When Sound Café closed in the summer of 2014, Marigny residents collectively sighed over the loss of their beloved coffee shop and book store–cum–community center. The period of mourning was short-lived, however, as a few months later the bookshelves and coffee mugs were replaced by an updated kitchen and chopsticks with the opening of Bao & Noodle by Doug Crowell, formerly of Herbsaint. Crowell can often be found peeking out from behind columns of steam in his open kitchen,...