Looking for a Sunday roast, Phuket mostly offers you a pub carvery a long way from the water. Soho Pool Club now serves one every other Sunday from 2 to 5 PM at Boat Lagoon Marina: chicken, lamb, or both, with all the trimmings, from 690 THB++. There are twenty seats and it is reservation only.
Do you know why roast dinners are so scarce on a tropical island? Yes — because a roast is a cold-weather meal that takes hours, and most kitchens here are built for speed and heat. Slow-cooking a leg of lamb for a Sunday afternoon is a deliberate choice, not something a kitchen drifts into.
This guide covers what is actually on the Soho roast, what it costs, why the number of seats is capped, how to book, and what else a Sunday at the marina looks like once the plates are cleared.
Sunday Roast Phuket: Why It Is Harder to Find Than You Would Expect
Phuket has a large and long-settled British, Irish and Australian community, and the Sunday roast Phuket expats miss most is the one nobody seems to cook here. The island does have them — mostly in pubs around Patong, Chalong and Phuket Town, where the format is a carvery or a fixed plate served from noon until it runs out.
What is genuinely rare is a roast with a view of water that is not the sea, cooked to order rather than held under a lamp, and eaten somewhere you can stay afterwards. Most roasts are a lunch you go out for and then come home from. That is the gap Soho is aiming at, and it is worth being honest that it is a narrow one.
If you want the pub version, go and have the pub version — it is a different and perfectly good thing. If you want a long lunch by a pool with a marina behind it, that is what this is.
There is also a simple economic reason roasts are scarce here. A roast is one of the few dishes a kitchen cannot make to order: the joints go in hours ahead, they come out when they are ready, and whatever is not sold is gone. In a restaurant built around a long a la carte menu, that is an awkward thing to schedule. Most places solve it by not bothering, or by running it weekly and accepting the waste. Running it fortnightly, capped, and by reservation is the third option, and it is the one that lets the kitchen cook properly rather than cautiously.
Sunday Roast Phuket Menu: What Is on the Plate
Three plates, all served with the full set of trimmings, all slow-cooked. Prices are from the published Soho event menu and are quoted
++, which means 7% VAT and a 10% service charge are added on top — the same as everything else on the Soho menu.
| Plate |
Price |
Best for |
| Roast Chicken |
690 THB++ |
The straightforward choice, and the lightest of the three in the heat |
| Mixed Roast (Chicken & Lamb) |
790 THB++ |
If you cannot decide, or you want to try the lamb without committing to it |
| Roast Lamb |
850 THB++ |
The one people travel for. Slow-cooked and the first to go |
"All the trimmings" means what you would hope it means. The plates are generous and the pace is slow — this is a three-hour sitting, not a turn-and-burn lunch service.
One practical note on the lamb. It is the plate people ask about first and it is the one most likely to be gone, because the kitchen portions from whole joints rather than cooking to order. If lamb is the reason you are coming, say so when you book rather than deciding at the table — it is the difference between having it and hearing about it.
The rest of the
Soho menu runs alongside it, so anyone at the table who does not want a roast is not stuck. Drinks, desserts and the Thai menu are all available as normal.
Why It Is Limited to Twenty Guests
Twenty is not a marketing device. A roast is portioned from whole joints that go in the oven hours before service, so the kitchen has to decide in advance how much to cook. Cook for forty and half of it is wasted; cook for ten and the people who turn up at three are told it has gone.
Capping it at twenty and taking reservations is the honest way to run it. It means the lamb has not run out when you arrive, and it means the kitchen is not throwing food away. The trade-off is that you cannot walk in on the day and expect a roast — you can walk in and eat from the regular menu, but the roast itself needs booking.
How to Book the Soho Sunday Roast
- Check the date. It runs every other Sunday, not every week — the first was 1 November 2026, and it continues fortnightly from there.
- Message +66 80 706 3107 on WhatsApp. That is the dedicated line for roast bookings.
- Say how many of you there are and which plates you want. The kitchen is buying and prepping to the number of covers, so the choice matters more than it would on a normal day.
- Book early in the fortnight rather than late. Twenty seats across one sitting go faster than people expect, and the lamb tends to be spoken for first.
- Arrive from 2 PM. The sitting runs to 5 PM and there is no second turn, so there is no need to rush.
- Bring swimmers if you want the pool afterwards. It stays open while you eat.
What a Sunday at Boat Lagoon Looks Like Around It
The roast sits in the middle of the afternoon, which leaves the day open at both ends.
Mornings start at eight — the kitchen opens for
breakfast from 8 AM, and the full all-day menu follows at 11. If you are making a day of it, breakfast by the pool and a roast at two is a very reasonable way to spend a Sunday, with a swim in between.
The pool is open the whole time. It is free to use when you order something from the kitchen or the bar — there is no entry fee, no day pass and no wristband, but you do need to order. On a roast Sunday you will have ordered.
Upstairs, the sports lounge runs whatever is on. Sunday afternoons in high season usually mean Premier League, and the roast finishing at five lines up with the early kick-offs more often than not.
If you would rather do something slower with the gap, Soho Wellness is on the same site: a sauna and ice bath session is 300 THB, and it covers both — there is no separate charge for one or the other. Most people find the order that works is a swim first, the sauna before the food rather than after it, and then the roast.
It suits a few different tables. Families use it because the pool keeps children occupied either side of a long lunch and the kitchen has a kids menu running alongside. Expat groups use it because a fortnightly fixture is easy to keep in a diary. And visitors staying elsewhere on the island use it as the one afternoon they are not on a boat or a beach — Boat Lagoon is a working marina, so a Sunday here looks nothing like a Sunday in Patong.
And on Fridays, the Sunset Social Session
The roast is not the only thing new on the calendar.
Every Friday from 5 to 8 PM, Soho runs the Friday Sunset Social Session — drinks as the light goes off the marina, and a resident DJ playing deep and unhurried house rather than anything you would need to shout over.
It overlaps the Friday happy hour, which runs 5 to 7 PM, so the first two hours of the session are also the best-value two hours of the week to drink in. Our guide to
Friday drinks at Boat Lagoon has the full happy hour list and prices.
No booking needed for Fridays — it is a walk-in evening.
Where Else to Eat Around Boat Lagoon
A fortnightly roast leaves thirteen other Sundays in the quarter, and we are not going to pretend Soho is the only place to eat on this side of the island. Our guide to
restaurants in Koh Kaew covers the neighbourhood properly, including places that are not ours.
And if what you are really after is a traditional pub roast with a bar and a football crowd, the pubs in Patong and Chalong do that format every week and do it well. Check their hours before you set out — roast service in Phuket usually starts at noon and ends when the food does.
Getting to Boat Lagoon for Sunday Lunch
Soho is at 23 Boat Lagoon Marina, Koh Kaew, on the east side of
Phuket province — a working marina rather than a beach, which is why Sunday afternoons here are quiet. From Phuket Town it is roughly ten minutes by car, from the airport twenty to twenty-five, and from Patong allow forty or more. Parking is free and there is plenty of it.
For anything other than a roast booking — private dining in the Andaman Dining Room, larger groups, or events —
see the events page or
get in touch. Nothing is confirmed until you have it in writing from the team.
A Place Where Sunday Slows Down
A Sunday roast, Phuket being what it is, is a slightly stubborn idea — wrong climate, wrong hemisphere, and it takes a kitchen most of the day. That is rather the point. Twenty seats, every other Sunday, two until five, with the pool open and nobody hurrying you out.
Book on WhatsApp at
+66 80 706 3107. Boat Lagoon Marina, Koh Kaew — open daily, 8 AM to 10 PM.
