Restaurants where you cook your own meat? (London)

Vanilla

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Hi all,

I overheard someone talking about restaurants where they give you a selection of raw meat and you cook it yourself, as a group, in the middle. Either on a griddle, hot stone or even a hot oil mix in a pot.

Does anyone know

a.) Any restaurants like this in Central London?
b.) The name of this style of cooking


I had heard it was popular with Korean restaurants.....
 
Look for somewhere that does chinese hot pot or bbq, that should be the easiest to find. The technique is common across all eastern asia.
 
A lot of Korean places do this. Went to one myself in Central London. It was off Regent St, can't remember the name of it though.
 
Duff-Man said:
Sounds like a recipe for food poisoning and subsequent lawsuits if you ask me...
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To be honest, I don't think they give it to you raw for exactly that reason. More like rare/medium rare and then you do the rest to your liking.

Looking at it, I'm 99% sure the place I went to was Myung Ga. I'd recommend it.
 
There is a Mongolian place in Newcastle that does this, but the chef cooks it - You select your raw ingredients (including the raw meat), noodles, sauce, pass it over, then they cook on a hot plate in front of you.
 
There's a Swiss restaurant in Soho I went to a few years back, famous for its fondue but they did two types of beef fondue as well, one in hot oil with beef chunks and one in hot water where the beef was sliced very thinly. There's no problem under cooking the beef as long as you like it rare :)

Edit: found it - http://www.stmoritz-restaurant.co.uk/
 
Why on earth would you want to go out for a meal, and pay to cook your own food? Might as well just stay at home and do it for free, surely? Jeez man, restaurants like this sure see people coming! What a clever gimmick!
 
scorza said:
There's a Swiss restaurant in Soho I went to a few years back, famous for its fondue but they did two types of beef fondue as well, one in hot oil with beef chunks and one in hot water where the beef was sliced very thinly. There's no problem under cooking the beef as long as you like it rare :)
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Ahhh yes! I had this when i was in Zurich a few months ago!

Thanks for reminding me, may do this instead. Do you remember the name?
 
londonbairn said:
I don't think that's the point; it's quite a fun thing to do socially with a group of people or a quirky date.
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This is exactly it, the fondue meal I had in Zurich was great fun, we were there for about 4 hours and it felt like one hour. Great social activity rather than just 'eat, drink, leave'
 
londonbairn said:
I don't think that's the point; it's quite a fun thing to do socially with a group of people or a quirky date.
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Vanilla said:
This is exactly it, the fondue meal I had in Zurich was great fun, we were there for about 4 hours and it felt like one hour. Great social activity rather than just 'eat, drink, leave'
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Precisely. Went there with an ex. We had a great night.

That was in my Korean cinema phase, so it was especially relevant, if I remember.
 
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