Social Place

Had low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. A new take on Cantonese food in Central.
Food: 4 out of 5
Ambiance: 4 out of 5
Service: 3 out of 5
Value: 3.5 out of 5
First off, the food is nicely presented. A simple dish like thousand year old egg and tofu is transformed into a pretty dish. That’s pretty friggin impressive. We ordered a bunch of dishes including their signature dishes. None of the dishes were amazing, but they were all tasty and consistent. Also, they were all nicely plated and presented. This makes this place a perfect first date place. It’s not too loud, the décor is nice and the food is tasty.

This place has really cute dimsum! But it is a tad pricy for the quality of dimsum as I think there are plenty of other places with much tastier and cheaper dimsum like Timhowan! However, the presentation here gets an A+!
I am personally not a big fan of truffles, but I must admit that the truffle buns are a must get here as they are so well made! The buns look like actual mushrooms! The rose red bean buns are also pretty good if you don’t mind the rose fragrance too much! I think the best dish I had here was probably the Bao! It came with a huge piece of pork belly and the flavoring was sweet and salty! I just wish they added more peanut flavoring like the authentic Taiwanese ones.
Overall an ok dimsum place.

I really like this place. No queue, polite servers, brilliant food. Their roast pigeon is great, as most of the time all you get are bones. The pigeon here is very meaty, hot, and juicy!!! Immediately wanted to come back and have more pigeon!
They have happy hour where you get half price alcohol. Yay!
Lastly their Buns are really good. Had the rose bun which had really pretty presentation, and a slight rose fragrance. Mmmm!!!
They also have one ping pong table for dining on, how cool! And sometimes your eating utensils (ie bowls) may have ant or bugs prints on it. Kooky.
Note: the piggy Buns are only available on Sundays.
They also do dim sum.

The food tasted okay but one more star for the great décor and atmosphere. I ordered a combo with drunk chicken, roasted eggplant and fun pei. The portion was pretty small and the food tasted average. The chicken came without bones though, which was great. I also got the noodles with crabmeat, which was better than the rest of the food. The texture was quite soft but the crabmeat wasn’t that flavorful. Still pretty good! I think the buns are more famous because they come in cute and creative shapes so give that a try! Reasonable pricing around central area but there could be better alternatives around the neighborhood.

Tried this place for the first time over a Thursday lunch. Me and my troops wanted to yum cha but everything in central was fully booked. I called and made reservations at 11 and managed to get tables at 12! I would highly recommend to book before going because it seems the place is a full house by lunch !
On first impression, the decoration and atmosphere reminds me a lot of «the dinning room «which makes me wonder if the same owner opened it.
In terms of food, the restaurant serves contemporary dim sum

Pretty interesting place. I came late & in a group so the food was already ordered & didn’t see the menu or make any choices. But the food was good, atmosphere cool & prices $ 120 for my share at lunch.
There are printed ants at the bottom of the bowls & the waiter promised to brush them away next time.

Yet another brand new restaurant here on 2/​F of the L Place. I came here for dinner for the first time on their third day of business. It was a Wednesday night and there were only about 5 tables that were occupied in the whole restaurant. My friend and I looked at the menu and wanted to order everything on the menu because the photos of their dishes all looked so tempting.
We ended up ordering the turnip cake, drunken chicken, steamed pork cake with egg yolk, roast baby pigeon, double-​boiled soup for 2 and some vegetable rice. It was certainly quite a big meal for just the two of us. I liked how their dishes were of small portions and the price was very reasonable. The only dish that we didn’t like was the steamed pork cake and the rest were quite tasty given they do not use MSG. As if the two of us didn’t have enough, we even ordered two more sweet items to share. Again, we were temped by the lovely photo on the menu of the egg custard buns (with the «vehicle», «horse» & «canon» Chinese characters) and decided to give it a try. Well, the real one didn’t look quite as cute and they tasted ok just like any ordinary egg custard buns.
Based on my first experience, I would have given it 4 stars.
Two weeks later, I decided to come here again for lunch on a Sunday. This time the restaurant was packed but we didn’t have to wait for long for a table. Food was still great. However, the service was terrible as there were simply not enough staff to handle all the customers. We waited for half an hour until the first dish came. Everything came out so slowly and the poor couple sitting next to us waited for even longer until they realized their orders weren’t even in the system and the waiter had to reorder for them. One of our dishes still did not arrive until almost an hour after we ordered. I mean it was some chilled chicken that should be brought from the fridge… where was it? We chased different waiters for a few times and the staff just re-​ordered it and gave us a newly printed order list… then it came out in 2 minutes.
Overall, the food at Social Place is all good. I hope the management will work hard on their operations as soon as possible and make sure all the customers are getting the service that they deserve. Apparently, the turnover rate for 2/​F L Place is quite high since the building first opened a few years ago… I hope Social Place will not follow the fate that the previous restaurants had.

Excellent décor and concept. A warm and inviting Chinese place that is presentable for business lunches and out of town guests. Love the ping pong table in the middle of the restaurant.
The Food: No MSG and rice oil is their selling point. The food was pretty tasty.
We ordered:
Vinegar & Sesame Noodles– very tasty however I would have enjoyed more of a sesame flavour vs. Vinegar.
Truffle Shiitake Buns– genius. Shaped like a shiitake mushroom open it up and it oozes mushroom and truffle goodness all wrapped in a pillow of chewy bao. Truly innovative and a highlight– will be a hit here.
Spicy Wontons– the sauce was great however the filling lacked any sort of flavour. They needed to add some salt.
Organic Soy Milk– the waitress insisted that we tried their organic soy milk. It was just ok.
Overall, I would love to try more dishes as this place did not leave me heavy and lethargic– and a bonus is they deliver to Central and Mid Levels. Score! Well done.