Pub Street / Old Market

Pub Street is the spine of Siem Reap's tourist nightlife — a 150-metre pedestrianised strip in the Old Market area that concentrates more bars per square metre than anywhere else in Cambodia outside Phnom Penh's Street 136. The format is universally accessible: open-fronted bars, plastic furniture on the pavement, Angkor beer at $1, and a crowd that peaks at 9pm with visitors fresh from the temples.

The surrounding blocks extend the zone significantly — Temple Club on the main street, Angkor What? for the late crowd, Miss Wong's cocktail bar for something quieter, and dozens of variations between them. The energy is sociable rather than explicitly adult: this is tourists mixing with each other and with local bar staff in a format that anyone can navigate.

The adult element exists at the edges — some bars on the connecting streets have a lady bar format, and the mixing that happens on Pub Street itself is organic in the way it is at any busy tourist nightlife district. Not structured P4P; just the inevitable social dynamics of a lot of people drinking in a small area.

Pub Street peaks 8pm–1am. It winds down earlier than Phnom Penh. The Old Market stalls during the day are worth a morning walk.