Blue Elephant

Jewelry designer Elizabeth Locke, a frequent traveler to Bangkok, recommends this classic, saying, “It’s beautiful and has great service, and the staff will understand if someone wants to order a Diet Coke. It’s on Sathorn Road, and any concierge will know it.” Part of the Blue Elephant group, a collection of Thai restaurants whose original outpost opened in 1980, Bangkok’s Blue Elephant is housed in a Colonial-era mansion, and the menu offers a modern twist on traditional Thai cuisine. There’s a cooking school on the premises as well, in case you want to learn to prepare those rice paper–wrapped prawns or that juicy tamarind-flavored duck you just ate.