A public noise rating for dining out
Better conversations start with a little less noise.
Quiet Table helps you choose the restaurant, bar, or café where you can hear the person across from you—before you book.
No review to write. No account required for a first reading.
A quieter time
Illustrative venue view
Tonight, 6:45 PM
A table made for talking.
The first proof
One dense restaurant strip. Sixty venues. One Friday evening.
We are starting small on purpose: measure a complete local dining scene with a calibrated meter, then publish the spread people cannot otherwise see.
60
venues measured
A real neighbourhood, not a national list.
7 PM
same evening
A comparable moment across the street.
1 goal
show the spread
The gap between easy talk and a hard night out.
A rating you can feel
Four bands, translated for the table.
Decibels matter to the measurement. Plain language matters to the reservation. Every Quiet Table reading lands in a band you can understand at a glance.
Library
Whisper across the table.
Under 65 dB
Whisper across the table.
Conversational
Normal talk, no strain.
65–75 dB
Normal talk, no strain.
Raised Voice
Leaning in by dessert.
75–85 dB
Leaning in by dessert.
Shouting
Bring someone you do not need to talk to.
Over 85 dB
Bring someone you do not need to talk to.
When a venue changes character
Illustrative hour-by-day pattern—not live venue data.
The time matters
Do not just choose the place. Choose the hour.
A restaurant can be easy at 6:45 and exhausting at 8:30. Quiet Table is designed to show the pattern, so a good dinner does not have to be a lucky guess.
First city, first list
Help make dinner easier to talk through.
Join the early-access list for the first neighbourhood launch, the initial 60-venue field study, and the chance to contribute a reading when the map opens.