Singha Song Thai

I visited Singha Song Thai today with a friend for lunch.
The restaurant was very clean and nicely decorated. The service was spot on and the waitstaff were very attentive. I was very pleased to see that the lunch menu had all of the standards!
My lunch was fantastic! I had the Tom-​Yum soup which was great. It had black mushrooms and fresh tomatoes. For my main course I had the green curry which was great and it came with a crispy spring roll. It was all so good; I ate every bite!
My friend ordered the pad thai which was very good, but could have been spicier.
Overall the food was GREAT, the price was AWESOME, and the service was SPOT ON!
I will definitely go back, and I’ll be ordering takeout as well!

Beware – if you put this into your Garmin or Tom Tom it will take you to Singha Thai, which is a completely different location.
I have eaten in once and ordered out once from this location. It always appears very slow and it makes me sad that they don’t have many customers. When I ask «how is business?» they always give me depressing looks and responses like «could be better».
Do not hold the emptiness of their dining room against them. The food here is delicious. It is on par with LA Thai for sure – I think the stupid name may be hurting business here.
This is located on a street with many other restaurants and it is hard to lure people into a Thai place when it sounds like the staff will sing you a song instead of take your order.
I ask for my food spicy at Thai restaurants and this one, along with LA Thai obliges. My server laughed when my face was red and refilled my water two or three times. I don’t know why I always do that. I feel more alive when my food fights back. It’s a primal thing.
The décor is really nice and everything is very clean. It is a beautiful building that probably made someone a gorgeous home at one point. I really hope these folks can stay in business.
Go support them!

I think this is the best Thai food in town — its owned by the same people as Singha in downtown New Orleans. The service is fantastic and the décor is not too overbearing for a quiet dinner. I’ve never had lunch here, but its a favorite for a Friday night dinner with the family. They’ve been fighting with the neighborhood assocaition which doens’t want any new liquor permits. The upside? BYOB with no corkage fee. The Pad Thai and Pad Woon Sen are delightful. The curry dishes are sharp, but not overwhelming. We LOVE their appetizers — fresh spring rolls, dumplings. I normally skip dessert, but you have to try the fried banana with ice cream. It’s that good.

It pains me to write this review. When I saw a Thai place steps from my apartment I couldn’t wait to try it. And when I saw the Unilocal reviews I was ecstatic.
I judge a Thai place on pad Thai, yeah that’s right! its a staple dish that clues you in on the rest of the dishes. I used to order in once a week while living in Boston because they have great ethnic food options (*sigh*)…
I noticed comments about vegan/​veggie options. Although this is true, most places will accommodate if you ask (again, at least in Boston they have). I ordered tofu/​veggie pad Thai, spicy. To-​Go. The veggies were obviously not fresh/​overcooked. The tiny pieces of tofu were overcooked and chewy. The noodles were more on the dry side (which is fine) but the sauce lacked depth and was overpowered by the red sauce they used to make it spicy (sriracha??).
The Tom Yum soup smelt like sweaty gym socks and was out right disgusting. I couldn’t even eat it. No idea what made it that way but it could have been the shrimp because when I ate the shrimp it tasted off.
The lady on the phone and at the restaurant was nice but the prices are higher than other Thai places I’ve seen around.
I’d probably try something else on the menu, just to give it another shot, but I’d bet its not going to be much better.
I’d suggest you go somewhere else.

I like this place for lunch because it’s fast and good and peaceful. I always order the green curry dish, and I always ask for it to be spicy. Hot really isn’t very spicy but that’s just me. Let’s meet for lunch. :)

My girlfriend and I have searched for a good thai food place in the city. So far this is the best one. The curry that I ordered came with fresh vegetables that were crunchy and sweet from the curry base. My girlfriend had the ginger fish which tasted tangy, spicy, and sweet. We both found the appetizer the best part: crunchy tofu sticks. I would definitely recommend this for the person looking for Thai food in uptown.

I’ve headed here doe lunch a couple of times, and the place is always empty. Why?
Pros:
The service is quick and incredibly friendly.
The dining space is airy and bright.
Cons:
The prices are very high for lunch.
The execution of the food served is sub-​par.
I’ve tried the chili beef noodles and the beef was so tough and dried I wished I had a dog to toss it to them for a chew toy. I’ve tried other items that weren’t very memorable.
It’s in a great location but they need to step up their game to remain open.

This space has gone through several restaurants over the years and so I felt compelled to sample the latest development. I’m quite a fan of Thai food so I was excited to sample some of their offerings. I started with the Tom Yum soup and got Pad Thai as my entrée. The food wasn’t the best I’ve had but it was tasty. The interior of this establishment hasn’t changed much from the previous tenants but it is a very nice and comfortably designed space with a fantastic location on Maple Street. I would probably choose La Thai, Basil Leaf, or Sukho Thai over the food here but if you’re in the area this place can certainly satisfy your Thai craving.

