Hawksmoor Seven Dials

A British steak and seafood restaurant in Seven Dials, in Covent Garden. Perfect for pre and post-theatre in West End with set menu offering

Hawksmoor Seven Dials | Steak and Seafood Restaurant

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Hawksmoor Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London restaurant review

In the tourist trap heavy West End, Hawksmoor makes the We all ordered triple cooked chips.I mean, who honestly wants mash or salad when there’s deep fried potato available?The classic contrast of crispy and fluffy, Hawksmoor’s triple cooked chips were very good.

Saying that, I’ve had better in Cardiff.The only real decision to be made was between bearnaise, bone marrow gravy, anchovy hollandaise and stilton hollandaise.The sister-in-law and I ordered a textbook bearnaise, served in a sauce boat for ease of guzzling.

Strewn with generous chunks of umami rich blue cheese I was only too happy to spoon down her leftovers.Whilst Mrs G tapped out when it came to dessert, the sister-in-law and I ploughed on.A peanut butter shortbread is the kind of thing I’ll fantasise about for years to come; particularly, during the mid-afternoon lull at work when I’m resisting a trip to the vending machine for a Double Decker.Warm shortbread encased a hot chocolate ganache and peanut butter.

It was topped with a scoop of salted caramel ice cream - salty and sweet in equal measure.In contrast, a buttermilk panna cotta was the poorer relation who still happened to be a millionaire.Creamy, but not overwhelmingly so, it was well balanced by a tart raspberry coulis and a layer of whole berries.

The serving of the dish in a glass cleverly masked the fact the panna cotta was a touch on the runny side.I’ve hopefully waxed lyrical enough about Hawksmoor Seven Dials to convince you that a meal there is a very very good idea.

Hawksmoor - the best steak restaurant in the UK

A labour of love to find the perfect beef inspired us to try to open the best steak restaurant in London.

Happily, we received great reviews and a few awards which encouraged us to broaden the menu and aim to be amongst the best restaurants of any kind in the UK.

The menus revolve around the best ingredients we can find – whether it be beef from grass-fed native cattle, sustainable seafood from around the British coast, seasonal fruits and vegetables or great British cheeses – and are served by friendly people who love what they do.

Hawksmoor Seven Dials, 11 Langley Street, London WC2 | The ...

This autumn, foodie fashion victims will mostly be eating Hawksmoor's kimchi burger, the latest must-order to hit London's dining scene.

It's only available on the bar menu, but they'll serve it in the restaurant if you ask – just the kind of insider knowledge that stokes up the desirability of a must-eat dish.

The original branch in Spitalfields was a reinvention of the traditional British steak house, specialising in carefully sourced beef from The Ginger Pig.

Hawksmoor's steaks are often called the best in London, and Charlie's sirloin, a hefty, bone-in slab for £28, lived up to that billing.

The patty itself, exuding the heady whiff of beef marrow, held its own against the zingily hot kimchi, which fizzes through a range of flavours, from sweet to citric, leaving a smile on your face, and a chilli-induced trout pout on the lips.

Hawksmoor Seven Dials | The Original Spitalfields Restaurant Has ...

The original Hawksmoor in Spitalfields picked up a sister venue in 2011, located in the old Combe’s brewery within Seven Dials near Covent Garden.

By 1880 the Combe’s brewery was the second largest of its kind in London, where every year Lord Mayor Harvey Christian Combe hosted a steak dinner attended by the great and the good.

Hawskmoor Seven Dials encourages those patrons who might be interested in doing so to establish a Beef Steak Club.

They were part members’ club, part secret society and all based around the wonder and marvel of beef steaks.

Guidelines for their establishment come from one of the most famous clubs of its time: the Sublime Society of Beef Steaks which suggests 3 meetings per year, payment by whip; referring to members as “The Steaks” and including no more than 24 members.

Hawksmoor Seven Dials restaurant review 2011 January London ...

The wine list, as at its older sister, is generously priced at the higher end of the list, and put together with considerable thought.

The leaves had plenty of dressing, which to my taste could have had a fraction more vinegar relative to oil, but this was certainly pleasant (13/20), and the apple gave some acidity to balance the cheese.

The burger featured a brioche bap supplied from the very good St John bakery, beef with a little bone marrow, and traditional topping of lettuce, cheese, onion and tomato.

