800°С Contemporary Steak

800°C Contemporary Steak is a two-level meat restaurant on Bolshoy Patriarshiy Pereulok, overlooking Patriarch’s Pond in Moscow. Its cuisine centres on carefully selected steaks and other meat dishes, with a menu that also includes gourmet street food, breakfast, a wine selection and a bar menu. The setting combines a destination restaurant feel with a location suited to a meal around the pond.

The restaurant’s defining feature is its use of ovens maintained at 800°C. This high-heat cooking creates a pronounced crust on the steaks while keeping the meat juicy. The menu covers both classic and alternative cuts, giving the kitchen room to work with different textures and levels of richness. Meat is sourced from producers in Japan, Argentina, Uruguay and Russia, and the restaurant uses wet ageing, dry ageing and dry ageing with white mould.

Steaks are supported by a broad selection of sauces and side dishes, including a signature mashed-potato section with more than ten variations. The wider menu moves beyond traditional steakhouse cooking through its gourmet street-food dishes, while the breakfast offering includes meat-based plates, cottage-cheese dishes, lighter options with greens, syrniki and croissants. This range makes the restaurant suitable for a focused steak dinner as well as a more varied meal.

The atmosphere is polished but centred on the food, with the open high-heat cooking concept giving the restaurant a strong culinary identity. The two-floor layout works for different types of visits, from a meal built around a single cut to a longer gathering with several courses and drinks. The pond-side setting adds a neighbourhood dimension, while the menu’s international meat sourcing and ageing techniques give the restaurant a specialised steakhouse character.