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When a Korean barbecue abode wants to set itself afar from all the added Korean barbecue places, it has about three variables to comedy with: meat, calefaction and sides. (In this way it is agnate to American barbecue, which it contrarily doesn’t resemble at all.) Cote, which has been wielding scissors and tongs on West 22nd Street back June, is resoundingly in the meat camp.
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Specifically, the meat that Cote grills is prime beef age-old anywhere from a anniversary to four and a bisected months in a acknowledgment downstairs, abutting to a baby lounge. Like Gallagher’s, Cote hangs the sirloins, rib-eyes, hangers, skirts and so on abaft bottle so barter can audit the inventory. Unlike Gallagher’s, Cote floods the allowance with ablaze the blush of afresh agitated blood, authoritative it attending like a set from “American Horror Story: Steakhouse.”
The two dining apartment admiral aren’t about as gothic, although they are aphotic and moody. The walls are corrective a abysmal blue-green, the floors are raw concrete, the tables are atramentous soapstone. It is not absolutely a date abode — the adamantine surfaces amplify babble a little too able-bodied — but it is not absolutely not a date place, either. Bodies dress up to eat at Cote (it sounds like coat), conceivably because the Japanese-built yakiniku grills set into the centermost of the tables afford about none of the smoke that can braid its way into your clothes afterwards a night in one of the actual barbecue palaces on 32nd Street.
After demography cocktail orders (the rosé slushie, busy with a cardboard flamingo, tastes the way wine does back you are 8 years old), servers will action a bout of the card that ends with a able endorsement of the “butcher’s feast.” This is a set menu, at $45 a person, with creamy aflame eggs in a pot, two axiological Korean stews, pickles, bill and, at the centermost of it all, a dealer’s best of four cuts of beef. Afterwards all that has been cleared, boilerplate bendable serve beneath a doodle of soy caramel appears in little cardboard cups with little board spoons.
The meats at my best contempo butcher’s barbecue were hanger steak, the reddish-purple of a aboriginal bruise; a rib-eye calm with a accessory of rib-eye cap, both blush and spiderwebbed with white veins of fat; a thickish slab of flatiron steak, said to be the artefact of a cow who had Wagyu on one ancillary of the ancestors and Angus on the other; and assuredly galbi, abbreviate ribs in a candied soy marinade. The added cuts in the butcher’s barbecue alter but galbi is a constant, as it should be.
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The meats came out early, while the gas barbecue broiled up. The wire cage over it was abreast with a cube of beef fat, and again the beef went on, one cut at a time. Our server angry the meat once, again absolved away, and one of my guests started to anguish that the meat would burn. But the bonfire were low, and the beef browned gradually.
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The gas burners at Cote will never accord you the sharp, dark, crackling edges that you acquisition in the charcoal-grilled meats at Mapo Korean BBQ in Queens (and about boilerplate abroad in the city). The beef, though, is in all likelihood the best at any Korean barbecue abode in New York. Its two abutting competitors for steak supremacy are apparently Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong and Gaonnuri, and neither can bout Cote for affluence and concentrated flavor.
One night I abandoned the butcher’s barbecue aisle and went off-road so I could try some sirloin that had been ripening bench for 138 days. Steaks age-old that continued are generally declared as funky, but the chat doesn’t awning this allotment of meat. It tasted like article added than beef, or maybe above beef, added additive than protein. At $80 for six ounces, it was not my cup of barley tea, but it may be yours.
Next time, I’ll stick to the alley added catholic by. The butcher’s barbecue takes in best of the menu’s highlights, avoids the lowlights, and does so at a actual acceptable amount for a steak supper.
No amount what or how you order, though, you will accept to argue with Cote’s notions of back to serve the condiments and ancillary dishes that accomplish the aberration amid Korean barbecue and a abundance of broiled meat. Pickled cauliflower and soy-marinated chayote (both actual good), bill and ssamjang (the brewed bean paste) access as the beef starts cooking. Rice doesn’t about-face up until amid through the meal, back you’re assuredly brought pickled daikon, kimchi, kimchi bouillon and brewed bean-paste stew. Gochujang may appearance up at the alpha or at halftime.
There is no one appropriate way to eat Korean barbecue, but bodies who like to array the meat into bill or shiso with a agglomeration of rice and a pickled banknote blade will admiration why Cote accoutrements the ancillary dishes out in stages.
That isn’t the abandoned case of the missing kimchi. I couldn’t aftertaste it in the absurd rice “paella” with kimchi and Wagyu. The basin didn’t accept abundant in accepted with paella, either. I wouldn’t affliction what it was alleged if it were delicious, but like some of the added attempts to alleviate Korean custom, it came off as timid.
Simon Kim, the owner, keeps adage in interviews that Cote is a Korean steakhouse. I accept why he wants to draw absorption to the steak, but anybody who shows up assured a kimchi-fied Smith & Wollensky is activity to be actual confused.
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More acceptable Korean dishes tended to aftertaste added complete. If you appetite added starch than rice alone, the angular aureate noodles in hot anchovy borsch are simple and delicious. Cold noodles afflicted at the table with burst apples, bill and gochujang are spicy, candied and refreshing. There’s a actual acceptable dolsot bibimbap, with a chewy basal band area the rice meets the searingly hot bowl.
Aside from the meat locker, the added advantageous abstraction Cote adopted from steakhouses is a wine account that is called with beef in apperception and can run into absolute money if you’re not careful. Anyone acquisitive to acquisition a red for beneath than $100 will acquisition that a quick glance at, say, California or the Côte d’Or can be discouraging. But Victoria James, who wrote the list, begin some pockets of affordability in Beaujolais, Southern France, Corsica and Switzerland, and she makes a baby chance out of the wines by the glass, all caked from magnums.
Does Brouilly go with ssamjang? Can a Patrimonio get forth with galbi? I didn’t apperceive I capital answers to these questions afore Cote came along, but now I do.
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Atmosphere Cote’s angry ablaze and modernist architecture are in advised adverse to the sprawling barbecue palaces of 32nd Street. Service was all-a-quiver in the aboriginal days, now assertive and actual helpful.
Sound Can get rough.
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Recommended Dishes Butcher’s feast; dolsot bibimbap; jan-chi somyun; bi-bim somyun. Appetizers, $12 to $18; capital courses, $34 to $44; set card with four cuts of beef, appetizers, ancillary dishes and dessert, $45.
Drinks and Wine Well-calibrated affair and a wine account that could angle to baptize a few added affordable bottles amid the Bordeaux, Burgundies and Californian powerhouses.
Price $$ (moderate)
Open Daily for dinner.
Reservations Accepted.
Wheelchair Access Dining allowance and an attainable bathroom are on the sidewalk level.
What the Stars Mean Ratings ambit from aught to four stars. Aught is poor, fair or satisfactory. One star, good. Two stars, actual good. Three stars, excellent. Four stars, extraordinary.
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