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Chiang Mai is not just a tourist destination with rich Lanna culture and customs, but it also has a vibrant nightlife to offer, best appreciated at its finest bars with the right view and a tipple that you may experience from nowhere before. Discover the best spots to unwind and enjoy the night out in the city in Chiang Mai in different vibes and styles to suit your taste.
Introduction to Chiang Mai’s Bar Scene
When people think of Chiang Mai, their first thoughts may include the bustling tourist area with a plethora of Thai handicrafts, high mountains, and scenic views. However, if someone is just planning a day trip, there are plenty of world-famous nightclubs to choose from, as well as relaxed bars and live music venues in the old city and places along the Ping River offering some of the best views in the city. After going out to visit temples, markets, and lively streets, it’s the right time to hang out at night, which will end your day with happiness! The greatest bars in Chiang Mai are listed here, where you may have a relaxing drink or dance the night away.
Zoe IN Yellow
If you want to shake off the serenity you let yourself to sink into during the most enjoyable hours under linear array lights with the DJs lifting your spirits after a demanding day, let’s go dance among the crowd at Zoe IN Yellow. It’s split into two areas: air-conditioned indoor and outdoor pubs. However, those who want a second option will visit in the late hours of the night before it closes. It features well-known pictures in a contemporary aesthetic and is glitzy, colorful, and stylish.
- Unique Drinks and Specialties
Here you can find a varied drinks and specialties:
- Signature Cocktail: Gin’s Elder, Zoe Sour, Zoe Classic, and Zoe in Yellow
- Zoe Intersection Buckets: Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light, and Jaem Aa-rom
- Standard Cocktail: Magarita, Sex in the Beach, Pina Colada, Caipirinha/Caipiroska, and Black/White
- Special Cocktail: Cuba Libre, Base on Passion, Route 66, Sailor Mojito, Amber Rose, Solerno Sky Cooler, Milagro Blue Rita
- Beer and Wine: Weihenstephaner Vitus, Red Truck Red Ale, Blossom Weizen, and Ping River Pilsner
- Shots: Rainbow and Lefee Absinthe
- Classic Cocktail: Negroni, Old Fashioned, and Whiskey Sour
It is perfect combo to eat with fresh shrimp in fish sauce and mixed (French fries, nuggets, crispy chicken)
- Live Music and Entertainment
All guests have been charmed with the international hit pop and hip-hop combination of songs that awaken and tempt them to join the throng and DJs in front of the bar till midnight! The entertainment at this location has won over hearts! You should definitely give it a try when you’re in the old city because of the incredible light, sound, and people.
Warm Up Café
Here the bar that gathers a selection of areas in which to enjoy DJs playing EDM & live music bands in one place at trendy Nimman road.
- Unique Drinks and Specialties
One of the most interesting drinks that you should not miss are the special cocktails made by Warm Up’s secret recipe called the gourmet cocktail, including CNX, The Passion, and Casper, and you can see other special beverages below.
- Absolute Cocktails
- Seagram’s Whisky
- Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Wine
- Single Malt
- Draft’s Beer (Sinha, Asahi)
It’s time to try a range of Thai and fusion cuisine, from delicious appetizers to main courses, like cheese-wrapped fried dumplings, fried chicken with herbs, warm-up spicy noodle salad, Thai crying tiger steak (Suea Rong Hai), three-flavor salmon, and more!
- Live Music and Entertainment
Because of the live bands that play every night and the top Chiang Mai DJs who spin three different zones—the inside club, the outdoor cafe with indie, rock, and other exciting bands, and the lounge where DJs spin house, dance, and drum and bass mixed Thai and English songs—it is one of the most well-liked bars in Chiang Mai for both locals and visitors.
Beer Lab
Another one on Nimman Road is Beer Lab, where a vast selection of beers awaits your sampling if you’re a beer enthusiast. They feature one of the biggest variety of beers in the northern regions, with over 200 beers from all over the world and 15 beers on tap. It’s perfect place to get chilled that has been opened over 10 years!
- Unique Drinks and Specialties
As the name implies, there are a ton of beers available here that satisfy beer aficionados’ needs from several nations for guaranteed drinks, and some beverages are served in the laboratory glassware.
