Good Roots

What is it: A whole-foods kitchen that started as a meal-delivery operation – founders hand-packing and hand-delivering everything themselves – before growing into a proper restaurant brand with locations at Sathorn Square, Rama 9 and Yard 49. Tunacado is one of its most ordered items. A viral style pressed sandwich with tuna mousse, avocado, pesto and tomato on toasted bread, rebuilt around the brand’s commitment to unprocessed ingredients.

Why we love it: Every component is made from scratch using natural, minimally processed ingredients and Good Roots is unusually transparent about it – detailed nutritional information on every menu item, portraits of the local farmers they source from on the wall. The tuna here is fragrant and soft, the avocado ripe and properly sliced rather than mashed and the bread has that slight, satisfying chew of real sourdough. Most dishes clock between 20 and 45 grams of protein, which is part of the appeal for the sports-science crowd that frequents the Sathorn location.

Time Out tip: If you're coming in post-workout, pair it with one of their high-protein smoothies. The peanut butter one is worth the extra baht. Flavours range from vanilla and chocolate to a strawberry PB&J chicken shake.

Good Roots. Tunacado B320. 1/F Sathorn Square, Rama 9 and Yard 49. Daily 8am-6pm (hours vary by branch).