Southold Social — Restaurant in Town of Southold

It's been many years since our visits here, including several anniversaries with fabulous memories. Ambiance is now elegant as opposed to homey elegance. Nice. My wife, when reserving, indicated it was our anniversary and asked for a table by the fireplace.

We were told six or seven times, 'Happy Anniversary,' no mention of fireplace, (in the past with no mention of anniversary, when they overheard us, they comped us champagne and a desert). I did not and do not expect that, so one 'Happy' would have been fine, but given the number HAPPYs perhaps a small bon mot. I had the tuna carpaccio, which was a very vinegary serviche with fish taste totally obscured. My wife had single tater tot cooked in duck fat with caviar, good ... but. She ordered chicken, but then was told the special, so changed to it. It turned out to be an another small appetizer a cerviche of several fishes (turned out to be one). Offered a replacement for my tuna, I ordered the same and it was excellent (but again small). My wife ordered a single scallop appetizer deciding 3 appetizers was enough. I ordered Swordfish (on the rare side) and a side of Brussels sprouts. A surprisingly a large main course came with mashed potatoes and baby broccoli (wonderful) and side dish of carrots (quite good) instead of Brussels sprouts which the waitress explained that we had been given an old menu. We were not charged for its The Swordfish was properly but overcooked for my taste and somewhat salty. If you are sensitive to salt, mention that as other things were slightly over salted.

Service was okay, complaints replaced, but having ordered a bottle of wine, when our glasses went dry, we had to wait twice to signal for a refill. The North Fork Table white wine blend is nice and at $55, the cheapest, significantly better than two other local wine at higher prices. The most surprising thing was that our unfancy Cappuccino ($9) was probably the best we ever had.

As the swordfish was large, I took a large piece home with the unordered carrots, but they gave me the wrong bag. I now have a chicken drumstick and thigh and more. Someone else has a large piece of Swordfish.

Sadly, we hoped to continue a tradition now that we...

I came for dinner last Thursday with my family, which was a few days before Southold Social closed for the season (We had come shortly after they first opened and I had refrained from writing a review until they had some time to work out the kinks). It also happened to be ladies night, so we had pre-dinner drinks at the bar (1/2 off drinks for Ladies). My Dad, the only man in the group, somehow, got a free beer since he had 'kicked the keg'!

We ate upstairs. The décor was simple and the area was quiet, except for the the occasional whir of the hand dryer in the restroom, which provided more laughs from my parents than annoyance. The service was good, much improved since our first visit, save for a couple glasses that got picked up not QUITE before they were empty. As for food, we ordered a range of things: the Caesar salad, beet salad, cacio e pepe, rigatoni alla vodka with muscles, grilled salmon and the pork chop. Consensus was that the salads were nice, pastas OK, but the mains were lacking. My dish, the Rigatoni was maybe the best vodka sauce I've ever head (and I eat a lot of pasta), but the muscles in the dish were enormous and fishy--I picked around them. The Cacio e Pepe was good, but not a classic or imperfect preparation--slightly oily/salty. The salmon was a basic grilled preparation on a bed of something (can't remember what), which provided all the flavor--but the flavor was very one-note: sweet. I didnt try the pork chop, by my dad was disappointed and determined he would not order pork chops at restaurants anymore.

Next, we tried some of Payard's desserts, and thank goodness we did! We got the trio of sorbet ("best I've ever had" -Dad), the Pavlova with mango and passion fruit, and a chocolate flourless cake. The desserts, at 10$ each, are by far the star of the restaurant.

Overall, the restaurant is much improved from our first visit just after they opened, however, the price tag on the mains suggest creative flavors and perfect preparation, which we didnt see.

We would come back again for lunch, in the summer, to sit outside, eat a salad and...

Had the BEST FOOD AND THE BEST TIME HERE!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 My hunnnies Jeff and I are new to the North Fork 🥰!! I have been SO EXCITED to try this place but they were closed for the season! When I saw they were opening and hosting a wine dinner pairing on Thursday nights WE HAD TO GO!!! First off I LOVEEEEE FOOD and a great cocktail(s), this was a NO-BRAINER!!! I have to say we had the BEST TIME 🤩🤩🤩🤩, we met cool peeps and the FOOOOOD WAS AMAZEEEEEE!!! Not only was everything DELISH BUT THE PORTIONS were spot on!!! There was no way you were leaving hungry which happens often when you do a prixe fix menu. The other NICE SURPRISE was they added a beginner course which was a chilled cream of asparagus soup!!! WOWZA SOOOO GOOD!!! The next course was salmon again SALMON is my FAV, so was so EXCITED ABOUT THIS. Then we had gnocchi which coming from an Atkins loving person here 🙋‍♀️ I try to limit my carbs BUT not here!!! I was no way NOT gonna eat it and DAMN it was SOOOOO WORTH IT 💪🏻💖💪🏻. If that wasn’t enough, the main dish was short ribs which was a DOUBLE WOWZA!!! AND ALL THAT was topped off with a tangy dessert plus flowing wine!!! I say flowing because they kept refilling and there was no shortage of wine (as there usually is when you do a wine dinner pairing). All in all we have found our NEW HOT SPOT!!! I can’t say enough good things about the food, the wait staff and the chef!!! If you are in the area (then you probably already know all this) but DEF make this place your new go-to!!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 and if you are visiting then you MUST COME BY!!!! This is North Fork cooking at its BEST and you will be SOOOO HAPPY YOU DID!!! This a 5 star North Fork restaurant for sure!!! 💖👏🏻💖👏🏻💖~ DEF BE SURE TO...