Check 8282 Hours Before a Lower East Side Korean Dinner

If you are planning a Korean dinner built around small plates rather than a tabletop grill, 8282 is the modern Korean restaurant to look at on the Lower East Side: a Stanton Street room at 84 Stanton St that pairs seafood tapas with seasonal cocktails. The decision most people arrive with is timing. Dinner starts at 5:30 PM every night and runs to 10:30 PM Sunday through Thursday, then to 11:30 PM on Friday and Saturday, so a table after 10:30 PM only exists at the end of the week.

The kitchen is built for sharing. Plates like cheesy tteokbokki, tuna tartare, miso black cod and a jjajang scallop dish arrive in sequence, alongside larger pieces of Korean meat and seafood that anchor the table. Portions on the meat and seafood plates are generous rather than tweezer-sized, which is why the room reads as a dinner spot with drinks built in rather than a cocktail bar that happens to serve food.

Two practical notes before you plan. The venue record lists reservations through Resy and gives a per-person range of roughly $50 to $100, so this is a planned dinner rather than a walk-by snack, although walk-ins are noted as welcome. The same record does not state parking, accessibility or a dress code, so treat those as open questions and ask when you book.

Address: 84 Stanton St, New York, NY (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
Hours: Sunday–Thursday 5:30–10:30 PM · Friday–Saturday 5:30–11:30 PM
Kitchen: modern Korean small plates, seafood tapas and grilled meat
Price: roughly $50–100 per person, per the venue record
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 from 700 reviews
Reservations: through Resy, per the venue record
Walk-ins: noted as welcome in the venue record
Phone: +1 929 837 0360 · Chef: Bong Le Jo, executive chef and co-owner
Not stated in the venue record: parking, accessibility, dress code, corkage

The order that works here is small plates first, then one large piece of meat or seafood to finish. Start cold and raw: beef tartare and uni tartare set the tone, and the tuna tartare keeps it going. Cheesy tteokbokki is the plate people come back for, chewy rice cakes under a blanket of cheese that is richer than the menu description suggests, and a jjajang scallop dish adds the savory, fermented depth the rest of the table balances against.

Move to the grill side for the main event. BBQ pork ribs, miso black cod and the namesake NY hanger with frites all hold up as shared centrepieces, and the kitchen's habit of combining Korean meat and seafood in one evening is what makes a table of three or four the right size for the menu rather than a two-person date. Desserts run to a white chocolate matcha pudding, light enough to share after all of it.

Drinks are seasonal cocktails rather than a long wine list, so ask what is pouring now and let the pairings follow the plates instead of the other way round.

The reservation route in the venue record is Resy, which means the reliable move is to pick the seating first and the date second. Every night starts at 5:30 PM, so the earliest tables are the calmest and the best for a conversation you actually want to have. Sunday through Thursday the kitchen closes at 10:30 PM, which puts a last seating around two hours before that. Friday and Saturday stretch to 11:30 PM.

On weekends the 5:30 to 7:00 slot is the one worth taking, because it leaves the whole evening ahead of you and the room is still quiet enough that sharing plates does not turn into shouting. A later Friday or Saturday table is the better choice if the point is drinks first and food second, since the cocktail side carries the room as the night goes on.

Walk-ins are noted as welcome, but with a per-person range around $50 to $100 and a menu built for sharing, a planned booking protects the evening. Groups should say who they are when they book: the room is small and intimate, so a party of five is a different request from a party of two.

Stanton Street puts 8282 inside one of the densest eating and drinking strips in Manhattan, which changes how you should plan it. A 5:30 or 6:00 PM booking lands you at the front of the night rather than the middle, so dinner finishes while the neighbourhood is still opening up and the walk to a second stop stays short. Treat the restaurant as the anchor and the street as the rest of the evening.

The price point is what shapes that plan. At roughly $50 to $100 per person before cocktails, 8282 is the evening's commitment, not one stop on a crawl, and the money is best spent on shared plates rather than a single large course each. If you are moving on afterwards, choose the drinks spot by how little you want to walk: everything within a few blocks on Stanton, Orchard and Allen is the same night out.

Call +1 929 837 0360 for anything the booking system cannot answer, especially on the night itself. The venue record gives no parking information, so a Lower East Side trip of this shape is much simpler without a car.

What time does 8282 open?
Dinner service starts at 5:30 PM every night, and the kitchen closes at 10:30 PM Sunday through Thursday and at 11:30 PM on Friday and Saturday.

Where is 8282?
It is at 84 Stanton St on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, inside the Stanton Street restaurant strip that runs into Orchard and Allen.

Does 8282 take reservations?
Yes, the venue record lists bookings through Resy, and the earliest 5:30 PM tables are the easiest to reserve.

What should you order at 8282?
Lead with beef tartare, uni tartare, cheesy tteokbokki and a jjajang scallop dish, then share BBQ pork ribs, miso black cod or the NY hanger with frites.

How much does dinner cost?
The venue record gives roughly $50 to $100 per person, before drinks, which places it in a planned-dinner bracket rather than a quick bite.

Is 8282 good for a date, or for a group?
Both, with a different shape: the intimate room suits two, while the sharing menu and generous meat and seafood plates suit a table of three or four better.

How is 8282 rated?
4.6 out of 5 from 700 reviews, with the menu's inventive small plates and the cocktail side drawing the strongest comments.

Is there a dress code or parking?
Neither is stated in the venue record, so ask when you book rather than assuming either way.

Two Korean rooms sit within walking distance of this one, a Union Square tapas table with crispy tofu and a Tribeca tasting menu for a longer sit. For a drinks stop before or after, the Eldridge Street cocktail bars are a few blocks west, and six late rooms keep pouring when everything else closes. If the evening is built around seafood, a Manhattan buffet with hot lobster and crab extends the same appetite in a bigger room, and a Korean breakfast across the borough proves the cooking travels well past dinner.