Seven Square 세븐스퀘어

Window seats on the second floor of The Plaza hotel look straight down on Seoul Plaza, and City Hall Station connects through the underground arcade. Weekday dinners run as a single seating, while weekends split into two. The buffet trims the usual sprawl to four live-cooking stations: Chinese, Japanese, grill and dessert. Lamb chops lead the grill, which also cooks steak, LA galbi (flanken-cut short ribs) and lobster to order, and pastas are made on the spot. On the Chinese side, Peking duck and buldojang, a long-simmered soup of meat and seafood stocks, stand out, while steamed snow crab and dim sum hide under wooden lids that are easy to miss. Dessert means fresh-pressed juice, a chocolate fountain and house-made ice cream in flavors such as ripe persimmon.