Why should you go there and how do you do it right?

Piccolo Vicolo is the café that appears on almost every list of Bangkok's best cafés. Its flagship location is in GalileOasis, a renovated building in Ratchathewi that also houses an art space, a small theater, shops, and a hotel. The café itself is a vintage loft, crammed with plants and antique furniture, with indoor and outdoor seating. Coconut drinks are the house specialty, including a Coconut Americano and a Matcha with coconut water. The cakes, especially the banana cake and lemon tart, are baked in-house.

There are power outlets, and it's also a good, quiet place to work on weekday mornings. A second branch has opened in three old shop buildings on Khlong Ong Ang Street in the old city. Check which branch your card directs you to.

It is open from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and closed on Tuesdays. It is quietest on weekday mornings.