Tropic City Volume 2

Tropic City is one of Thailand’s very first tropical cocktail bars and a new edition to Bangkok’s rapid and ever-flourishing cocktail bar scene.
​The brainchild of the creative bartending duo Philip Stefanescu and Sebastian De la Cruz, Tropic City is a high quality neighborhood cocktail bar that features a mix and match of tropical influences from countries particularly close to the equator with an innate love of rum with an even larger rum collection.

Established a mere year ago in December 2017, based in Bangkok’s up-and-coming Charoen Krung area, Tropic City further completes the already established “It neighborhood” and its diverse community of gallerists, restaurateurs, artists, and more. The pair has created a unique high-volume cocktail bar where everyone is welcome, whether you are looking to explore the world of cocktails or dance the night away with friends.
 
With a colorful approach, bright and tropical color scheme, floral morals, and prints, our second edition cocktail menu highlights and showcases new flavours and techniques, where we further explore and expand on the concept of what we define as tropical. Playing around with complex flavours and unusual combinations, all while staying true to the Tropic City philosophy of “keeping it simple but delicious”.
 
Using a variety of different fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices, in combination with various techniques such as infusions, fat washing, clarifying, pickling, making our own tinctures & bitters, and more. Clearly showcasing the evolution and development of Tropic City, whilst challenging and pushing the boundaries of the cocktail scene in Thailand the Tropic City way.
 
Together with its dynamic team with both established talents and rising stars behind the bar, Tropic City’s head bartender Arron Grendon recently won the Global Chivas Masters 2018 in London earlier in June becoming the very first contender from Thailand to every win a global competition. As well as having already hosted guest shifts and bar takeovers at Tropic City by the likes of legendary bartender and pioneer Michael Callahan, Samuel Kwok and Shelley Tai from World’s 50 Best Bar Quinary, Owen Gibler of Employees Only Hong Kong, Divyesh Chauhan of Junglebrid Kuala Lumpur, 2017 Bacardi Legacy Global winner Ran Van Ongevalle, and many, many more.