Suda - Thai & Vegetarian Restaurant

Vegetarian food here isn't a token page at the back of the menu, and that's the reason to go. The kitchen cooks familiar Thai dishes and treats the plant-based versions as proper cooking in their own right, which makes it an easy pick when your group can't agree on where to eat. One person wants meat, another doesn't, nobody has to compromise.

It's casual rather than smart, and it works fine for a solo diner with a book as well as a table of four. What I'd really flag is the hours. Eight in the morning until midnight, every single day, is unusual in this part of Bangkok, and it makes the place genuinely useful. Breakfast before you walk over to the temples, or a proper sit-down meal at eleven at night when you've come off the river and everything else nearby has shut. Jet lag has a way of scrambling mealtimes and this solves it.

The location on Soi Samsen 4 puts you in Phra Nakhon, walking distance from Khao San Road and the older Banglamphu lanes.