Checked against Google on 9 September 2026
Walking Street is a show, and you should see it once. This is the list for the other nights: every bar in the city with a Google rating of 4.5 or better from at least three hundred reviews, ranked, with the strip left out entirely. One of them is ours. It is not first, and we did not move it.
Why the list exists
Walking Street is a car-free canyon of neon, three floors of go-go bars, music from every doorway and a crowd that never thins. It is the reason Pattaya is famous and the reason a lot of people think that is all there is. It is not. Most of the best-rated rooms in the city are somewhere else, and this page is where.
The rule is the same one as our best-bars guide, because a rule you can check beats a list somebody likes: a Google rating of 4.5 or better, from at least three hundred reviews, on 9 September 2026. Then we removed Walking Street. What is left is 27 places sorted into 7 kinds of night, ordered inside each kind by rating times the log of the review count. Our own hall is in there, in the place the numbers put it, which is not the top. The Thai music bars and the sea-view restaurants beat us on Google and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
The top ten, all kinds
Rating times the log of the review count. Numbers on the map match the list below.
Beer made or chosen with care · Google 4.9 from 3,703 · 300 m on foot, about 4 minutes
By the sea · Google 4.8 from 2,562 · 800 m on foot, about 10 minutes
By the sea · Google 4.8 from 2,073 · 700 m on foot, about 9 minutes
By the sea · Google 4.3 from 4,736 · 1350 m on foot, about 17 minutes
A band, loud · Google 4.5 from 1,821 · 1.4 km, a short taxi or baht bus
Beer made or chosen with care · Google 4.9 from 906 · 350 m on foot, about 5 minutes
By the sea · Google 4.8 from 979 · 3.0 km, a short taxi or baht bus
By the sea · Google 4.5 from 1,496 · 900 m on foot, about 11 minutes
By the sea · Google 4.7 from 1,004 · 750 m on foot, about 9 minutes
By the sea · Google 4.6 from 1,068 · 5.4 km, a short taxi or baht bus
By the sea
The sunset seat: a bar-restaurant looking over the bay with a Thai and Western kitchen and a live band after dark. Arrive at six for the light.
What reviewers mention most: the view (364 reviews), sunset view (113), good atmosphere (759).
We were seated outdoor and seaview + winter breeze were just amazing.
Google review · Malinee Ron · November 2025
A long craft list, a rooftop, an Indian kitchen and a band, from breakfast until half past three in the morning.
What reviewers mention most: beer selection (133), live music (104), Indian food (92), sea view (39).
A bar-restaurant on a pier beside Walking Street with the whole bay in front of it, a big Thai and Western menu and a burger with its own name. Not connected to Las Vegas Beer Garden, and people confuse the two.
What reviewers mention most: sea (356), sunset views (119), Thai food (125), draft beer (58).
Sits right on the water adjacent to walking street. At night you get a panoramic view of the beach.
Google review · Ryan Mogensen · December 2025
A daytime and early-evening place on the cliff at Cozy Beach: brunch, cocktails, the sea, and a nine-thirty close. Building work in front of it in 2025, according to one review.
What reviewers mention most: the view (149), atmosphere (413), sea view (38).
One of the best places i've been to so far in Pattaya, down to the food, the cocktails, the atmosphere.
Google review · JULIAN J · July 2026
The rooftop everyone photographs, with a cocktail list, live music at sunset and a booking system you should use.
What reviewers mention most: sunset view (115), cocktails (232), rooftop bar (40).
Do book well in advance though, hotel guests tend to get the good tables before hand.
Google review · Conor Knowles · February 2026
Above Beach Road with the beach in front, cocktails made properly, an Italian and Thai kitchen and live music most evenings.
What reviewers mention most: live music (82), beach view (37), lovely staff (41).
You can sit and enjoy the beach view while eating/drinking.
Google review · S S · February 2026
A seaside skybar in Jomtien with DJs, a fire show and a dress code, and a service charge on top that reviewers mention.
What reviewers mention most: view (156), cocktails (145), DJs (72), sunset views (45).
Top Location, Top Music and Sound, Food is good. Perfect view at evening, dress code required.
