Late Night Food & Drink Near NEP
[QUOTE=Muttley81;2128678]Coming to Bangkok after a couple of years away and I've been reading some of online guides to Bangkok nightlife. They have said that in early 2017 all the late night street bars and food stalls have been closed down? Great shame if so, used to enjoy those places on walk home from Nana to the hotel if no girls were appealing or I was too tired from exploits earlier in the day. Anything replaced the bars, are there any late night places on walk between Nana and Soi 4?[/QUOTE]I assume that Mr. Muttley's reference to "Nana" means the Nana BTS station. Because, of course, the Nana Plaza is actually on Soi 4.
There isn't much in the way of late night food or drink on the south side of Sukhumvit between the Nana BTS station and Soi 4. There are some street vendors on the sidewalk, but they are selling clothing mainly.
But on Soi 4 itself, there are late night options for food and drink. There are two carts selling noodle soup, one on the east side of Soi 4, very close to the intersection with Sukhumvit, and the other right at the entrance to Nana Plaza. Both are open after the bars close and both have small seating areas on the sidewalk. There are also several food carts on the west side of Soi 4, between the entrance to Nana Plaza and Sukhumvit, selling all the usual street food. Finally, there may be one or two food carts farther south on Soi 4. But they are hit and miss.
As for after hours drinking, that's more difficult. But it's possible. Usually there is a guy with a cooler of beer among the food carts on the west side of Soi 4. The Hillary 4 bar officially closes at 2:00 am But recently they have allowed patrons to sit at the seats overlooking the street after that. Some nights a second guy with a cooler of beer arrives about 2:30 and sells to the folks sitting in front of the bar. In fact, the bar quite helpfully allowed people to come inside and use the toilet.
Bunky.
Update on street Cart Bars
[QUOTE=Muttley81;2129180]Thanks Syzygies, much appreciated. I'm not too bothered if they have ladyboys or younger girls (well, I do care about that, but you get what I mean) as I won't be taking out from street bars. They were only ever convenient to break up walk to hotel, have a bit of food and continue to have a laugh on the way home.
I've been finding that on the guides, some of them are out of date from knowledge I have from my last visit in October 2014! Some of better websites no longer exist at all. Long live ISG![/QUOTE]Very strange last night. A street cart bar that is commonly present, on Soi 23 was already lit up at 9. 45 PM, but only had one girl sitting there to serve drinks, or set it up. I concluded that the other girls would arrive later, and not sure what time they normally open (but definitely late used to be the norm).
I passed by again at about 1 AM. Now the street bar was closed with no girls and no lights. I would have asked what was going on, if anyone was there. However I suspect a police blitz, since several bars in Soi Cowboy had no Neon lights switched on, e. G. Suzie Wong, and some others, while plenty of bars had normal Neon lights on.
Turning the corner from Soi 23 into Sukhumvit and heading towards Asoke, I could see another normal Cart Bar was operating. However did not go there after a problem with a girl at that bar in the past, trying to order drinks that I had not approved.
So I think some Cart bars are operating at times, but it is all a bit iffy. I quite like a bit of fun at Cart bars, but only if they have some very high quality girl(s) that really interest me, and are great fun.
