf, he added, takes time. Actor Top Todsapol Maisuk said there is no need to choose the best equipment on the market, and fellow actor Foei Patara Eksangkul advised finding what suits one’s swing. Only Golf, one of the ten brands, offers expert club fitting.

LENGOLF, a premium indoor golf simulator and bar for professionals and newcomers alike, follows at One Bangkok Retail towards the end of the year, its bar ready to serve as the nineteenth hole.

From 30 September to 31 October 2026, One Bangkok members can redeem discounts and prizes worth THB 1.6 million at participating brands‘ shops. The three highest-spending members also receive a stay-and-golf package at Toscana Valley, Khao Yai, valued at up to THB 96,000 (terms apply).

@one_bangkok @foeifoeii @toptodsapol

#RobbReportThailand #OneBangkokUrbanGolfClub #OneBangkokRetail #OneBangkok by @robbreportth

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Loro Piana has set Solutions For, its Spring/Summer 2027 men’s and women’s collection, in a Milan library, with the bags on ladders, the scarves arranged in walnut cases and poems beside the sketches. The season is organised by need: warmth, life outdoors, golf days, evenings, early getaways and beach days.

Our Editor-in-Chief, @tasukon, hears the idea behind the title in Sergio Loro Piana’s own words, as his widow, Luisa, recalled them to System magazine in January 2025: “I don’t do fashion; I give my friends and clients elegant solutions.” The family’s first venture into clothing, she says, was the Horsey Jacket of 1992, made for Italy’s equestrian squad at the Barcelona Games, and the rest grew from it.

Among the men’s archetypes are the camel blazer, the balmacaan coat, the trench coat and the safari field jacket; the women’s take in the camel blazer, the little black dress and the cape. For summer, men get Bermuda shorts and linen trousers on a drawstring; women get a crochet ensemble, an apron dress or a silk pyjama. The accessories include a Heddle tote, a Pioneer backpack and a golf-inspired derby for men, and a new size of the Loom and the Sunday Walk sneaker for women.

The presentation, part of Milan Fashion Week, was held at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, inside Palazzo di Brera; founded in 1770, the library opened to the public in 1786. The Sala Maria Teresa, which Giuseppe Piermarini created in 1785 in honour of the empress, holds her portrait and canvas panels edged in Kummel, the house’s own colour, each with a sketch of an archetype. Among the panels, one for the camel blazer reads “A Solution For Natural Authority” and another “A Solution For Following Your Goals”, each finishing the sentence that the title begins. Beyond that room, the reading room is a lounge with four tables on the craft behind the clothes.

The men’s collection carries Rain System and Storm System treatments on trenches, blousons, bombers, and overshirts, and colours named for things grown or foraged, including Pomegranate peel, Fruity quince, Glazed chanterelle, and Fig branch.

Images: @loropiana

#RobbReportThailand #LoroPiana #SolutionsFor #LoroPianaSS27 by @robbreportth

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KROMO Bangkok, Curio Collection by Hilton, begins its second year by changing what is inside its cabinet of wonders.

The hotel was designed as one, after the nine gems in Bangkok’s full name; the backlit panels at Vilah, its tenth-floor creative social space, refer to cat’s-eye chrysoberyl. KROMO Curations, a rotating programme of art and lifestyle events, is how the contents change.

Series 1 is by Dr Anchana Nangkala, an artist from Nakhon Si Thammarat: oils on linen, made for the anniversary, of tropical rainforest flowers, with Claude Monet’s influence filtered through her own colour and composition. The works are on view at Vilah until the end of October and can be reserved.

At Colette, the French bistro, the bar’s new collection, A Journey Through France’s Wine Landscapes, sets eight wine regions beside Thai ingredients. Sud-Ouest, for the French Basque Country, runs from pineapple and coconut by way of gentle Piment d’Espelette heat to a finish of peated whisky smoke.

Every stay until 31 October earns a chance in the Lucky Draw at the Cabinet of Wonders: a room, an upgrade, food and drink vouchers, souvenirs.

Our Assistant Digital Editor, @kaloklao, was on the scene.

Rooms and the Lucky Draw: +66 2 078 8488, kromobangkok.com.

@kromobangkok @colette.bangkok

#RobbReportThailand #KROMOBangkok by @robbreportth

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What does the modern luxury traveller expect from an airport lounge?

