Sukhumvit 31 The neighbourhood guide
The interior of an art gallery with works on the walls

Shops on Soi 31

Shop on Sukhumvit Soi 31

Soi 31 leans more to the table than the till, and what retail there is leans creative: art galleries, a concept store built on buying fewer better things, a record shop and listening room, a Thai fashion flagship, a designer eyewear boutique, a terrarium studio, and the imported grocery that expats have relied on for decades. The big department stores of the Em District sit a few minutes away at Phrom Phong.

7 places

The Public House design hotel facade on Soi 31, with its tiled frontage and tiger artwork

Stay on the soi

Wake up in the middle of it all

Most of Soi 31 is a taxi ride from where visitors usually sleep. Public House is the one design hotel right on the street, so the coffee, the dinners and the bars on this list are already on your doorstep.