COMO Metropolitan Bangkok – a new chapter begins

As part of the brand’s commitment to contemporary urban living, COMO Metropolitan Bangkok – including all 137 rooms and suites – has been reimagined by Italian designer Paola Navone. This Bangkok opening becomes Navone’s second project in Thailand for COMO Hotels and Resorts, and a perfect pairing with its island hotel, COMO Point Yamu, on the southern Thai island of Phuket.

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Navone’s trademark is a modern sense of place without cultural pastiche. This is achieved through sensitively balancing local materials (wood, ceramic, and stone), and a confident, playful contemporaneity using form and colour, including oversized woven seat-backs and splashes of Buddhist orange. Textures, including marble, are simple, satisfying and luxurious, and come alive in the play of light and shadow. The lobby counter – clad in textured stone with subtle reliefs – draws inspiration from Thai masonry and temple walls, whilst an overhead patterned bamboo wall recalls traditional Thai screens filtering the tropical skies.

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“With our urban properties, I’ve always wanted to create hotels with spirit which are dynamic and design-forward,” discussed COMO Hotels and Resorts’ founder, Christina Ong, who opened her first Metropolitan hotel in London in 1997; “But they also need to be elegant and exceptionally comfortable – places where our guests can retreat from the city to enjoy a pared-back, almost meditative simplicity.”

This balance – between lively city living, and the serene escapism travellers seek with busy schedules – is also manifested in the hotel’s key offerings, including dining and wellness.

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Awarded an eighth consecutive one-Michelin star in the Michelin Guide 2025, nahm on the ground floor of COMO Metropolitan Bangkok, led by Chef Pim Techamuanvivit, offers a refined take on regional Thai cuisine. Reservations are essential for this spectacular journey in the sweet, salty, hot and sour contradictions of one of Asia’s most complex cuisines.

But sometimes, guests want something a little easier – a familiar comfort food, or a light, healthy option after a late-night arrival. With this in mind, COMO Cuisine makes its Thai debut at the new COMO Metropolitan Bangkok with a new restaurant on the second floor and a substantial all-day dining menu. Developed by Australian chef Daniel Moran, COMO’s Culinary Vice President, alongside COMO Group Executive Chef, Amanda Gale, menus feature salads, soups, meats and fish dishes, ‘kitchen’ classics, sharing dishes, and kids’ favourites. The restaurant also features a wide selection from COMO Shambhala Kitchen – a healthy living concept with an emphasis on whole foods.

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While the Navone-designed lobby and the hotel’s 25metre-long outdoor pool invite conviviality, guests can also retreat completely for yoga and restorative treatments at the hotel’s iconic COMO Shambhala wellness centre featuring 10 treatment rooms, a yoga studio, gym and hydro pool.

This redesign offers guests some peace and quiet in the city centre, while at the same time remaining connected to the buzz and culture of the city. The hotel’s new Iconic Experiences, designed to immerse guests in the culture and creativity of Bangkok, will include a private shopping experience in collaboration with Club 21 – another of Christina Ong’s companies, featuring different stores across the city specialising in highly edited collections of men’s and womenswear. Oenophiles will also have access via new Iconic Experience to the Monsoon Valley Siam Winery – a bold new departure for viticulture just outside Bangkok. This immersive journey will help diners make sense of the terroir, and the wine pairings recently introduced to the hotel’s Thai restaurant.

The reopening of COMO Metropolitan Bangkok is an important moment as part of a bigger journey for the brand. “We now have five urban hotels, with two in London, and one in Perth, Singapore and Bangkok. They all share a careful balance of public style and private calm,” said Olivier Jolivet, CEO of COMO.

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