The meat had good taste and a hint of charcoal from the grill, and even the tomato ketchup was made from scratch (14/20).

I took advantage of the express menu, and just had tap water to drink, but my salad, burger and chips came to £20 before service.

Hawksmoor Seven Dials, 11 Langley Street, London WC2 | The ...

This autumn, foodie fashion victims will mostly be eating Hawksmoor's kimchi burger, the latest must-order to hit London's dining scene.

It's only available on the bar menu, but they'll serve it in the restaurant if you ask – just the kind of insider knowledge that stokes up the desirability of a must-eat dish.

The original branch in Spitalfields was a reinvention of the traditional British steak house, specialising in carefully sourced beef from The Ginger Pig.

Hawksmoor's steaks are often called the best in London, and Charlie's sirloin, a hefty, bone-in slab for £28, lived up to that billing.

The patty itself, exuding the heady whiff of beef marrow, held its own against the zingily hot kimchi, which fizzes through a range of flavours, from sweet to citric, leaving a smile on your face, and a chilli-induced trout pout on the lips.

Hawksmoor Seven Dials, review: It means business, and that ...

Few tables in London come laden with as much drama as they do at Hawksmoor.

Hawksmoor means business, and that business is steak.

The meat comes courtesy of The Ginger Pig, the much lauded and certainly very busy butchers, before it enters the hands of Hawksmoor’s god-given grilling skills.

As tender as it is flavoursome, as compliant to falling apart as it is beguiling for another bite, it’s difficult to imagine much improving Hawksmoor’s steaks.

If it’s a little early for steak, the sharing breakfast served at Hawksmoor Guildhall is affair consisting of smoked bacon chop, pork, beef, & mutton sausages, black pudding, short-rib bubble & squeak, grilled bone marrow, trotter baked beans and also some other things that aren’t meat.

Classics Revisited: Hawksmoor Seven Dials

Hawksmoor’s calling card of steak and cocktails is as alluring now as when the first restaurant opened in Spitalfields in 2006.

The steak isn’t just great; it’s the best in London, sourced from grass-fed, Yorkshire-bred cows supplied by The Ginger Pig butcher and grilled over charcoal in the fiery blast of a Josper oven.

If you like your steak rare, go for the 55-day aged rump, a muscly hunk of firm, pink meat sealed inside a smoky, charred crust that delivers a wallop of deep, almost gamey flavour and a workout for the jaw.

There are also large cuts (T-bone, porterhouse, prime rib, chateaubriand) in sizes upwards of 500g – but then you wouldn’t have room for side orders almost as good as the steak.

Half a native lobster to pimp your steak into surf-and-turf territory.

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Meal for two, including wine and service: £150 If a city gets the restaurants it deserves then London has clearly been a very good girl of late.

At Hawksmoor Air Street even something as simple as the anchovy hollandaise gets me excitable.

The restaurants that have preceded this – in Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Guildhall – have proved that it's possible to dedicate a kitchen to seared bits of aged cow without assuming a faux American accent; that there really is such a thing as a British steak house.

It's a stonkingly good tranche of fish, roasted on the bone then finished over the grill to give a light char, and clearly comes from a large animal, which is as it should be.

Alongside this we order a side of Jansson's temptation, a Swedish dish, interleaving scalloped potatoes with salted fish, onions and cream, and then long cooked.

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Meal for two £45 The Sportsman, on the low, scrubby north Kent shore at Seasalter just outside Whitstable, is probably the most influential restaurant in Britain you've never heard of.

There are stories about The Sportsman: of the four Texan ladies who, reading about it in an American food magazine, hired a black cab from the Dorchester in London to drive them all the way there and back again; of the Japanese food bloggers who make the pilgrimage to photograph the dishes; of the huge-name chefs who make a point of coming here when they fly in from around the world each year, for the annual announcement of The World's 50 Best Restaurants.

He will bring Japanese technique – a form of his own dashi, made with local seaweed – to bear on the glorious seafood from these parts.

There's a perfectly cooked tranche of brill in a smoked herring roe sauce of a seemingly unending depth; the best local lamb breast braised, then breaded and grilled.

Tasting menu for two £160 One of the clearest trends of the past decade has been the growing recognition that non-European food is not one bland homogenous mass; that while Britain's high streets may be full of something called Indian restaurants, there really is no such thing as an easily codified "Indian" culinary tradition.