Hot Pot Buffet Express is managed by KECO Hot Pot and Goodyada Co.,Ltd. Their passion is to bring delicious hotpot to your diners at a very reasonable price.
A Nyar Thu is a Burmese restaurant that inhabits cuisine from the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar. Sweet, mild and a teensy bit of extra oil. Here, you will have a chance to taste a good homey meal with a very affordable price.
One of Yangon’s most popular expat haunts. 50th Street Bar is a little slice of home for many foreigners living in the city. With Comfortable seating. Western food and live sports matches, it often offers some much needed sancity when Yangon-Life can become a bit too much.
A delicious fried cut purse and modern Thai food at a reasonable price. And also they have other choices of food categories.
It’s not surprising that Chatime is here at Myanmar. Available all around the world, 25 to be exact, Chatime is no stranger to locals. You can choose a drinks from the 70 varieties available customized to your liking. You can ask them to add different types of toppings like pudding, coconut jelly, coffee jelly, red beans, grass jelly and more! They are popular for their unique combination of drinks like lychee yoghurt jelly, oolong tea mouse and matcha red bean milk tea, among others.
Escape the bustle of Yangon, and enjoy a sumptuous breakfast, a light meal or the Strand High tea, a long-standing tradition that harks back to Myanmar’s Colonial past. Using only the freshest ingredients, sourced at grass roots level to maintain the authentic feel of what is on offer, The Strand Café has a variety of dining options available. Relax in a comfortable rattan armchair, under lacquer fans whirring from the high ceiling, cocooned in comfort and luxurious splendour.
The Strand Restaurant, seating up to 45 diners as well as a private dining room for 10 guests, offers Classic European cuisine, pairing high quality imported ingredients with the varied organic produce found in Myanmar.
In honour of the Sarkies brothers, the original owners and founders of the hotel, The Strand has created Sarkies Bar at the Strand, offering the perfect environment to enjoy afternoon refreshments, sip on an evening sundowner or enjoy a cocktail before dinner, mindful of the rich heritage and history synonymous with this Yangon landmark. Sarkies Bar at The Strand offers a wide selection of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as an array of cocktails and a comprehensive wine list, allowing guests the opportunity to enjoy a relaxing drink in this historical Bar. We are also showcasing some of the finest single malt whisky selections available within Myanmar, where guests can sample a variety of International malts, under the guidance of our barmen who will gladly advise according to your choice.
Happy Hour (Every Friday and Saturday)
50 % Off on selected cocktails with complimentary canapes
Father’s Office is a newly opened small bar in downtown in front of Minister Office. Their signature hot-dog is locally produced by Merguez sausage wrap in Bacon and Tasty cheese which is served with chilli sauce. They also make it easier to drink on Friday night with their special deals! They also have Happy Hours everyday starting from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM but excluding Wine and Beer.
The place is clean, tidy and the service is exceptional. Cuba Bar is the newest addition to a long list of bars near our Myanmore office. A nice place to hang after a long day’s work and just crack a few cold ones with your boys.
With over 150 family restaurant locations on six continents, Tony Roma’s is one of the most widely recognized names in the industry. Now in Yangon, Tony Roma’s is causal dining family restaurant that serve premier BBQ ribs and steaks, chicken and seafood entries and their world famous onion loaf.
HAVANA is the first Afro-Latin dance club offering classes in Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba and many more. As its name says, it is a perfect place for social dancing and spending time in a lively atmosphere with a great selection of food and drinks.
Originating from Vietnam’s busiest Ho Chi Minh city, Vuvuzela is a new bar in town where you can enjoy Vietnamese food while listening to unplugged music bands. They also offer shisha in various flavours which are legit and affordable drinks.
The bar atop Yama Hotel on Bo Myat Htun was, apparently, a fixture of low-cost Yangon watering holes popular among local students with a relaxed vibe. Some old Burma hands had been awaiting its reopening after it closed more than two years ago, missing a rooftop bar on West of downtown. It reopened, as part of a revamp by Yama, last month with a more up-market vibe, offering a decent range of bar snacks, main meals, draft beers and
even a few bottles of fancy imported ciders, beers, and wines.
In Japanese, Gekkõ translates literally as “moon-shine”.
Gekko is located on the ground floor of the beautiful Sofaer & Co. building in downtown Rangoon. It was completed by Isaac and Meyer Sofaer in 1906. Both brothers were Baghdad-born, Rangoon-educated Jews. As well as owning many commercial properties in Rangoon, Isaac and Meyer were successful traders in their own right with interests in wines & spirits amongst others. Isaac was the architectural designer and Meyer made a success of the trading business by getting exclusives for luxury goods and supplying expats with imported groceries and spirits.
Gekko was Yangon’s first true open Japanese kitchen with a charcoal fired Yakitori/Robotayaki grill and cosy cocktail lounge. The menu is focused around charcoal fired Yakitori, with several vegetarian options available, as well as classic Japanese dishes like Katsu Curry, Ramen, and an extensive menu of sushi and sashimi. More recent menu additions include Korean and Vietnamese style dishes, as well as a creative weekend brunch offering dishes such as Matcha Pancakes, Salmon and Scallop Congee, Daikon or Beef Bao and Momofuku inspired Sirloin Ssam The Japanese inspired cocktail menu is courtesy of Singapore’s famously discreet 28 Hong Kong Street, as well as group bar manager Jen Queen and their charming bar manager, Puia.
This is the perfect place to pop in for a beer and some Japanese tapas after work, relax and catch up on emails with their fast fiber optic internet connection or settle in for a proper meal and taste their extensive collection of unusual Sake, Shochu or Japanese whisky. Their Friday night Jazz nights, with live music from 8pm-10pm remain one of Yangon’s most enduringly popular nights out!
In 1906, Isaac Sofaer, the son of a family of provisions purveyors from Bagdad who came to Rangoon as a child, commissioned the renowned architect Thomas Swales to construct the Sofaer & Co building to be a centre of commerce at the most prestigious postcode in the region at the turn of the twentieth century – Lower Pansodan Road.
In 2016, a group of friends who met in Yangon stumbled upon a derelict unit at the far right of the once thriving emporium, which was being used as a warehouse for plastic packaging.
A dream was born: to revive a place that could be a space for the meeting of minds, to build a home away from home for people at cross-roads in a country at cross-roads.
The brainchild of Ingyin Zaw, Sofaer & Co. adopted the name of its namesake building. Here we celebrate life’s simple pleasures – coffee, cocktails and an open kitchen with the freshest local and regional ingredients.
Sofaer & Co’s space preserved most of the original features of the building – including the encaustic Victorian-era tiles from Manchester, steel beams from Lancashire and wood panels from possibly the era of the Vienna Café and Burma Book Club.
The clean, contemporary design pays homage to the history of the building, featuring our own designed, locally made furniture with the signature Burmese rattan weaving, locally commissioned artwork and reclaimed glassware from Nagar Glass Factory.






























