As far as I can tell, most of the nice hotels have at least a roof top bar, so there are lots of choices. The roof top experience was on our list of things to do, so when our friends offered to have their driver take us all downtown for the night, we were in. They're new too, so we weren't really sure how to pick a place to go. We used the Bangkok Guide, and ended up at the Vertigo Grill which is in the Banyan Tree Hotel and also has the Moon Bar. The two parts take up pretty much the entire roof of the building.
Unfortunately, it's not covered, and it was raining when we got there, so they seated us downstairs for a while to start. I ordered a caipirinha, and I had a moment where I worried I was drunk before I had even started drinking.
After some initial teasing, the rest of the group confirmed that my glass was slanted on the bottom, causing the whole drink to tip precariously. Not sure about the motivation for doing this, other than the tipsy factor.
We stayed downstairs for appetizers,
but then our highly energetic waiter came to enthusiastically tell us that we could now sit on the roof, since the rain had stopped, and they had dried everything off. We ditched our downstairs table, which only had a view out a floor to ceiling window, and headed for the roof.
Our waiter had to slow his pace, because as soon as we got out there, we had to stop for photo ops.
The food was fine, but way overpriced. We decided we didn't mind for this time, but next time we would just do drinks and munchies at the Moon Bar. It was hard to mind about much of anything, since we had good company, good drinks, and a fantastic view. On the way home we all agreed that this was the first of many roof top nights out.
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