Eat Out London!The Guinea Grill
Enjoy the best steak and open grill in Mayfair at The Guinea with real and guest ales. Enjoy private dining in London, best aged steak and Sunday roast
The Guinea Grill | Best steak and open grill in Mayfair, London
The Guinea is a Mayfair institution; there’s been an Inn on this site since 1423.
Our restaurant, the Guinea Grill opened in 1952.
We specialise in serving dry aged, grass fed English and Scotch beef from an open grill.
The Guinea Grill restaurant is open Monday to Friday from 12pm-3pm and 6pm-10.30pm, and on Saturday from 6pm-10.30pm.
From the 12th June we will also be opening for Sunday lunch, 12pm-3.30pm.
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The Guinea Grill review: A 'carnivorous cavalcade' | Daily Mail Online
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The Guinea Grill peeks out from its immaculate Mayfair mews like a silk handkerchief tucked in the top pocket of an Anderson and Sheppard suit.
It has little time for modish fads and churlish fashion, instead offering no-nonsense, straightforwardly stiff upper lip British tucker, seemingly unchanged since Nancy Sikes met her brutal end.
At The Guinea Grill, the magnificently Edwardian meets the quietly modern.
A fat morsel of rare, minerally sirloin steak nestles next to a great peppery slab of ox heart, reassuringly chewy and surprisingly subtle.
A couple of slices of bacon rib steak add smoke and salt, while a fried egg, garlicky field mushroom and properly grilled tomato are almost lost in this marvellous morass.
The Guinea Grill | Londonist
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This pub has been voted by our readers as one of the best in Mayfair.
A charming old pub, though not a place you'd be likely to stumble across tucked away as it is on Bruton Place.
There has been a pub on the site for over 500 years (longer than most of Mayfair) and its current landlords, Youngs, have been at the helm since 1888.
Rounding things off — oddly — is a selection of autographs of famous visitors to the pub, displayed in the gents, including those of Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, Mel Gibson, Michael Douglas and...Graham Norton?
This is also, quite possibly, the only pub in London to display a photo of a ruddy-cheeked Eddie Large wielding a knife (see gallery below).
The Guinea Grill restaurant review 2012 May London | British ...
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The Guinea Grill is something of a London institution, serving steaks and pies since 1952.
The wine list has choices such as Terra Mater Paso Sol Sauvignon Blanc 2011 at £21 for a wine that you can find in the high street for around £6, Lucien Boillot Volnay Cote De Beaune 2008 at £72 for a wine that retails at £29, up to grander wines such as Gruaud Larose St Julien 1988 at £285 for a wine that will set you back £88 in a shop.
This restaurant has a reputation for its pies, but I confess to being rather disappointed by the steak and mushroom pie here (£14.85).
Its advantage was that it had good quality steak, so this was clearly a cut above the usual pub fare.
Personally I prefer pastry to a suet crust on a pie anyway, but I just found the pie rather ordinary; I have eaten much better pies than this (such as at The Royal Oak).
The Guinea Grill, Mayfair, London
The Guinea Grill - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
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In 1888 Young's brewery took over the lease of the Guinea and we remain a Young’s pub to this day.
Throughout our history, the Guinea remained a simple Inn providing ale to the working people of Mayfair.
Suddenly the Guinea Grill was a hot ticket, film stars, politicians, world leaders and the wealthy flocked to the back room of our tiny pub.
We're founder members of the Scotch beef club and we’ve been serving the very best steaks for 60 years.
This is the basis of our continued popularity together with the fact that our restaurant is within a unique London pub.
Guinea Grill, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style ...
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Meal for two, including drinks and service: £160 If the Guinea Grill in Mayfair was a new opening it would be hotter than the cooking range by the dining room door over which they flame their steaks.
It would be full of bloggers holding their smart phones high and flat over plates of prime Scottish beef, and lifestyle journalists swooning at the commitment to old-fashioned virtues; to the application of frilly paper collars around steak and kidney pies.
I was brought here by a Radio 4 producer of the old school, who believed most things could be solved via the committed application of grilled animal and red wine.
A sirloin steak is thick cut, medium rare as promised, but properly seared until the outer layer on the ribbon of fat gives a light crack beneath your teeth.
■ Another great standard bearer for steak throughout the dark years was Popeseye, named after a cut of rump.