Dunn's Loft Owns All

Dunn’s Loft, hands down my favorite restaurant in Stamford. It feels like Teddy Roosevelt, Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra, & John Wayne opened a restaurant together. Steak, beer.. pool table? Yes, a man’s place for sure, but not the type of place that would make your girlfriend uncomfortable. If Bobby V’s is where you watch the Giants blow it in the red zone again, Dunn’s is where you discuss the issues of the day.

Loft is rather inconspicuous from the road, called out with a white banner, and accessed through an unmarked door left of Ocean 211. The steak house is run by the owner of Ocean, who converted the once upstairs banquet room of the ground floor seafood restaurant into a separate venture. It’s a model that I think other local establishments should consider for their dusty upstairs. An intimate, specialty restaurant I think would bring in more profit than a underused banquet room set up twice a year for the Dunder Mifflin Christmas Party and little Billy’s Confirmation reception.

The food was amazing. The meat could hang with any New York steak house. I had a fat rib eye, my buddy had the fillet. Great choice of sides. Good beer. A staff who knows their shit. The building is one of the more unique in the downtown with very cool, old loft windows. Dim lighting with a bar, pool table and a guy rocking some acoustic guitar complete the scene. I feel like if you were to bust out a cigar here your waiter would come light it. Try it soon, I can imagine that this will be a hard place to get a table as word gets out.