La La Land has been around long enough to remember a very different Soi 6.

Tucked near the Beach Road end, the bar has been pouring drinks since at least the mid-2000s, making it one of the street’s genuine survivors. The setup is classic Soi 6: open to the street, compact inside and close enough to the passing crowd that the boundary between bar and soi tends to disappear once the afternoon gets moving.

There’s something appealing about finding a place like this still doing its thing while signs, owners and entire venues have changed around it. La La Land doesn’t need to pretend it just arrived.

The name may sound like fantasy, but this little piece of old Soi 6 is very much still here.