Silom Soi 4's oldest open-front bar, named for the rotary phones that once let drinkers ring across the room.
Telephone Pub sits at 114/11 Silom Soi 4 in Bang Rak, four minutes from Sala Daeng BTS. The room opened in 1987 and the Bangkok Post's 2024 Silom Soi 4 history feature called it 'the soi's longest-continuously-operating bar', a claim backed by the original rotary-phone tables that gave the room its name.
This is the bar for a drinker who wants a Silom open-front room at B220 and a sidewalk seat for soi-watching, not a B500 cocktail counter. The phones at the tables are decorative now; the seat at the front window is the order.
Walk in or contact the bar via official channels. For weekend table seating, confirm hours through the bar's site or social pages.
The space runs as a long open-front bar with three rows of tables and a small back stage that hosts acoustic sets on Sundays. Time Out Bangkok's 2024 Silom Soi 4 piece described it as 'the only Soi 4 bar with a sidewalk seat worth queuing for'.
The list runs short and the bar runs it on its own terms. Order from the signatures.
Skip the high-build cocktails. The list rewards a B220 mojito or a B180 Singha across a three-hour night.
The crowd is mixed Silom regulars and tourist visitors across the night, with a Bangkok local wave after midnight on Fridays. r/bangkok nightlife threads consistently flag Telephone as the soi's safest first-stop for visitors before the night moves to Stranger or DJ Station.