Wine bar · Pai Walking Street
A wine bar on Pai Walking Street: wine by the glass, poured 120 ml to the brass line in front of you, cocktails, beer and small plates. Open every day 17:00–00:00. Pet friendly. Same address as The Bottle & Cat's Whiskers — Sammy is still at the counter.
Vermut Café Wine & Cocktail is a restaurant and wine bar at 35/1 Walking Street, Wiang Tai, Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130, Thailand. It opened in October 2026 at the address that was The Bottle & Cat's Whiskers; bartender Sammy still works here. It is open every day from 17:00 to 00:00, with last orders at 23:30; there is no breakfast or daytime service. Seating is walk-in only and no reservations are taken. The menu is wine by the glass (120 ml, poured to a marked line), cocktails, beer, vermouth, mocktails, coffee and small plates; street food from the Walking Street stalls may be eaten at the table. Dogs are welcome. Phone +66 97 153 6565. Cash and cards accepted.
A wooden shophouse on the walking street — tables on the street, a terrace under the red V, the window, the counter, sofas upstairs and a balcony for when the fog comes in. Pick yours.
Long tables on the walking street itself, under the lit sign. Bring the skewers from down the road, order the wine here, and watch Pai go by.
A roof over you, the glass behind you, the street a step away. Round tables, a sprig of rosemary, and a lamp on each once the sun goes.
The calmest tables in the house, with the walking street framed in the glass doors. Wine along the wall beside you, the counter a few steps away.
Stools at the bar, glasses overhead, the shaker an arm's length away. Sit here if you'd like to talk to whoever is making your drink.
Low sofas in the wooden room, lamps on the tables, and a long table when it's a party of friends. Quiet early, warmer once the music starts.
Small round tables under the wooden shutters, each with its own lamp, and the lit wine cabinet in the corner to choose from. The singer sets up here.
A rail, a lamp and the whole walking street below you. The seats worth coming early for.
Lit letters under a single line, on dark timber above the walking street — and the red V on the front terrace, so you can spot us from down the street.
Tables on the street, lamps lit, the red V over the door and the market going by. Take a seat outside and watch Pai walk past.
Every glass is poured at your table, into a carafe with a brass mark. Not a splash under. Not a guess. It is the one promise this place is built on — and the line under our name is the same line.
Old World and New — by the glass at the window, by the bottle at the table.
Every cocktail is built the long way — measured with a jigger, shaken or stirred by hand, strained and finished in front of you. Wine is opened at the counter and poured to the line. Not the cheapest glass on the walking street; the one made by someone who knows what they're doing. Sammy is still behind this counter — take a seat where you can watch.
Doors open as the walking street lights up. The music follows the room — slow while the first glasses go down, louder when the room is ready, and quiet again before we close on time, with respect for the neighbours.
Aperitivo light. Vermut on ice, olives, the first pour of the night.
Glasses by the window, plates to share, the street going by.
Cocktails, the upstairs tables, songs people know.
One more, then we close at midnight — on time, every night.
Some nights there's a singer in the corner, playing to the room — close enough to request one.
Cheese and cold cuts, sausages off the grill, rosemary potatoes, olives — plates for the middle of the table. Priced as on the menu tonight.
Japanese Sausages with fresh tomato, Japanese cucumber, carrot & garlic aioli
Black & Green Olives, Sun-dried Tomatoes, Artichoke Hearts
9 drinks at this price until 21:00 only · every day 11:00–21:00
See the Happy Hour list ↗
210 things to drink and eat, priced exactly as they are at the counter. What you see here is what the till sees — it updates itself.
Most ordered first — what the counter makes most nights.
Best sellerCocktails
Best sellerThai Dark Rum, Brown Sugar, Fresh Lime, Peppermint, Soda
Best sellerCocktails
Best sellerGin, Lime, Syrup, Thai Basil
Cocktails
Cocktails
Cocktails
Dark Rum, Passion Fruit & Mango, Brown Sugar, Soda, Peppermint
Cocktails
Cocktails
Cocktails
Cocktails
Champagne, Barolo, a Basque white, an orange wine, a pét-nat. When one runs out, another good one takes its place — ask what's open.
ChampagneChampagne Delot Blanc de Noirs Réserve Brut
BaroloViberti Buon Padre Barolo DOCG
Piedmont whiteViberti Timorasso Derthona
BordeauxChâteau Divine Bêtise Montagne-Saint-Émilion · Wine Enthusiast 91
Beaujolais cruChateau de La Chaize Morgon 2023
Sold out · ask what's nextTxomin Etxaniz white from Getaria 2024
Sold out · ask what's nextPurcari Nocturne Rară Neagră
NaturalYetti & The Kokonut Hipster Juice 2021
Sold out · ask what's nextNuance Corail Vin Orange
Pét-natBellenda Con Alti Pet-Nat Non-Filtered Colli Trevigiani IGT
Come as two, come as six, or come on your own with a book — there's a seat for it.
Pick something up from the stalls on the walking street and bring it to your table. The board games are on the shelf — free to borrow while you're here. And yes, your dog is welcome too.
Dogs are welcome — at the tables out front and inside. The regulars at the door already know the way in.
From the German Wermut, wormwood. A bitter herb, steeped in wine, that gave the wine its name.
It took us a long time to name this place. We picked a few names and threw them all away.
Our problem was that we wanted to open early. Breakfast, coffee. But by late morning someone always wants a glass of wine, and here you cannot pour one until eleven. We spent a while being annoyed by that rule. Then we found out the Spanish already have a name for exactly that hour. They call it la hora del vermut. The vermouth hour.
Over there, on a day off, before lunch, people sit down together, order one cold vermut and a small plate of olives, and talk. Nobody is drinking to get drunk. It is just how the neighborhood says hello. They have been doing it for a hundred years.
The word itself is not something clever we invented. It is the name of a plant, from the German Wermut, wormwood, a bitter herb that grows on dry ground. Before refrigeration people steeped it in wine to preserve it and to use it as medicine. The wine took the name of the herb.
The man who turned it into a business was Carpano, in Turin, in 1786. Turin is also a city where cafés have long served coffee in the morning and something stronger at night. Once we knew that, we stopped pretending we had invented anything. We just moved something a city has been doing for 240 years onto a walking street in Pai.
Here the vermouth hour is 11:00 to 14:00. You do not have to wait for dark.
That is the Turin story. Here the doors open at 17:00, every day — there is no breakfast or daytime service.
Vermut Café Wine & Cocktail
At 35/1 Walking Street, Wiang Tai, Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 — the two-storey wooden shophouse that was The Bottle & Cat's Whiskers.
Every day from 17:00 to midnight. Last order is at 23:30.
No. We don't take bookings — just walk in.
Yes. Street food from the stalls outside is welcome at your table.
Yes. Every glass is 120 ml, poured to the line.
Yes — cocktails made to order at the counter, Thai and imported beer, vermut, mocktails and coffee.
Yes. Same address, a new café since October 2026 — and Sammy is still behind the counter.
Yes. We are pet friendly — dogs are welcome at the tables out front and inside.
Cash and cards.
No. We open at 17:00 every day and close at midnight. There is no breakfast or daytime service.