Guides and journal
58 guides, written from behind the counter.
Guides to the city's bars and bands, built from Google's own data and named reviews, checked on the date at the top of each page. Then the journal: nights, staff and the band, only when there is something true to say.
The bar
The bar.
KQ's own pages: the seats, the band, each night of the week, and what people ask at the counter.
The stage-side seats: three metres from the drummer
A seat map of the bar, what each row sounds like, and the time each goes on every night of the week.
MHz Band Thailand: six nights, one stage
Who they are, how the three sets run, how a request works, and the seats beside them.
Tonight at KQ, night by night
Band Tuesday to Sunday, DJ Monday, and a page for each night with its own edge.
Asked at the counter
Twenty-odd questions people ask Min while she does the bill, answered plainly.
Gallery: what it looks like from our side
Fifteen photographs, captioned with what and where, and the two we still owe.
Videos: the band from three metres
Four short clips from the bar's own page, shot from the tables and the counter.
Golf societies: the bar is the clubhouse
How a Pattaya society works, what a visitor does to play, and a society night beside the stage.
Guinness on draft, two minutes from LK Metro
The only tap inside Las Vegas Beer Garden: the pour, when the counter is quiet, and the six nearby places that list Guinness.
The location guide: walk to the stage, look right
The full find-us guide, with the plan of the hall, the walk from LK Metro and the pin.
Where is KQ Bar? The short answer
Inside Las Vegas Beer Garden on Soi Diana, the last bar on the right, beside the stage.
KQ Bar on Google, in their words
What the reviews say about the seats, the pour and the staff, quoted as written.
Groups, birthdays and societies
Message a number and a time and the tables by the stage are held. No deposit, no cover.
The complex
The complex.
Las Vegas Beer Garden from the back: how the ten bars work, our review, and what Google's reviews say.
Inside Las Vegas Beer Garden
How the ten bars work, from the gate to the stage, and where to sit for what.
Our review of the complex
A night in it, bar by bar, with the disclosure that we run the tenth.
What Google reviews say about the hall
The forty reviews of the complex and the nine of KQ, and which bar each one means.
The streets and areas
The streets and areas.
Every bar Google lists, ranked by a rule you can check, street by street.
LK Metro bars: all of them, ranked
Every bar within three hundred metres of the lane, and the ninety-second walk to the stage.
Soi Buakhao bars: the whole street, ranked
The street where the city drinks, bar by bar, with the live rooms and Tree Town.
Soi Diana, hour by hour
Our own soi at two, six, eight and midnight, and what is on it.
Tree Town: the night market that drinks
The courtyard bar by bar, the food, the pool game, and the walk to the stage.
Walking Street: see it once, late, ranked
What the strip is, when to go, and every bar and club Google lists on it.
Not Walking Street: the ranked alternatives
Every bar rated 4.5 or better from three hundred reviews, with the strip removed.
Soi 6: the plain answer, and the rooftops
What the soi is, the bars Google lists on it, and the rooftops at its end.
Soi 7 and Soi 8: the old bar sois, ranked
The two lanes between Second Road and the beach, bar by bar.
Pattaya Beach at night
Sunset, a plate, a band, then inland: every bar on Beach Road and the sand, ranked.
Jomtien at night: quieter, longer, ranked
Every bar Google lists in Jomtien, and when to come north for the band.
Six bar complexes. One has a roof.
Tree Town, LK Metro, Myth Night, Soi 7 and 8, the Beer Bar Complex, and the hall, compared.
Two beer gardens. Neither is a garden.
Pattaya Beer Garden and Las Vegas Beer Garden, the pier and the hall, compared honestly.
By the kind of night
By the kind of night.
Bars grouped by what you want from the night, each list built from Google's numbers.
Pattaya nightlife, sorted by the night you want
Six kinds of night, six areas, and a ranked guide for each.
Live music in Pattaya: who plays what, and where
Twenty-six venues with a band, grouped by what you will hear, with hours and named reviews.
Live bands in Pattaya: who actually plays
The house bands by name and night, then every venue with a band, ranked.
Rock bars in Pattaya, and the songs they play
Every room Google lists, ranked, with the set lists reviewers wrote down.
Jazz in Pattaya: there isn't any
The honest answer, and the rooms Google offers when you ask anyway.
DJ bars and clubs in Pattaya, ranked
The clubs kept apart from the bars, and the one night our stage is a DJ's.
The best bars in Pattaya, by what you want from the night
Chosen by a rule you can check: a Google rating of 4.5 or more from at least three hundred reviews.
Sports bars in Pattaya, ranked. Ours is not one.
Every sports bar within two kilometres, and the honest line about our screens.
Pubs in Pattaya: all of them, ranked
The English taverns, the sports pubs, and the ones near LK Metro.
Irish pubs in Pattaya, and which one is right tonight
Every Irish pub, nearest first, with hours, what regulars order, and the one that closed.
Beer bars in Pattaya: what one is, and all of them
The six parts of a beer bar, where they cluster, and every one Google lists.
Cocktail bars in Pattaya, ranked
Every one Google lists, and the one a hundred metres up our soi.
Rooftop bars in Pattaya, from the ground floor
Every roof Google lists, ranked, with the sea-side ones and the dress codes.
Outdoor bars: sea, sky, courtyard
Beach bars, rooftops and the courtyards around Soi Buakhao, ranked.
Bars reviewers call cold
Eight rooms where a named reviewer felt the air-conditioning, and the honest open-air list.
Who is still open at three
Closing times from Google's hours, and the bars within a walk still pouring at 3 AM.
By who you are
By who you are.
The same city, planned for the person reading.
For singles: sit at the counter
Eight rooms where the room is the point, chosen from behind a counter.
For couples: the table for two by the stage
A night in clock order from sunset to the walk home by the sea.
Over 50: the Thursday table
Six rooms from behind the counter our Thursday regulars sit at.
Things to do in Pattaya at night, in clock order
Twelve things from the sunset at six to the late set at one.
Thai bar etiquette: the bin, the bell, and the rest
Ten things nobody explains until you get one wrong.
How many bars are in Pattaya?
The ones we can count, by street and by kind, with the method.
Pattaya vs Bangkok: eight rounds
Scored honestly by a bar in Pattaya, which is the joke and the point.
By the time of year
By the time of year.
What the town does and what the bar does, for the nights people plan around.
High season, low season, and the nights between
What each season does to a band, a table and a cold room.
Songkran in Pattaya
A week of water, and a dry, cold hall with a band at the end of it.
Loy Krathong in Pattaya
The krathongs on the beach, the moon over the bay, and the band an hour later.
Christmas in Pattaya
The bars are open, the band is on, and the hall is cold enough to feel like December.
New Year's Eve in Pattaya
The countdown at the pier, the fireworks over the bay, and the seat to be in after.
ภาษาไทย
ภาษาไทย.
The home, tonight and where-is-KQ pages in Thai.
How to find us
Then come and find us.
One way in, one way out. Nine bars stand between the gate and us, and each will invite you in. Keep walking.
Come in from Soi Diana
The big Las Vegas Beer Garden sign, two minutes from LK Metro. Free entry, no ticket, no dress code.
Walk straight up the middle
Past Pocket Kings, Palace, the V Bar, Full House, Viva, Aces High, MGN and Black Jack. The music gets louder with every step.
At the stage, look right
A black disc ringed with bulbs, a gold crown over the K. That's the door. The toilets are just past it, which is why everyone walks by at least once.
Or let your phone do it
KQ has its own pin on Google Maps, separate from the complex. Tap it and the blue dot ends at our bar, not the front gate.
Open KQ Bar in Maps