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“The Stanton Social”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	New American	Lower East Side	Moderate	Great

plings ($9)—a Chinatown twist on the classic soup that delivers a dose of hot onion soup inside a golf ball-sized dumpling, topped with a blanket of gooey gruyere cheese. We popped them in our mouths and pretty much on cue all rolled our eyes back into our heads. Clearly we were all aroused. Ditto the Red Snapper Fish Tacos ($9)—flaky chunks of snapper flecked with chiles, lime, cilantro, and fired up with a spicy mango and avocado salsa, tucked neatly into crunchy homemade mini corn tortillas. These disappeared way too quickly. The Crispy Oysters Rockefeller—breaded and deep fried oysters—are not necessarily oyster-like after they are fried. But we didn’t really care. These pancake-sized fry babies were crispy and greaseless and topped with creamed compound butter of traditional Rockefeller garnishes—watercress, parsley, Pernod, and chives. We bickered like siblings over the last of the Duck Empanadas ($9)—aggressively (but nicely) seasoned shredded duck stuffed into a deep pastry envelope, served with a blood orange dipping sauce. (We kept the sauce on the table throughout the evening to use for anything else that might come our way. It was smashing.)

Santos replaces traditional crab cakes with fat fried paella cakes fashioned from lobster, chorizo, artichokes and saffron-scented rice ($12). Jamie and Susie finished them pretty quickly, leaving Court and I to start in on the chicken and cashew spring rolls ($7), lean crunchy cylinders with a syrupy sweet and sour sauce. These are definitely worth a few orders for the table, as are the piping hot, super crispy on the outside, fluffy potato on the inside perogies with caramelized onions and sour cream ($7).

On another night, our cross-cultural cocktail party began with a couple of pizzetas—a pair of crisp flat bread planks—one topped with the milky fresh buffalo mozzarella, with cherry tomatoes and torn basil ($9), and another more uptown version, quilted in smoky bacon, bleu cheese, and truffle honey ($12).

We then moved onto The Stanton Social Beef Wellington ($19)—a luscious hunk ‘a filet mignon, smothered in a duxelle of mushrooms and wrapped in a golden case of buttery puff pastry. But the Nori-Crusted Tuna ($11) was sort of average, as were the Tuna Satays. The slider combo, however—a sweet little assortment of brioche bunned mini-burgers—Kobe beef ($5), pulled pork ($5), and lobster roll ($6)—w ... [more, click below]

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Posted: May 15, 2005

Other restaurants in Lower East Side :
+ Mojo   + WD-50   + Schiller's Liquor Bar   + Azul Bistro   + Barrio Chino   + 71 Clinton Fresh Food-- Closed   + Little Giant   + Kuma Inn   + Falai   + The Stanton Social   + The Tides   + Thor   + The Orchard   + El Bocadito-- CLOSED   + Bondi Road   + Rayuela   + Suba   + Bun (boone)   + Sorella   + The Fat Hippo   + Pulino's   

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