The Brick Bar is welded into the back of the Buddy Hotel shopping mall mezzanine, a posh hotel by traveler standards and at the right end of Khaosan Road, meaning at the opposite end from the police station. And this is one busy bar, thanks mainly to the fact that it is literally at the heart of the Thai tourist industry by default.
The Brick Bar has been featuring live music since its first opened, and the music menu is fairly eclectic in as much as the bar features blues, reggae, pop and ska on different evenings and the bands are a mix of local Thai outfits with just a few farang bands chucked in. The Soi Dog Blues Band play here to a full house Mondays fronted by genial Dane Jeff Thomsen and the night we were there – Tuesday – we heard a mixture of pop, blues and ska in the company of young Thais, retired UK civil servants, a table full of Bratislavan sledge designers and a variety of visitors from parts of the world I have never heard of.
But the bar is really a truly impressive red brick baronial hall of splendid proportions with a massive ground floor, huge wooden tables and matching benches, cushioned nukes and crannies, a very long bar, a pool table, fussball and room to happily accommodate 400 punters. Upstairs is reached by two staircases and it is huge up here too with room for 200 more, with another pool table, two pinball machines, its own toilets and its own bar. Very impressive and beautifully constructed with cool woods and great art. And you know someone has looked at Saxophone Bar and others like it to plan and design this great bar – potentially one of the world’s best.
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