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| - Note: this is a review of their small bites/happy hour menu.
The Skinny: decided underwhelming dishes with very little flavour or complexity (2) service: understaffed, there was only 1 waiter available to take orders from two separate rooms (2), value: there is no value for overpriced, slightly above mediocre food (2).
When we stopped by after seeing that they had tonkotsu ramen on the menu during their happy hour.
The hostess promptly seated us at 7:30 pm and just gave us drink menus. This is despite knowing we were interested in their happy hour and wanted to try their bar menu. 8 minutes later, someone comes by and gives us a menu - not the bar menu but their dinner menu. Finally we get their bar menu to peruse (it wasn't available on the internet because we checked) after we specifically ask for it about 5 minutes later.
We did notice that there was only one waiter at the time running between rooms and they were understaffed. One of the service staff (not our waiter) did come by and apologize for the service.
We ordered the pulled beef fries with green onion and wasabi cream ($5), tonkotsu ramen with bamboo shoots, green onion ($8) plus the pork belly ($2, four slices), and a serving of their cod slider ($4).
First of all, a package of ramen you get at the Chinese supermarket is markedly superior to what they serve here. It's an insult to call the swill they serve here tonkotsu ramen - it completely lacked the full bodied flavour of pork. The noodles were overdone, the preserved bamboo had an unpleasant rank aroma. It was terrible all the way through. The addition of the anemic bland pork belly did the dish no favors.
The cod slider fared better but was still very unsatisfying. The fried cod lack crispness while it was definitely overwhelmed by the mayonaise-y tartar sauce. When they listed this as being bar "bites", they weren't kidding - the sammy was small. Quite frankly, a filet-o-fish would had been preferable and easier on the wallet.
Finally, the pulled beef fries. The pulled beef short rib was one-note while the wasabi cream... didn't taste at all like wasabi. The gravy was also overly watery which made the so-so fries get soggy too quickly.
Given how this place performed during their happy hour, I would not consider trying Social House again. This place is barely edible and expensive to boot. Given the plethora of other great places to try on the Strip, this is definitely a pass. 2 stars.
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