Google review · Black Michael · June 2026
The highest rooftop pool and bar in the city, open to people who are not staying in the hotel, with a sunset that reviewers mention before anything else.
What reviewers mention most: view (93), sunset view (33), rooftop bar (18).
It was no problem that we were not hotel guests.
Google review · Johnny Godeyne · December 2025
A DJ bar on the sand at Jomtien with a different DJ each night, pool tables and cocktails; the reviews are about dancing, not dinner.
What reviewers mention most: atmosphere (111), DJs (40), pool tables (15).
They also invite different DJ's every time so one day you will find your style of music.
Google review · A G · January 2026
Beer made or chosen with care
Beer brewed in the building, around fifteen taps of it, a Harry Potter theme, a German kitchen and a live band. The highest-rated bar in the city among those with more than a thousand reviews.
What reviewers mention most: good atmosphere (806), beautiful music (415), live music (228), IPA (62).
The beer is brewed on the spot, plus they have a decent varieties of their own beer on tap (around 15 taps).
Google review · Miha Tochilov · April 2026
A bottle shop with a bar in it, or the other way round: the widest beer list in Pattaya by its own count and by its reviewers', Thai and imported, with a kitchen and quiet screens.
What reviewers mention most: beer selection (169), atmosphere (128), craft beer (81).
Wide selection of hard to find beers.
Google review · J Ryan · July 2026
The Tree Town branch: draught beers by the pint, a rooftop, an Indian kitchen and live music some nights, and calmer than the Beach Road original.
What reviewers mention most: beer selection (87), draught beers (23), Indian food (100), rooftop bar (16).
This beer hub serve great draft beer on pint.
Google review · Zhi Wee · November 2023
The second Beertique, on Beach Road, open later than the original.
Cocktails
A cocktail lounge on Soi Diana, a hundred metres from Las Vegas Beer Garden, with bartenders who compete and win, sofas, and live music nights.
What reviewers mention most: cocktail presentation, cocktail lounge, kind staff.
Even in the USA it is very rare to see this level of craftsmanship.
Google review · Zarko Mladenovic · July 2026
A bartender-show cocktail bar with a DJ and live music, a Bangkok feel, and signature drinks people travel for.
What reviewers mention most: atmosphere, bartender show, live music.
Amazing cocktails, great service and live music what more can you ask for.
Google review · Tee · September 2026
Sport with the sound on
An English pub run by an Englishman called David, with seven large screens, a carvery on Sundays, breakfast from seven, and regulars who have been coming for years.
What reviewers mention most: Sunday roast (118), carvery (84), buffet (66), watching sports (14).
7 large TV screens to watch the games you want.
Google review · Philip Gearing · November 2025
The sports venue with the best rating in the city: your match on the screen nearest your table, pool tables, dart boards, a big British and Australian menu, and a cider list.
What reviewers mention most: pool tables (74), sports viewing (35), screens (20), Guinness (13).
They will put on your requested game on the nearest tv to your seats.
Google review · Red Viking7 · July 2026
The LK Metro sports bar and guesthouse, open from seven in the morning for European and American games, a two-minute walk from Las Vegas Beer Garden.
The Thai night out
Three bands a night, a DJ, an MC and dancers, by its own description; a Thai night out with a car park and a kitchen.
What reviewers mention most: good atmosphere (137), songs (102), delicious food (101).
Great place with a lot of staff, never let down by the band.
Google review · Terence Paiva · January 2024
Dine, drink, dance: a Thai crowd, a DJ, a kitchen, and the highest rating of any nightlife place east of Second Road.
What reviewers mention most: atmosphere (122), songs (95), lovely staff (22).
Thai bands, a DJ set, a local crowd and a table you should book. Loud, and warm when it fills.
What reviewers mention most: local pub (16), beautiful music (14), Thai food (11).
It's really authentic and local. Usually, a band plays Thai songs.
Google review · Kostas Christofis · July 2026
A band, loud
The rock bar of Walking Street: Maiden, Sabbath, Dio and Motörhead from a band that plays every night to an open front.
What reviewers mention most: rock music (71), band (58), hard rock (35).
Awesome bands covering Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, DIO, OZZY, Motorhead.
