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Telephone Pub

Historic Venue 1987 Still active

Bangkok's oldest continuously operating gay bar — Telephone Pub at Silom Soi 4 since 1987.

Google (208) 4.2
Tripadvisor (46) 4.9
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Address
176/4 Si Lom, Bangkok 
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Phone
66 84 001 2202
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Website
www.telephonepub.com
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About this place Telephone Pub

Telephone Pub opened at 114/11-13 Silom Soi 4 in 1987 as Bangkok's first dedicated gay bar on Silom Road. It is Bangkok's oldest continuously operating gay bar — 38 years of unbroken service — and among the very earliest openly-marketed gay bars in Southeast Asia. The pub's founding gimmick — from which the name derives — was table telephones. Each of the roughly 40 tables carries a telephone connected to every other table in the room; patrons dial each other's tables to introduce themselves. The system was novel in 1987, familiar by 2005, and by the 2020s functions as a piece of nostalgic operational theatre that regulars love. The phones continue to work and are still used. Telephone Pub anchors the Silom Soi 4 gay nightlife strip by both physical location (the storefront is directly at the alley's central corner) and continuous operation. Its role in Bangkok queer history is inseparable from Silom Soi 4's development — the pub predates the alley's gay-street identity by roughly seven years, and every subsequent queer venue on the alley opened around it. Open daily from 18:00 to 01:00. No cover. Sala Daeng BTS is five minutes' walk. The pub is small — one long ground-floor room with a sidewalk terrace — and the atmosphere depends on the specific night; weekends are packed, weekdays are quiet and social. Combine with a walk through Silom Soi 4's other Balcony, DJ Station and Stranger venues for a Bangkok gay-heritage evening.

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Gay Gay-friendly (straight venue) Casual Food served

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Noah
Noah Jul 2024

Lovely staff Great atmosphere I always enjoy my time here

Banana Channel
Banana Channel Jul 2022

I visited this restaurant back in the 2010s. The atmosphere was great, the decor was beautiful, and all the staff were lovely. The place was reasonably clean.

Alex SP (Alex)
Alex SP (Alex) Dec 2020
Gayby Harry
Gayby Harry Jun 2020

Amazing

男部人
男部人 Feb 2020
Woan Bill
Woan Bill Feb 2020
Indo Traveler
Indo Traveler Jan 2020

Lovely place here in January 21

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Last updated on 3 August 2026

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