For Song Hoi See, Founder and CEO of Plaza Premium Group, the answer goes beyond comfort and convenience. It is about creating an experience that reflects the destination itself.

Following the grand opening of Plaza Premium First and Plaza Premium Lounge at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on 29 September, Robb Report Thailand‘s Assistant Digital Editor @kaloklao sat down with the hospitality pioneer to discuss the changing expectations of global travellers and the significance of Thailand in the Group’s vision.

Having introduced the world‘s first independent airport lounge concept in 1998, Plaza Premium Group continues to rethink the airport experience. Its latest Bangkok lounges bring together personalised hospitality, contemporary Thai craftsmanship and locally inspired dining, from Northern-style Khao Soi to a Tom Yum-inspired Siamese Martini.

Watch our exclusive conversation with Song Hoi See as he shares his perspective on the future of airport hospitality and the importance of creating a lasting sense of place.

@plazapremiumlounge

#RobbReportThailand #PlazaPremiumFirst #PlazaPremiumLounge #LuxuryTravel #AirportHospitality by @robbreportth

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Asked for the one watch that best embodies Piaget, its Global Ambassador Apo Nattawin names the Polo 79, “as of right now”. Our Assistant Digital Editor, @kaloklao, sat down with him at the Piaget Symposium during Siam Paragon Bangkok Watch Week 2026, a session led by Pierre Guerrier, Business Developer and Watchmaking Expert.

Apo defines the Maison today in four parts: individuality, ultra-thin design, the overall silhouette and, most importantly, the gemstones Piaget chooses to use. The Polo 79 in white gold with a sodalite dial holds three of them. Piaget says the stone is the first ornamental one used on the revived Polo 79, the 1200P1 movement behind it is 2.35 mm thick, and the integrated bracelet supplies the silhouette. Apo adds that it strikes “a perfect balance” for casual and formal occasions.

Luxury, he says, is loving and believing in who you are; above all, paying attention to the details in everything you do makes you more luxurious still.

Piaget named the Polo in 1979. Forty-seven years on, Apo chooses the Polo 79 to stand for the Maison.

@piaget
@apo555
@siamparagonshopping
@bangkokwatchweek

#RobbReportThailand #Piaget #BangkokWatchWeek by @robbreportth

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Dib Bangkok’s second exhibition treats artworks as living things: they breathe, grow, decay and change.

Giving Life ชีวิต ชีวา opened on 26 September at Dib Bangkok, with more than 160 works from 33 artists. The museum, less than a year old, is on TIME’s list of the World’s Greatest Places of 2026. Founding Chairman Purat “Chang” Osathanugrah describes the show as a celebration of a museum “alive and here to stay”, and expects visitors to find “unexpected joy alongside something deep.”

On Level 1, many works move: Paul Chan’s fan-driven nylon figures appear to act on their own, and Rachel Youn builds sculptures from objects including shiatsu massagers and Chi swings.

In January 1975, as the Vietnam War was ending, Calder’s Circus was shown at the Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art, an event Dib counts as the first showing of his art in the country. Level 2 begins with that history: more than 60 archival items on how performance, installation and conceptual art developed in Thailand in the second half of the twentieth century.

The floor ends with Nawin Nuthong’s Project 147 (๑๔๗), the inaugural CHANEL Gateway Commission.

Level 3 turns to death and rebirth, with Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s work in conversation with Anselm Kiefer’s and Montien Boonma’s. Chang sees artists across the show who have taken the scars of war, from the Middle East to Vietnam, and “transformed those painful moments into something beautiful and positive.” Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Tremor, made from materials associated with unexploded ordnance, takes up the same subject.

Our Editor-in-Chief, @tasukon, contends that the 1975 archive gives the Calder in the Chapel its context: it shows the Bangkok art scene his work arrived in, and how far that scene has come.

Curator Ariana Chaivaranon calls Giving Life “a love letter to artists, to writers, to people who create”, in a world where it is “all too easy, all too cheap to destroy.”

The exhibition runs at 111 Soi Sukhumvit 40 until 3 May 2027.

Images: @dibbangkok

#RobbReportThailand #DibBangkok #GivingLife #ชีวิตชีวา taken in Dib Bangkok by @robbreportth

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