Arawy Vegetarian Food
152 Dinso Rd, Sao Chingcha, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok 10200
If you have one shot at vegan Thai in the old town, order the buffet. Three dishes over rice for ฿70 is the most efficient way to read the kitchen's curry paste and vegetable game in one sitting. The doors open at 7:30 AM and close at 7 PM. The room is explicitly LGBTQ+ and family-welcoming, which the staff flags directly on the venue profile.
152 Dinso Road, in the Sao Chingcha subdistrict at the historic core of Phra Nakhon. Arawy is the vegetarian Thai kitchen on this strip.
The buffet logic is straightforward: choose three or more of the day's dishes and the kitchen lays them across a generous plate of rice for ฿70 a head. The rotation leans Thai-classic with a vegan rewrite. Curried tofu with green beans and cabbage. Tempura tangled with pink rice noodles and bean sprouts. Stir-fried kale, Massaman, coconut-milk curries, mixed vegetables over rice. The food does the talking.
The room sits in walking distance of the Giant Swing itself, the 21-metre teak structure first built in 1784 under King Rama I that gives Sao Chingcha its Thai name. Wat Suthat Thep Wararam, the major Rama I-era Buddhist temple with its principal Buddha image carried down from Sukhothai, holds the same block, and the Devasathan Hindu shrine complex sits a few minutes further on. Step out of the temple heat, sit down with the day's curry, and you are eating inside the original block of the original Bangkok, the historic Phra Nakhon district that became the capital in the 1780s. The kitchen also explicitly welcomes LGBTQ+ guests, trans guests, and families, which the staff lists as a marker on the venue's public profile.
Open 7:30 AM to 7 PM, seven days a week. Delivery and takeaway are both available, which is the practical heads-up if you are timing the visit around a museum window or a pickup near the Giant Swing rather than a full sit-down meal.