My homegrl got fried rice, and to her eye rolling, I just went for much-​ballyhooed pad thai – I eat plenty of Thai food in quality, quantity, and diversity, I just had a craving for it, k? Anywayz, both were bland and disappointing, and cost twice what they should have. They get one point for décor, which is nice enough, but it was a real bummer to be out nearly $ 20 for pad thai, tip, and a glass of water when so thoroughly mediocre. As with pizza and Mexican in this town, you’re probably better off making your own.

It had great food, service was a little substandard. It is a nice quiet place.

First perplexed thoughts upon unexpectedly running across Singha Song with no knowledge of it: «What? They’re really going with that name? Wait, where are we? Did Chill Out Café redesign itself?» It’s bizarrely positioned a whopping block from another long standing thai place-​Chill Out Café. My impressions so far are positive, but I can’t say it does anything special relative to its thai brethren.
I’ve ordered the pad thai and the pad woon sen. Pad woon sen is my default thai dish because 1) I love it 2) it’s a good way to compare restaurants based on the same dish. It was mostly as expected. Flavors were pretty on point. However, I would have liked a lot more egg in it. My fellow attendee had the same meal and was equally pleased. The prices fall somewhere in between Chill Out and Sukho Thai with decent portions. Note that when I have gone, they give you bottles of soda instead fountain refills.
It’s well decorated, if a bit of a hodgepodge. The place gives off a very clean and slightly upscale feel. You wouldn’t feel uncomfortable in a decent pair of jeans, though. The staff has been very welcoming and generally attentive. They actually don’t have miserable, dead shark eyes from working there it seems. If you’re in the area, I’d check out Chill Out first but Singha Song is a perfectly fine choice if you are looking for something a smidge more upscale.
Side note: I thought it was funny they bill themselves as «authentic thai» when everything I’ve tasted is nearly identical to the Chill Out version. Either they’re both authentic or somebody be lyin, yall!

I am forever seeking an authentic Thai food; the kind that I had in Thailand. Mostly I get hints of what I remember, but never the real deal. (the search continues…)
We went here for lunch and had a very nice experience. There was no one else in the place when we entered at 1:30 in the afternoon, but a few more tables came in as we looked at the menu. The server was wonderfully polite and kept my water glass full.
I order the Tom Yum with Shrimp and the Beef Salad, both very flavorful and we also had an order of Pad Thai which was good, but lacked something and I am not sure what.
Overall a good experience. The place was super clean and nicely decorated. Lunch prices seemed much more reasonable than dinner. I would be open to trying them again.

Best Thai food in NOLA — hands down.
I’ve eaten at just about every Thai restaurant in the city up to now and have been woefully unimpressed. Again, I realize that with ethnic food there are 2 challenges: (1) american tastebuds and (2) regional differences in how the food is prepared. That said my assessment isn’t an indictment on how good the other places are (except that place on Magazine street which is waaaaay too expensive considering the quality of the food; you’re really just paying for the swank ambiance). Rather, I just think this place is a cut above the rest.
When eating here, for me, everything just tasted right. I strayed from getting the usual Pad Thai. My general reasoning is that if you can’t get the national dish right why would I bother eating anything else??? However, on this occasion the deviation was well worth it. I had one of the specials and it was rolling!!! I felt like a kid returning home with my spoils on halloween. I can’t remember what I had but it was delicious — well seasoned. The Thai tea was excellent. The décor was calming and spacious — no cramming to fit everyone in and maximize profit. Overall, just a good place.
Also, I have no idea whether they include MSG in the food or not, but it just tasted like Thai food should taste.

