The Sound Table is the newest restaurant/club from the owners of Top Flr. It’s in the Old 4th Ward and the bottom floor is a bar/club with a DJ booth, while the second story hosts the dining room. We visited on a quiet Monday, so we had dinner downstairs where we could enjoy the DJ and the atmosphere.
The menu is one of those amazing ones where everything sounds good. It’s supposed to be inspired by “street food,” but I found that to be an excuse to just cook whatever the hell the chef wanted. Creative Loafing has a good article examining this “street food” trend.
We started with cocktails, and what glorious cocktails they were. I had an old fashioned Gin Fizz (made properly with egg whites), while Brian had a Tommy Noble (pictured).
I also tried the Horse’s Neck (Bourbon, Bitters and Ginger Beer- my perfect combination- pictured):
For food, we just grazed around the menu, ordering as we felt hungry. We tried the crispy pork spring rolls (delicious, and you get 5 for $5). They combined crab and pork in a crispy golden roll.
We also had the Vietnamese Pho which was just lovely. I’m not a connoisseur of Vietnamese food, so I can’t tell you how authentic it was, but I can tell you how much fun it was. The bowl of broth, noodles and meat came with three side bowls: one with soy and sriracha sauce, one with sprouts, cilantro and other goodies, and one with extra broth. It was a lot of fun to combine the various ingredients. The broth was that perfect level of saltiness and the meat was tender and well-seasoned. The only hard part was figuring out how to eat it gracefully.
I would absolutely come back to The Sound Table. The food was great, and a great value, the cocktails are some of the best I’ve had in the city (I’d put them up there with Leon’s and Holeman & Finch), and the atmosphere is really fun.
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