COTE Flatiron

Simon Kim's idea was to take two formats that appear to have nothing in common — the Korean barbecue restaurant and the American steakhouse — and discover they are the same building.He is right, and COTE is the proof. Both are about beef, both are about ritual, both are fundamentally social, and both have a very clear idea of what a good night looks like. What Kim did was take the conviviality and the tableside cooking of Korean barbecue and combine it with the sourcing, the wine programme and…