Hair of the Dog (Phloen Chit)

This is where Hair of the Dog started, in 2015, founded by Canadians Mike MacDonald — also behind Mikkeller Bangkok — and Pete Spalding. It sits on the 2nd floor of Mahatun Plaza and is the smaller, darker and more local of the group's two Bangkok bars: a single compact room that BK Magazine once described as "a miniscule, bare concrete room" with surgical lighting above the bar and mortuary slabs doubling as tables. It works as an after-work beer room rather than a destination venue, and it is all the better for it.

Thirteen rotating taps pour imported craft — heavily US, Scandinavian and European — with Thai and regional beer alongside, backed by a large walk-in beer fridge holding hundreds of bottles and cans for drinking in or taking away, with a takeaway discount of around 20%. The taps were recently refitted with Czech side-pour. Staff are pitched as "beeristas" and will talk you through the list; cocktails are served too. Food is bar snacks only — for anything more substantial, the Phrom Phong branch has a full restaurant floor.

The bar closed for more than 18 months during the pandemic and reopened on 28 January 2022, using the downtime for renovations. Co-founder Pete Spalding described it as expanding the bar, adding more fridges and seats, and building "a whole new area for those that like to drink gin with their beer" — a gin corner rather than the separate gin bar the Phrom Phong site has upstairs.

The group has won BK Magazine's best beer bar two years running through 2025, and was previously RateBeer's top craft beer spot in Thailand and second in Asia two years in a row. Location is exceptional: under 100m from BTS Phloen Chit, which makes this one of the most transit-convenient craft beer bars in central Bangkok. The crowd is CBD office workers, Phloen Chit and Langsuan residents and committed regulars, with noticeably fewer tourists than Phrom Phong. Note it opens evenings only and is dark on Sundays — the only one of the two branches that closes a day.

Opening Hours
Monday – Saturday: 5pm – midnight (or later)
Closed Sundays