Roots at Sathon
33,31 Bhiraj Tower at Sathon, Unit No. A.1.2 1st Floor, South, 12 S Sathon Rd, Yan Nawa, Sathon, Bangkok 10120
Worth a visit for the sourcing story as much as the cup. Roots operates a cup-to-farm program that returns a portion of revenue to farming families in northern Thailand, and every bean in the bar is Thai-grown. Founder Varatt brought Thai coffee to the World Barista Championship stage, and the Sathon showcase bar is the closest you get to that work in a glass.
You walk into the ground floor of Bhiraj Tower on South Sathon Road and find yourself at a four-metre bar that runs the length of the Roots setup. The counter is deliberate design: founder Varatt Vichit-Vadakan built it to eliminate the usual distance between the person brewing and the person drinking, inviting customers into a conversation about the coffee in the cup.
Roots started in early 2013 as a weekend-only micro-roastery on Soi Ekamai that doubled as a weekday training space. Varatt, who had worked in media and marketing before pivoting to specialty coffee, co-founded it with head roaster Korn Sanguenkeaw and Somdej Luengtaviboon. The commitment from the start was 100% Thai-sourced coffee, a position that has not shifted as the brand grew to four outlets under the Kinnest Group umbrella.
The sourcing model runs on direct relationships with farming families in northern Thailand. A cup-to-farm program returns a portion of revenue to those producers, funding improvements in skills, knowledge, and working conditions at origin. That program is baked into the price of every cup at the Sathon bar.
At the showcase bar, the range of brewing methods gives you genuine options. Espresso, syphon, and hand drip all feature, and the baristas are positioned to talk through the differences between single-origin Thai lots on offer. The Sathon location functions as much as an educational space as a coffee bar, reflecting the roastery's longstanding interest in helping customers understand what specialty Thai coffee means at the farm level.
Surasak BTS sits directly beside the tower, making this one of the most accessible specialty coffee stops on the Silom-Sathon corridor. At 4.6 stars across 917 reviews, the bar holds strong across a high-traffic lunch and commuter-facing crowd.