8 Steaks

8 Steaks sits in Gangnam, and the room reads exactly the way the Seoul dining establishment expects a steakhouse kitchen at this address to read, considered, particular, and exact about the things it cares about. Premium Korean steakhouse.

The cooking turns on signatures the Seoul regulars order without looking at the menu: Hanwoo Tomahawk, Wagyu Filet, and Wedge Salad. The kitchen runs at the $$$$ register, with a wine programme that is either deep where the room is loud and tight where the room is quiet, and a service floor that has clearly worked at this register before.

For a close a deal dinner in Seoul, this is one of the addresses you should already know about. Reservations skew hard; dress is cocktail. The averaged Food/Ambience/Value line sits at 9/10, high enough to mean the room is doing more right than wrong, calibrated against the sharpest other tables in the city.

Premium Korean steakhouse. For a deeper read on this occasion across other cities, the Close a Deal guide is the canonical reference.