- Special Taplists
- HAKEA
- NEGITORO
- EXPELLIARMUS
- PINKY BLENDERS
- MILILANI RED
- STOAL TALL
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- Draught Beer
- White/Weizen: Hoegaarden Original, Vedette Extra White, and Kronenbourg
- Stoute: Guinness
- Fruit Beer and Cider: Hoegaarden Rosee and Bother Toffee Apple
Aside from the lists, you can also find some wine, hybrid beers, ale, and cocktails good to paired with super fries, Lanna platter, spicy seafood salad, sausage & beacon, pizza, Calamari, spaghetti, steak etc.
- Live Music and Entertainment
If you are a football enthusiast, you may watch live games on TV while sipping your preferred beverage. However, ball league season is not yet here; instead, enjoy some fantastic music! so you may relax in a comfortable setting with a western flair that you will adore!
The Good View
Ping River is home to the Good View restaurant and bar, where guests may take in the stunning scenery and nightly live music performances. The inside is furnished with an open, breezy, modern Thai design, making it possible for visitors to completely enjoy the ambience, which is remarkable from every angle and practically a well-known icon of Chiang Mai!
- Unique Drinks and Specialties
Here the unique drinks represented by The Good View that you should try below.
- Signature’s Cocktails: Giant Shooter, Plus Two: Tropical, Blood Orange and Chocolate, Pop Corn, and CNX T&T
There is draft beer, soju, whiskey, house wine, tequila, vodka, rum, cognac, and more!
The Good Will offers a variety of international food, Thai, Chinese, Western, and Japanese, like deep-fried smoke chicken wings, striploin steak served with spicy sauce, calamari, stir-fired fish maw, red curry with roasted duck, oysters with herbs, Khan-toke, and more to taste your buds!
- Live Music and Entertainment
The Good View Bar & Restaurant has live music every day, pleasant service, and karaoke rooms for greater solitude with your companies in various capacities to choose at Good View Karaoke.
The View Bar Chiangmai
The last place that we highly recommend is The View Bar Chiangmai, which has live music bands in a vibrant and modern Thai atmosphere. Perfect to hang out with all food and beverages in one place!
- Unique Drinks and Specialties
There are a variety of drinks to choose from when you visit this spot to spend the night before heading back to your place as follows:
- Draft Beers: Singha and Asahi
- Cognags: Martell
- Whiskies and Thai Whiskies: Johny Walker, Sangsom, Regency, and more.
- Shooters: Rainbow Shots, B-52, Bullet Bourbon, Jim Beam, Jack Daniel’s
- Signature’s Cocktails: Top View, The Pot, Burned Off, Green Bubble, and Flow
The signature’s dishes must be deep fried cashew nuts with crisp shrimps and herbs, imported beef steak served with Jimjaew dipping, steam whole seabass in chili and lime sauce, deep fried The View pork knuckle, pine apple cheese canape, herbal pork sausage, and more.
- Live Music and Entertainment
If you love the 90s, there is music for you to enjoy! Every day, different live bands play music; you can even get to witness the well-known band in Thailand perform live from 7.00 pm. to 00.00 am.
Safety Tips and Nightlife Etiquette
- Always take your passport, as it is essential while visiting pubs and bars overseas. Not only will you be unable to access the pubs and clubs without it, but if a coincidence occurs and you do not have a passport to prove your identification, the situation will become much more chaotic.
- Plan your return trip well. Before you go, you should study the route, both outbound and return. Otherwise, you may waste hours walking lost and have no fun. For this reason, Google Maps is an important factor that you should use to check how to go and how to get back. Calculate the route and transportation costs so that we can reach our destination safely and without worry.
- Know your limitations and do not drink excessively. Do not push your boundaries since being attentive is the most crucial thing when drinking at night. Just understand their limitations how much is acceptable and unacceptable. it will be quite risky if you get drunk on an unfamiliar place.
- Never leave your own glass since the safety of your drink is vital because you never know what someone with malicious intentions would put in it for you to drink. There are many criminals these days, therefore caution is advised. So, no matter where you go when drinking, always have your glass with you.
- Show respect for personal space. Regardless of how busy dance floors are, it is critical to respect other people’s personal space to the greatest extent feasible. Everyone hates an unexpected bump or shove while trying to enjoy their favorite song.
Enjoy a pleasant and safe night out at Chiang Mai’s greatest bars. The first crucial thing to consider is your safety, as we mentioned in our suggestions for a worry-free night out. Let’s make the most of the night to create unforgettable memories with these clubs!
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