Social Eatz, Midtown East, NYC – The Restaurant Fairy

Food: ☆☆☆
Service: ☆☆☆ ½
Ambiance: ☆☆☆
Cost: $$
I recommend: Hot Wings, Burgers

Social Eatz is Top Chef and Top Chef Masters star Angelo Sosa’s newest creation. With a menu focused on Asian-inflected American comfort foods, Sosa creates dishes such as the bibimbap burger or the kung pao sandwich.

The food is pretty good. Some dishes were stand-out good like the Korean accented burgers and the spicy chicken wings. Others just didn’t make the cut like the kung pow sandwich or the much acclaimed yuzu cream puffs – which I thought were just over fried, over flavored dough balls.

Social Eatz, claims that eating should be a social experience and encourage customers to connect with friends, family or even others sitting alongside them whilst at their restaurant. It’s an interesting concept but sounds a little too gimmicky.

For Sosa’s sake, I hope the food can hold its own and Social Eatz can keep up with its celebrity chef’s blazing popularity.

Here is some of what we ate: