Sri’s Room: The Next Chapter in Sri Trat’s Culinary Story Opens at Siam Paragon This October

Sri’s Room – A New Chapter of a Timeless Story

The Sri Trat Group, long celebrated for redefining Bangkok’s Eastern Thai dining scene, begins a new chapter with the launch of Sri’s Room, opening in October 2025 at the iconic Siam Paragon in the heart of the city centre.

The journey started with the now-legendary Sri Trat on Sukhumvit 33, where Eastern Thai cuisine found an elegant and soulful expression. It continued with Burapa – Eastern Thai Cuisine & Bar on Sukhumvit 11, a train-carriage-inspired culinary adventure that captured the spirit of travel and discovery. Now, the narrative unfolds further with Sri’s Room: an intimate, nostalgia-infused dining space that reimagines Bangkok in the 1970s and 80s, through the whimsical eyes of the fictional muse Sri Trat.

Together, these three restaurants are more than destinations — they are chapters of a story told through food, design, and imagination, where each opening represents a different stage of Sri Trat’s life.

Sri’s Room – in the voice of Sri Trat

“I was nineteen when I first left home. A curious girl with a suitcase full of dreams, I boarded the train, eager to see the flavours and colours of my country. That journey became Burapa — my story as a girl traveling the length of Thailand, chasing the thrill of discovery.

Years later, at twenty-seven, I found myself in Bangkok. A countryside girl in a big city, I rented a small Sino-Portuguese building tucked into a bustling street. On the ground floor, I opened a tailoring shop, carefully stitching dresses for my new customers. But it was in the back room, behind the sewing machines, where my real joy came alive: cooking.

I would prepare the dishes of my childhood, flavours that carried me back to Trat, to my mother’s kitchen. Customers who came for tailoring often stayed for food. Some even brought me ingredients — a handful of herbs, a jar of shrimp paste, a bundle of vegetables — so I could cook for them on their next visit. It was an exchange of stories, of flavours, of kindness. That small shop became more than a business; it became a room full of memories.

This is the story behind Sri’s Room — a restaurant inspired by that time in my life, the city’s rhythm in the 1970s – 1980s, and the warmth of home-cooked food shared in intimate corners.