PAGA Microroastery
45, 1 Sukhumvit 31, Khlong Toei Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110
Lead with whatever Panama Geisha lot is on the bar that week. Gabriel built his career on competition espresso and the Loring leaves a clean cup, so the single-origin filters are where the craft shows itself. If you want the full nerd treatment, the first-Monday tasting flight is the proper way in. Take home a 100-gram bag, not the larger 150.
You walk past the busier blocks of Sukhumvit 31 and the soi quiets down by the time you reach PAGA, a sleek all-white storefront that signals roastery before it signals café.
Gabriel Carol opened the place with his fiancée Patricia. He was Romania's national barista champion in 2017 and 2018 and placed ninth at the world barista championship in 2018. The name PAGA combines their two names and, by coincidence, lands on a Thai word for flower. The roaster behind the counter is a Loring S7 Nighthawk, chosen for its clean cup character and environmental efficiency; every batch runs through Cropster logging software for profile repeatability. The bean lineup rotates around Colombia, Brazil Daterra and Panama Geisha, sold in packaged formats from 45-gram tasters up to 150-gram bags, with retail pricing landing between 900 and 1,500 baht depending on lot and origin. Single origin is the focus and education is the throughline.
On the bar menu, the Freddo runs a medium-roast espresso shot under whipped milk; the Paga inverts the build, with whipped espresso sitting on cold milk. Both land at 150 baht. The cold brew gets pulled into fruit territory on the Joy with strawberry and the Zuri with bael, both at 170 baht.
PAGA operates 8 AM to 5 PM, seven days a week, with free parking out front. The first Monday of every month, the team opens up for guided tours and tastings; that is the slot for the full machine-and-method walkthrough rather than the takeaway version.