My friend and I started exploring the lower east side for a place to eat at around 10:00 pm. After walking a few figure eights and stopping into a ton of different restaurants, we walked in to The Stanton Social at 10:45 at night. We were greeted with loud popular music and a packed restaurant. We were sold.
The Stanton Social is pretty much an american tapas bar. They've decided to serve upscale american cuisine but in little tiny portions, hence tapas.
We ordered 5 dishes (technically six) because a) the dishes are small and b) sharing is caring and we care. The first dish was french onion soup dumplings. The dumplings were presented on a plate with 6 individual indentations (exactly the same kind of dish you would be served escargot on) that housed the dumplings. A layer of cheese topped each dumpling and on the inside of each was a small amount of soup and some tasty onions. All of these layers came together (like Voltron) to form a pretty delicious french onion soup, in a dumpling.
The second dish were 3 very tiny red snapper tacos, the highlight of which was a spicy dipping sauce that really made the dish. The tiny tacos came with normal sized lime wedges which almost dwarfed the tacos. Overall, just okay.
Sea bass satays came next and these were fantastic. Sweet and delicious all around with a salad teepee of peppers, okra, and other vegetables that i don't know but enjoyed eating. The next dish, however, was quite recognizable. In the middle sat what looked like kettle chips but were actually chips made in the restaurant with a little hint of lime. To the left of the chips was a miniature philly cheese steak sandwich with kobe beef, goat cheese, and carmelized onions and to the right sat a miniature kobe beef burger. It's almost correct to say that the miniature kobe beef burger was actually a miniature slider; it was just that big. The philly cheese steak, called a Kobe philly, was average and not something I would order again. The kobe beef burger, on the other hand, was fantastic and something I would eat 30 of, even if that 30 only equaled 1 regular sized hamburger. It wasn't really that small. It was more like the hamburger you can see in those nutrisystem commercials on espn in which Dan Marino says you can even have a hamburger and in his hands sits a hamburger which makes me think that he either has enormous hands or the diet allows you to eat little tiny burgers. Anyway, this burger is ridiculously good. Order two or three.
The last dish was their beef wellington. It came wrapped in a soft crust that contained a foie gras mousse which kind of seemed like a poor way to serve foie gras. Some of the bites were delicious and others didn't seem to taste quite right. Actually, when I say 'some' I mean one and when I say 'others' i mean the other two bites. Everything was small and we were sharing.
Overall this place was really good. Half of our dishes were fantastic and the other half were okay but not great. There were plenty of other choices on the menu that sounded really good that we'll order next time instead of the so so dishes.
99 Stanton Street
New York, NY 10002
The Stanton Social is pretty much an american tapas bar. They've decided to serve upscale american cuisine but in little tiny portions, hence tapas.
We ordered 5 dishes (technically six) because a) the dishes are small and b) sharing is caring and we care. The first dish was french onion soup dumplings. The dumplings were presented on a plate with 6 individual indentations (exactly the same kind of dish you would be served escargot on) that housed the dumplings. A layer of cheese topped each dumpling and on the inside of each was a small amount of soup and some tasty onions. All of these layers came together (like Voltron) to form a pretty delicious french onion soup, in a dumpling.
The second dish were 3 very tiny red snapper tacos, the highlight of which was a spicy dipping sauce that really made the dish. The tiny tacos came with normal sized lime wedges which almost dwarfed the tacos. Overall, just okay.
Sea bass satays came next and these were fantastic. Sweet and delicious all around with a salad teepee of peppers, okra, and other vegetables that i don't know but enjoyed eating. The next dish, however, was quite recognizable. In the middle sat what looked like kettle chips but were actually chips made in the restaurant with a little hint of lime. To the left of the chips was a miniature philly cheese steak sandwich with kobe beef, goat cheese, and carmelized onions and to the right sat a miniature kobe beef burger. It's almost correct to say that the miniature kobe beef burger was actually a miniature slider; it was just that big. The philly cheese steak, called a Kobe philly, was average and not something I would order again. The kobe beef burger, on the other hand, was fantastic and something I would eat 30 of, even if that 30 only equaled 1 regular sized hamburger. It wasn't really that small. It was more like the hamburger you can see in those nutrisystem commercials on espn in which Dan Marino says you can even have a hamburger and in his hands sits a hamburger which makes me think that he either has enormous hands or the diet allows you to eat little tiny burgers. Anyway, this burger is ridiculously good. Order two or three.
The last dish was their beef wellington. It came wrapped in a soft crust that contained a foie gras mousse which kind of seemed like a poor way to serve foie gras. Some of the bites were delicious and others didn't seem to taste quite right. Actually, when I say 'some' I mean one and when I say 'others' i mean the other two bites. Everything was small and we were sharing.
Overall this place was really good. Half of our dishes were fantastic and the other half were okay but not great. There were plenty of other choices on the menu that sounded really good that we'll order next time instead of the so so dishes.
99 Stanton Street
New York, NY 10002
French Onion Soup Dumplings
Red Snapper Taco
Sea Bass Satay
Kobe Philly (left) and Kobe Burger (right)
Beef Wellington
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