{"id":"fc9908ce-f501-4ec3-a662-d9b51f74d937","slug":"el-mercado-phai-sing-to","name":"El Mercado @Phai Sing To","bgm_category":"restaurants","category":"restaurants","subcategories":["Bistro","European restaurant","Mediterranean restaurant","Oyster bar restaurant","Spanish restaurant","Tapas bar","Western restaurant"],"district":"Khlong Toei","sub_district":"Khlong Toei","neighborhood":"Khlong Toei","address":"490 Phai Singto Alley, Khlong Toei, Bangkok 10110","postal_code":"10110","latitude":13.724012,"longitude":100.5611596,"status":"published","is_active":true,"noindex":false,"updated_at":"2026-05-23T10:08:24.629Z","last_checked_at":"2026-05-23T10:08:24.629Z","google_rating":4.5,"google_review_count":"3512","price_range":"$$","phone":"+66 99 131 2226","website":"http://elmercadobangkok.com","cover_image":null,"opening_hours":{"Friday":["10AM-12AM"],"Monday":["10AM-11PM"],"Sunday":["9AM-11PM"],"Tuesday":["10AM-11PM"],"Saturday":["9AM-12AM"],"Thursday":["10AM-11PM"],"Wednesday":["10AM-11PM"]},"description":"You walk into 490 Phai Singto Alley and the room reads as market first, restaurant second. Refrigerated cases line one side with cheeses, cold cuts, charcuterie, and produce. A wine cellar runs along the back wall. A handful of tables sit in the middle, and the kitchen plates Mediterranean food made from whatever the market is selling that morning.\n\nEl Mercado opened in December 2015 with four people, six tables, ten cheeses and cold cuts, and a coffee machine. The model is European-deli-with-kitchen: the same ingredients you can buy across the counter end up on a plate at the table, with Spanish, oyster-bar, and tapas formats threaded through the menu.\n\nBrunch is the strongest window. The bakery output, the cheese case, and the wine pulls all line up at lunchtime in a way that the dinner service does not quite replicate, and the room feels less like a restaurant and more like a Saturday morning in a small European covered market.\n\nThe alley off Sukhumvit Soi 24 fills with cars on weekends. Best arrive by Grab or arrange a sit-down pickup; the lane is too narrow for relaxed street parking.\n\nWorth the trip if you want to do groceries and lunch in the same visit, take home a kilo of jamón and a bottle of wine, or sit down to a long tapas table with friends. Built for the eater who wants to see the ingredients before they hit the plate.","our_take":"Lead with the cheese and charcuterie board and let the kitchen build the rest of the meal around it. El Mercado is most itself in the morning and at brunch, when the market side is the main character and the dining room rides on its produce. Order Mediterranean small plates over the full mains if it is your first visit.","custom_description":null,"hook":"Step off Phai Singto Alley into a European-style market with a bakery, wine cellar, and a small dining room running off the same produce. El Mercado opened in December 2015 as a deli, market, and Mediterranean kitchen rolled into one. 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