Two rooms, one table

Street below, wine room above

Dê Cao Nguyên 3 is not one dining room but two: a street-open beer-food ground floor, and a warm private room upstairs with live music. One goat table, two ways to sit.

The ground floor is a Saigon beer-food room in the true sense: granite tables, plastic-and-wood chairs, a front open straight onto Hoàng Sa street. Sitting here is sitting with the street — traffic passing, people passing, beer and goat set in the middle of the table.

Upstairs the air changes completely: a private room for about 12, a wine-rack wall, red curtains, exposed brick and checkered terracotta-and-yellow tile, a small stage with "Tony and Wine" / "Music and Wine" neon. Evenings here are group parties and live music — no longer a street eatery.

The food ties both floors together: goat fried rice served with a fried egg, grilled goat, goat blood soup, and the bowl of red peanut sauce set in the middle of the table. Goat is the reason to come; the two floors are the reason to stay.

Upstairs private room with a long banquet table, wine rack and neon-lit stage — The upstairs private room

Ground floor

A beer-food room open to the street

Granite tables, plastic-and-wood chairs, an open front. Big groups, many dishes, beer — the Saigon evening goat-eating style.

Upstairs

A private room for about 12

A wine-rack wall, red curtains, exposed brick and checkered terracotta-and-yellow tile. An enclosed room for group parties, apart from the street below.

Live music

The "Tony and Wine" stage

A small stage with "Tony and Wine" / "Music and Wine" neon — upstairs evenings are live music with wine and beer.

The food

Goat and the red sauce bowl

Goat fried rice with a fried egg, grilled goat, goat blood soup — and the bowl of red peanut sauce in the middle of the table, shared by all.