Google review · FJB McCain · May 2026
Live rock and heavy metal every night from nine, a house band, tribute nights, a kitchen, and no bar girls, as reviewers point out.
What reviewers mention most: live music (175), friendly staff (120), rock bar (36).
The band is really good, you can also request a song with the donation of a small tip.
Google review · Nick · November 2025
Reggae, ska and two-tone with live singers every night, a minute's walk from Las Vegas Beer Garden, and the highest-rated bar on LK Metro.
What reviewers mention most: reggae music (34), live music (21), friendly staff (69).
If you like reggae ska two tone then this is your place.
Google review · James Colman · May 2026
A bar complex
A night market of small bars around a courtyard on Soi Buakhao, with Rock Station and the Beer Hubb branch inside it. Pool tables everywhere, a killer-pool game at Palm Beach Bar, and staff who will talk to you.
What reviewers mention most: pool tables, Tree Town night market, creative cocktails.
Ten bars in one air-conditioned hall with a stage at the far end: a band from Tuesday to Sunday, a DJ on Monday. The front bars meet you at the door; KQ Bar is the last one on the right, beside the stage.
What reviewers mention most: live band, air-conditioning, ten bars.
Two rows of bars on a pedestrian walkway with pool, sport and the same music from every bar, according to one review, and no hassle according to another. Aiden's Thairish Bar is in it.
What reviewers mention most: pool tables, bar complex.
Some good bars here not pushy at all play some pool.
Google review · bruce turner · May 2026
Ours, declared
Las Vegas Beer Garden is one cold hall on Soi Diana with ten bars and a band from nine, Tuesday to Sunday. We are the last bar on the right, beside the stage, and the tables along its edge are ours. Ten minutes from Walking Street by baht bus, and the opposite of it in every way that matters: sitting down, talking, watching a band, and going home at three without having been shouted at once.
The beer night. The brewery at Wizard for a beer brewed in the building, Beertique on Second Road for a list, the Beer Hubb roof on Beach Road for the same with a view, and the hall on Soi Diana for the band. Four rooms, one bus, and the last one has the stage.
The sunset night. A roof on Beach Road at six, Kliff on the headland with the bay below it, the Horizon at the Hilton with the dress code, or Moon Whale, and then east on a bus to the band at nine. The roofs are for an hour and the hall is for a night, and the order is fixed by the sun.
The walking night. Tree Town at seven for the food, LK Metro for the reggae singers at Trench Town, and the hall across Soi Diana for the band and the cold. A kilometre, no bus, and the three kinds of night the city does best that are not the strip.
The quiet night. A Monday. The DJ has the stage, the tables along the stage edge are empty at eight, and Save has time to talk about the pour. Regulars who have done a hundred Fridays come on Mondays for this. It is the night the strip cannot offer at any price, because the strip does not have a quiet.
The strip is one street and the city has a hundred, and the point of this page is the other ninety-nine. The ranking above takes every bar within reach of our counter that Google rates, removes the ones with Walking Street in the address, and ranks what is left by rating weighted by review count, with the rule stated so you can argue with it. The result is a list that puts a brewery, a rooftop and a beer bar above every club on the strip, which is what the reviews say when you ask them the right question.
We are on the list where the numbers put us, which is not at the top, and the hall we are in is on it as one entry because that is how Google lists it. We are the last bar on the right in that hall, beside the stage, and every alternative on this page is at its distance from our counter in the entry. The nearest is two minutes. The strip is two kilometres and a bus, and you can see it once and come back.
Asked
Ratings, review counts and hours are Google's on 9 September 2026; the text and the quotes are from our best-bars guide, where every line traces to a listing or a named review. The rule leaves out good rooms with fewer than three hundred reviews, and we know it. The complex's own site has its own list of alternatives, written as a walk rather than a ranking.
How to find us
One way in, one way out. Nine bars stand between the gate and us, and each will invite you in. Keep walking.
The big Las Vegas Beer Garden sign, two minutes from LK Metro. Free entry, no ticket, no dress code.
Past Pocket Kings, Palace, the V Bar, Full House, Viva, Aces High, MGN and Black Jack. The music gets louder with every step.
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.
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