Don’t bother going here if you’re vegan!
I usually do reviews on my blog,
…but there, I try to focus more on NOLA-​style eateries.
My husband and I went to Singha Song a couple of weeks ago to get a break from the usual at home. We had heard that this new restaurant had great vegan options, and since we both love Thai food, we were hoping it would be the answer to our cravings. We were both REALLY disappointed.
There’s no doubt the chefs know how to do flavor — the soup and sauces we ordered had plenty of that. But at the same time, the soup and sauces seemed cheap, since they were all pretty thin (compared to the same/​similar dishes at other Thai restaurants). We ordered vegan versions of Tom Kha soup, the Ginger Sautee, and Panang Curry.
We started with bowls of soup. Each bowl was basically some coconut-​based broth with a bunch of tofu and LARGE vegetable chunks dumped on top. Kind of like we were eating a vegetable side dish and a broth at the same time, but they weren’t really meant to be put together and considered a soup. We were both drawn to a particular type of vegetable chunk as our first bite — and were unpleasantly surprised upon chewing it. It was woody! Really woody. We think maybe it was some tough bamboo? But anyway, it really didn’t work. As for the rest of the soup, the challenge was getting both a giant vegetable chunk and some broth in each mouthful. I also didn’t like that one of the veggies seemed to be a large piece of iceberg lettuce. It was as if it had been wandering aimlessly down Maple St. in search of a salad to jump into, but had accidentally landed in my Thai soup instead!
Then came the main dishes. To our disappointment, they were very much like the soup! Around a mound of rice, there was a sauce and a PILE of vegetables and tofu dumped on top! We’ve had Thai plenty of times before, and we’ve never seen this. It seemed to be yet another version of the classic misunderstanding of what vegans like to eat…
— «Chef, we’ve got some vegans at table 4. What do they like?»
— «Vegetables!»
— «How do they like them?»
— «They don’t care — you could stick them out of your ears and they’d eat ‘em! Vegans don’t have taste buds or aesthetic sense or any standards at all for that matter! As long as we don’t sneak meat into their dishes, they’re happy!»
— «How should we serve the vegetables then?»
— «See that dump truck over there? It’s full of vegetable matter. Just back it up to their bowls and let it do its thing!!»
In addition, my husband pointed out that although we ordered from different sections of the menu — he from «Sautees» and I from «Curries» — our dishes were exactly the same apart from the type of sauce.
In closing, I’ll add that I appreciate that Singha Song WANTS to serve the veg population — that fact is admirable. But in order to do so, they really need to look into what constitutes good vegan cooking. Our meal was not done up to the standards of other Thai restaurants. It was also NOT worth what we paid for it. I’d really wanted to order dessert, but by the time we’d finished our entrees, we were too annoyed at what we’d already have to pay.
On a positive note, our server was very nice.

Singha Song is a new Thai restaurant on Maple Street located in the old location of Uptown Cajun. The Thai food here is great! If you are on a low budget, I would recommend coming for lunch when it’s half the price of dinner. The staff is so friendly and they did a nice job renovating the place. Some of the dishes can come spicy, so be careful when ordering. Try the Pad See Ew if you need a break from the Pad Thai. I can’t wait to come back again!

Love the curry fried rice. Seriously why isn’t this a standard on every menu? And my friend had the mango shrimp salad special; it was fresh and delicious.
And the lack of a liquor license has been confirmed. I think the liquor behind the bar is just there to tease you.
Plus I have been corrected; the 2 Singhas are the same owners. So, yay, for expansion!

Decent Thai food. It still lacks the true flavor complexity and balance that really good Thai food has. But there isn’t a single awesome Thai food place in New Orleans, so I guess this may as good as it gets here.
The food is good, the staff is great, the décor lovely, and parking is easy. So it’s definitely worth a try.

Amazing atmosphere!!! I had worked for 7 hours from morning and needed a break and this was JUST THE PLACE!!! So serene and full of natural light! And the food is awesome too… I had the chicken satay and the pad thai… delicious! After lunch and chilling here, I did NOT want to go back to work!

Absolutely the best Thai food I’ve ever had! There were 7 of us for dinner, so we had the opportunity to taste many different appetizers & entrees. Each was better than the last.
The owner came out to talk with us, and was extremely gracious.
This is definitely on my agenda for my next trip to NOLA.

I just discovered this place, and I’ve already eaten there twice. The owner says the restaurant is affiliated with the Thai place next to One Shell Square downtown, and I love that place too. The Mee Crob is a subtle curry dish with cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, and noodles served with shrimp and beef or pork. I can’t tell which. The texture of the rice noodles is like nothing I’ve had before. They start out slightly crunchy, then as the meal progresses they absorb the creamy curry sauce, and become more — well noodley. The crunchy cabbage and carrots work with the noodles to provide a very pleasing texture, while the creamy curry sauce comes around from the side while you’re not looking, and really fills out the dish. The spring rolls have cucumber and rice noodles in them, and are served with crumbled peanuts and a unique sweet and sour sauce as opposed to the usual plum sauce. The Pad Thai likewise is less spicy than Pad Thai I’ve had at other restaurants, and this lets the flavors of the fresh ingredients show themselves.
The place has two outdoor tables on the porch, and inside the décor is modern and clean in a renovated-​uptown-​house sort of way. The bathroom was very clean and spacious, and the staff are friendly and efficient. My only issue is there is no parking, so you have to park in the neighborhood, and walk there. No big issue really for me, but there it is. Prices for lunch are about $ 9 while prices for dinner run between $ 8 and $ 20. I highly recommend this place, and I want it to succeed, so I can return there for a long time.