Yeoksam team dinner with Okinawa draft beer 3+1 and eel bowl: Chisot

Rising flames, rising energy on every bite — Chisot, the Nagoya-style freshwater eel rice bowl spot, haha.

This is the place to taste hitsumabushi grilled over binchotan charcoal, packed with smoky char flavor 🔥

Even in Gangnam, it feels like you've landed in Japan — a Yeoksam-dong restaurant serving authentic Nagoya-style hitsumabushi 😛😛

What kind of restaurant is Chisot Yeoksam Main Branch, and why it suits work meetings and team dinners

Chisot Yeoksam Main Branch is a clean, tidy Gangnam Japanese restaurant that serves hitsumabushi (eel rice bowl) as a full table set. Since it's considered a nourishing, energy-boosting dish, office workers often come for business meetings, lunch get-togethers, and team dinners — apparently it's also great for blind dates, wedding invitation gatherings, and date nights 🩷

What is hitsumabushi?

• Hitsu (ひつ, 桶): a wooden container or bowl
• Mabushi (まぶし, まぶす): to sprinkle evenly, to mix

So it means 'Nagoya-style eel rice bowl served in a wooden bowl, meant to be mixed and eaten'!

It's an eel rice bowl you can enjoy three ways in one dish — first taste it plain, then add yakumi (chives, dried seaweed flakes, wasabi) for more flavor, and finally pour over ochazuke (rice in savory broth) to finish it off warm, savoring the lingering aftertaste in whichever way suits you 😋

What makes the eel at Chisot taste so good?

• Chisot uses only grade-1 domestic Japonica freshwater eel.
• A special tare sauce, aged 72 hours with vegetables and other healthy ingredients, is layered on.
• It's grilled three times over top-grade binchotan charcoal for a deep, rich flavor!

Chisot spares no time or care in crafting the perfect bite 👍

Hitsumabushi, capturing the authentic tradition of Nagoya, Japan — the home of eel cuisine! Experience a bite of eel where the subtle smoky char and the deep umami of the tare sauce come together in harmony at Chisot near Yeoksam Station, haha.

Chisot grills the thick, hearty eel fully over charcoal so it's ready to eat right away, and it's also close to Gangnam hotels like Josun Palace Hotel and Shilla Stay Yeoksam 😉

Chisot Yeoksam menu: mini, sang and teuksang hitsumabushi plus lunch bento

There's also an evening-only set: nourishing domestic Japonica eel soup plus grilled eel (salt or tare) — a great combo!

Hitsumabushi comes in three sizes — mini, sang, and teuksang — and I had the sang size 😋

Weekday lunch only, there's also a salmon sashimi unagi bento, char siu unagi bento, and chicken nanban unagi bento.

There's also superior sake-don, shoyu sake-don, char siu don, kombu-jime aged superior salmon sashimi, mochi tofu, potato croquette, vegetable croquette, curry croquette, whole shrimp croquette, and cream cheese croquette!

Evening drinks and snacks at Chisot: Okinawa draft beer 3+1 and animal-label sake

For side dishes, there's spicy pollack roe and egg hot pot, ichiban assorted fish cake hot pot, and spicy charcoal-grilled scallop and pollack roe yakiudon 🍜

There's also butter-grilled pollack roe, chicken nanban with special sauce, and an assortment of 5 kinds of croquettes, haha.

The Okinawa draft beer comes with a 3+1 deal, and for spirits there's Ilpum Jinro, Hwayo 25, Hwayo 41, soju, beer, and soft drinks!

There's also a cute animal-label sake lineup: Kappabara no Yuzuyu, Junmai Akkanbe, Junmai Shiba no Egao, and Junmai Polar Bear's Tears, haha.

Plus Songjukmae Junmai, Junmai 750, Hanagizakura, Nouvelle Junmai Ginjo, Renson Kourin, Ganbare Otosan, Hanayagu Junmai, Bizan Clear, Junmai Daiginjo, Onna Nakase, and cold sake decanters, and more, haha.

In the evening there's a wide range of side dishes to pair with drinks for group gatherings, and at lunch it's a great spot for a satisfying meal!

Meet the freshwater eel rice bowl, a nourishing dish beloved even in Japan, at Chisot near Yeoksam Station 💜

How to eat Chisot's hitsumabushi in four steps

First, use the wooden paddle to divide the eel rice bowl into four portions.

• Scoop out just the eel and rice into a bowl to taste the pure flavor of hitsumabushi.
• Mix in the seaweed, wasabi, and chives for a richer flavor experience.
• Pour over Chisot's signature ochazuke and enjoy the warm, lingering aftertaste.
• Enjoy it however you liked best out of the three ways, and soak up Chisot's rising energy!

The sang hitsumabushi table set with 72-hour aged tare

An eel rice bowl made with grade-1 domestic Japonica freshwater eel, glazed with a special tare sauce aged 72 hours and grilled three times over charcoal!

It's a neat, tidy table set, haha. Let's dig into a hearty eel rice bowl 😛😛

A cute cocktail shrimp sits atop the soft, pudding-like steamed egg.

If you run low on chives, wasabi, or dried seaweed flakes, just ask — refills are available!

Seeing the plump eel grilled to a golden brown, don't you just feel your energy rising too, haha.

Beer is a must, so cheers with a cold Okinawa draft beer — ahhh 😆😆

Join in a special moment of great food and rising energy at Chisot near Yeoksam Station 💪

Chisot Yeoksam Main Branch hours and how to get there

Open daily 11:00–21:30 (break time 15:00–17:00), last order 14:30 and 21:00, closed every Sunday.

59 Bongeunsa-ro 30-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul (669 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul), South Korea.