Name: The social
Address: Shop 04A, Ground Floor, Tower 8C, Gurugram, Haryana, India
Telephone: +917838045182
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.4

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In case the rain took you by surprise during the promenade around Cyber Hub, stop by this restaurant. The social specializes in Chinese and Korean cuisines. You can always degust nicely cooked momos, butter chicken and chicken biryani - a special offer of this place. Tasty blueberry pancakes, sundaes and brownies are the best dishes. Come to this spot for delicious draft beer, cordial or wine. It might be nice to enjoy great ice tea, cold coffee or lemonade.

This restaurant is well known for its great service and friendly staff, that is always ready to help you. You will pay democratic prices for your meal. At The social, visitors can enjoy the pretty ambiance and modern decor.

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Puneet

6 days ago on Zomato

Great Service by Mr. Deepanshu . Took great care and very prompt

Saransh Jain

Deepanshu rana best in service.

Rahul Prabhakar

a month ago on Zomato

Rethinking the Social ContractA visit to Social Cyberhub reveals that the line between clever concept and actual substance can be as wobbly as their intentionally misspelled menuThere's something distinctly millennial—or is it Gen Z now?—about walking into a restaurant that's trying quite this hard to be casual. The menu at Social Cyberhub arrives festooned with deliberately haphazard capitalisation, a typographic rebellion that screams "we're not like other restaurants" while simultaneously ensuring you need to squint a bit harder to order your dahi bhalla.The manifesto is revealing in its desperation to be everything to everyone: Punjab to Kerala, Irani café to toddy shop, almond milk latte to khari biscuit dunking. It's the culinary equivalent of a dating app profile that lists both hiking and Netflix as interests—technically accurate, ultimately meaningless.Riyaaz Amlani's Impresario Handmade Restaurants has built its empire on concepts, and Social is perhaps the most aggressive example of this approach. The idea—a Mumbai chawl reimagined as a dining space—is clever enough. And to be fair, they've committed to it: five "chawls" and a conference room, tenant boards in Hindi, electric meters trailing wires like nostalgic cobwebs, deliberately mismatched flooring that's been carefully designed not to trip you.But here's the thing about concepts: eventually, you have to eat the food.When It WorksCredit where it's due—the Dimaag Ka Dahi Bhalla justifies its cerebral pretensions. This is bhalla done properly: proper chill to the dahi, the saunth-mint interplay working exactly as it should, pomegranate providing those little bursts of sweet-tart that elevate the whole affair. No overthinking, just good execution of something familiar.The charred veg spring roll managed that difficult trick of being neither too virtuous nor too indulgent. Proper char, proper crunch, none of that limp sadness that plagues so many vegetarian "options."The China Box—with its slightly infantile name—is actually rather good if you make the right choices. Hot garlic sauce with hakka noodles and paneer, properly stir-fried, delivers exactly what it promises. It's comfort food that doesn't apologise for being comfort food, and there's something refreshing about that in an era of deconstructed everything.Even the Rita Sangria, which could easily have been another cynical fusion gimmick, worked. Sometimes you just want something cold and fruity with a bit of kick, and this delivered without trying to reinvent the wheel.When It Doesn'tBut then there are the Khao Suey Momos—a dish that exists purely because someone in a brainstorming session said "what if we combined two things?" and nobody asked "but should we?" The plant-based version is particularly joyless, proof that not every ingredient substitution is a good idea, and not every fusion makes sense beyond the whiteboard.The Dum Pukht Mutton Biryani suffered from that peculiar disease that afflicts so many modern restaurants: the assumption that heritage cooking can be approximated through technique alone. Dum pukht is a method that demands patience and precision; here it felt like a name more than a process.And the Classic Picante—well, let's just say "classic" is doing some heavy lifting in that name.The Bigger PictureWhat's interesting about Social isn't whether individual dishes succeed or fail. It's what the place represents: the private equity-funded approach to hospitality, where concepts are tested, scaled, and replicated based on spreadsheets rather than passion. Amlani remains CEO and MD, but when a PE fund holds the majority stake, you're not really in the restaurant business anymore—you're in the returns business that happens to serve food.The chawl concept is, in theory, a celebration of Mumbai's democratic spaces. In practice, it's a sanitised, Instagrammable version of working-class housing marketed to the very people who would never actually live in one. There's a word for this kind of aesthetic appropriation, though perhaps it's too harsh to use it about a restaurant that's genuinely trying to honour these spaces, however imperfectly.The dim, tasteful lighting and carefully planned "haphazard" décor reveal the fundamental contradiction: this is chaos by committee, rebellion by approval. Real chawls were organic, messy, alive. This is a museum exhibit you can eat in.The VerdictShould you go? If you're in Cyberhub and hungry, certainly. Order the dahi bhalla, the China Box, skip the fusion experiments, and don't think too hard about the semiotics of it all.But don't expect authenticity, whatever that means anymore. What you'll get is something more honest in its dishonesty: a well-executed commercial venture that knows exactly what it is, even if its menu pretends otherwise.The old social spaces of India that Social claims to celebrate were born of necessity, community, and genuine human need for connection. This is born of market research, focus groups, and the need to generate returns for investors.Both are valid. But let's not pretend they're the same thing.

Soy Como Soy a month ago

Hey Rahul Prabhakar, Thank you for taking the time to share such a thoughtful and detailed review with us. We’re truly glad to know you enjoyed several elements of the food and the overall experience at Social—that means a lot to our team.Our menu is designed to cater to a wide spectrum of palates, bringing together familiar favourites and bold, experimental flavours. The fusion we offer is a reflection of Social’s identity—rooted in comfort yet inspired by the vibrant, ever-evolving culture we represent.Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us continuously fine-tune what we do, while staying true to the vibe and soul of Social. We hope you’ll visit us again and perhaps discover something that hits the right note for your palate next time.Warm regards,Team Social

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