TongBar — Restaurant in Chiang Mai Province

In this intimate live music joint, a revolving list of rock/funk/jazz players bring the heat while the staff keeps everybody in the groove.

A unique aspect of this bar is the near 50/50 split between Westerners and Asian customers.

Frequented by a who's who of local musicians, and the occasional well known musician/actor, this bouncy little dive bar is capable of producing jaw dropping surprises.

Hint, if the band says they want to bring someone up to sit in with them... You should probably pay attention...

The place is easy to find, it's on a main road in the old city, near the Zoe in Yellow complex. Look for the crowd standing on the sidewalk and often spilling into...

Great place for live music and drinks. Go early to get a seat otherwise you’re gonna stand all night. Buy drinks directly from the bar as the beer girls cheat foreign customers, especially tourists. Watched the Chang girl take 290 baht from an older gentleman who ordered one 120 baht drink. She even had the nerve to bring him 10 baht change to make him think he paid the right price. Owners of tong bar, please do something about this. You have such a great place to let local beer girls ruin your reputation. FYI the incident I saw happened on Wednesday night(sep 3) by the Chang beer girl- only one. I even asked her in Thai why she took his money and she just laughed...

Been coming here for years. It’s always a reliably good time. The bands are great and the atmosphere is lively. The only problem is a) it’s very small (the band is crammed in and there only room for about 5 “tables” inside and b) they’ve started closing the doors, which makes sitting outside very frustrating as you can’t really hear the music except when someone goes inside - about every 10 seconds. This bar is so popular, I don’t understand why they don’t move or expand into a larger location. They obviously...