Restaurants Potong, Nusara and Chop Chop Cook Shop lead multi-storey dining trend in Bangkok

BANGKOK restaurants are looking up. Literally.

Conventional dining goes something like this: a restaurant feeds you on one level, and if they have the space, maybe you’ll get dessert or cocktails upstairs. Innovative restaurateurs in the Thai capital are going one, no, several floors up, taking over entire buildings – usually heritage buildings with a backstory – and crafting entire narratives that might start with a drink on the ground floor, canapes on the rooftop, and everything else in between.

Multi-storey dining concepts are not new in other parts of the world. Singapore has Zen, for example. But in Bangkok, rich history and innovative cooking are a powerful combination.