🍜 Food

Unicorn Café

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok

A gloriously over-the-top pastel fever dream off Silom — rainbow everything, a wall of plush unicorns, sparkly unicorn onesies to borrow, and rainbow spaghetti and candyfloss drinks served under a haze of glitter.

For maximum-sugar, maximum-glitter absurdity, few places on earth compete with the Unicorn Café. Every surface is pastel; shelves heave with plush unicorns; and you’re encouraged to pull on a shiny unicorn onesie before tucking into rainbow-coloured spaghetti, glittery lattes, and candy-bright shakes.

Why It’s Interesting

It is unapologetically, joyfully ridiculous — a kitsch theme café taken to its logical extreme, and a guaranteed hit with kids and the young-at-heart. The food is beside the point; you’re really paying for the most riotously pink photo opportunity in Bangkok.

Getting There

It’s a short walk from Surasak BTS in the Silom/Sathon area. Go for a drink and the spectacle rather than a serious meal, and check it’s still open before a special trip — theme cafés come and go.

📸 Mon-chan's camera roll

Snapshots from our very good boy on the road.

Mon-chan visiting the Unicorn Café — I wore the unicorn onesie. A leader contains multitudes.

Cinnamon at the Unicorn Café — Cinnamon found his people. So many sparkly people.

🍜 Food 🛸 Oddity 🤪 Weird 🧒 Kids ✨ Photogenic 📷 Photography

Where it is

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🦊 Animals

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📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

🏛️ Museum

Bangkokian Museum (The Bangkok Folk Museum)

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📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

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✨ Experience

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🎨 Art

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