1100 Social - Interesting Food at
This Well Managed Restaurant
My spouse and I visited 1100 Social for brunch on a Sunday
afternoon in late July 2017. We visited between sporting events at Lincoln
Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park, and 1100 Social provided a convenient
place for a meal. The restaurant is open on Friday and Saturday nights and
during stadium events. You can book a table using the online Open Table
reservation system. Parking is available in an adjacent lot; however, it is
only complimentary when there are no sporting events or concerts. (We arrived
on foot because we stayed nearby at the Marriott Courtyard at the Navy Yard.)
1100 Social opened in September 2015 in the XFINITY Live
Center, the entertainment venue at the South Philadelphia sports complex.
(The restaurant occupies the space of the former Spectrum Grill.) The
name 1100 Social combines the street address for XFINITY Live! (at the corner
of 11th Street and Pattison Avenue) and the social aspect of the restaurant
(conceived by Entertainment Consulting International or ECI). This restaurant
offers the most upscale environment and refined menu of all the XFINITY
tenants. (Other dining establishments including the NBC Sports Arena, PBR
(Professional Bull Riders) Bar & Grill, Victory Beer Hall, and Broad
Street Bullies offer a more pub-like atmosphere and menus.)
1100 Social seats approximately 300 patrons in a
variety of places: indoors at the curved bar, high-top communal tables near the
bar, or regular tables and booth, semi-indoor (outside of the 1100 Social
enclosed main dining area yet still within the XFINITY complex), and outdoors
at high-top or regular tables or in Adirondack chairs.
1100 Social serves
food with an Asian and Mexican flair, organized into snacks, small plates,
large plates, and bowls. The supplemental weekend brunch menu also contains
some breakfast-y options. The chef once participated on the Bravo TV show “Top
Chef”, and he is also chef/owner of two other Philadelphia restaurants, Ela and
the Gaslight. The menu contained so many interested dishes that we had
difficulty narrowing down our choices. We ordered the General Tso’s rice balls
(with broccoli and sesame seeds) and the steamed pork buns to share as
appetizers. For our “entrees”, we shared the Banh Cam (giant crispy Vietnamese
dumplings filled with pork) and the Korean meatballs. Everything was delicious!
Service was great, with the manager stepping in to expedite and deliver
food.
We loved our lunch at 1100 Social – we wish it were closer
to home so that we could visit more often.
