Wow. I'd walked by Stan&Co so many times thinking "oh, I still really want to try that place" and never found the time to actually do it. Now, anyone who knows me, knows I'm really into great food so when my childhood neighbour(/kind of my little sister) and I made plans for lunch, she said "you know good food and even though I live here, I don't know Utrecht, so you pick a place". I immediately went for my bookmark list on Yelp and soon enough I found Stan&Co, sent her a text and badabing badaboom, lunch plans were made.
When we got there it was rainy and horrible outside but Stan has you covered with a great tented terrace. We decided to go inside anyway and check out the place, wow, is it huge! Or at least a lot bigger than we'd both expected.
Service started off well with immediately being brought an extra menu (there's already one lying on the table) and our drink order being taken. Drinks come, we haven't decided on lunch yet, so we continue browsing the (fairly extensive) menu. Of course being friends (GIRLS!!!) we look at the menu, chat, drink, chat even more, etcetera, but that doesn't mean it should take another fifteen minutes for someone to come and take our lunch order. I'm not sure if it was that long, probably longer, but drinks had been finished... Anyway, apart from things taking a while all the staff here is very friendly.
The food and drinks: I love that they make their own iced green tea which is all the rage now, but basically just delicious and as for the food... portions. We both ordered a salad and they were huge! I was lucky (stupid) enough not to have had breakfast yet, but after this salad I didn't even bother with dinner in the evening either! Seriously huge salads! I recommend ordering one salad with two people or maybe asking if they'll do a half sized salad. But besides that, a seriously delicious salad that I enjoyed every bite of.
Overall I think I'd like to try more of Stan to be willing to commit to a five star review. Right now they're definitely at 4.5 stars because the food was delicious, I appreciate home made iced tea (home made anything actually) and the interior design is amazing! However, portions are disproportionate, service was a bit slow this time and I have no clue as to what other dishes on the menu are like. So Stan&Co, I'll be back and I'd love to see you deserve that fifth star! read more