Gallery Drip Coffee
อาคารหอศิลปวัฒนธรรมแห่งกรุงเทพมหานคร(BACC) 939 Rama I Rd, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
Gallery Drip is the specialty coffee standard-bearer for the Siam area, built around a slow, methodical pour-over process that its co-founders brought home from visits to northern Thai coffee plantations. You order at the bar, watch the grind and pour, and wait with a book from the shelf. The single-origin selection rotates, with Thai arabicas like Mae Janti Peaberry alongside Ethiopian and Guatemalan options. Worth the queue on weekends when seating runs tight.
You walk into the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre on Rama I Road in Pathum Wan, pass through the main ground-floor entrance, and find Gallery Drip Coffee positioned against the wall of windows that look out onto the street and the National Stadium BTS station exit 3 across the road.
Co-founders Piyachat Trithaworn, known as Pi, and Natthiti Ampriwan, known as A, started the cafe after visits to northern Thai coffee plantations where they became absorbed in the full arc from seed to cup. Pi's photographic book about Thailand's coffee culture, titled In the Name of Coffee, is available at the counter alongside the owners' framed photographs on the walls, antique coffee grinders, and shelving stacked with coffee books.
The roasting happens off-site in a building that was once a schoolhouse, where the team handles all single-origin, fair-trade bean selection and roasting themselves. At the cafe, beans are hand-ground to a precise consistency for each cup and placed into ceramic pour-over funnels, with water heated to a specific temperature poured carefully over the grounds. The brew drips into a jar before being served.
The bean selection rotates and includes northern Thai arabicas such as Mae Janti Peaberry and Lailee, alongside international selections including Guatemala Antigua and Ethiopia Yirgacheff Blue Nile. Cups are priced from 55 to 150 THB depending on the bean. A mocha, latte, coffee jelly with foamed milk and sugar syrup, and coconut cake are also available. Tea is on the menu for non-coffee visitors.
The interior features wall-size windows, black and white murals, and wooden stools and tables. Regulars store personal mugs on a dedicated shelf behind the counter. The cafe is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:30, closed on Mondays in line with the BACC schedule. Seating is limited, so weekend visits may require standing briefly. Lead with the daily single-origin pour-over and ask the barista which bean is on rotation.