Hawksmoor

A British steak and seafood restaurant in Spitalfields, by Shoreditch. Great cocktails and Sunday Roasts

Hawksmoor Spitalfields | Steak and Seafood Restaurant

This Spitalfields steakhouse has wooed much of London since opening in 2006; word-of-blog has only served to create an even bigger buzz around the restaurant and its food.

Time Out Spitalfields was our first restaurant, and the general view is that it is where the ‘Hawksmoor spirit’ is best embodied – many of the staff have worked there for years and would never consider elsewhere.

We are located just down the road from our namesake Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church Spitalfields, 2 minutes walk from Shoreditch High Street and 10 minutes walk from Liverpool Street, Old Street and Aldgate stations.

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Hawksmoor restaurant review 2007 December London | British ...

These were accompanied by some triple cooked chips that were less good than I recall from the last visit (12/20), some rather soggy greens and a really good macaroni cheese (15/20).

The fillet steak was very good indeed, the meat having a pleasing amount of fat in it and had fine flavour; the texture was excellent (16/20).

The triple cooked chips that accompanied the steak (£3 extra) were not a patch on the ones at the Fat Duck on which they are modelled, but were still good (14/20).

For treats they have the rare Kistler Hyde Vineyard Chardonnay 2004 at £110 (a real bargain given the retail price of £94) while the rare 1994 vintage of Vega Sicilia Unico is £225 against a retail price (if you can find it) of £181.

At more modest levels, Bonny Doon Cigare Volant at £47.50 compares to a retail price of around £20.

Hawksmoor Borough, London Bridge: restaurant review | Foodism

Seafood comes from Brixham market, masterminded by Mitch Tonks of vaunted restaurant The Seahorse, while veg is also seasonal, local and sustainable.

The group's latest site, in Borough Market, goes one step further with this ethos, using produce from its neighbouring suppliers like Cannon & Cannon charcuterie, Wright Brothers' oysters and veg from Natoora.

As for wine, we were guided by the excellent sommelier, and plumped for a light, juicy, spicy red Les Granges Paquenesses 'Le Plou' 2015 poulsard from Jura, France, which was on a dedicated wine list curated to pair with the Market Specials menu.

But while the standard menu is as incredible as usual, if you don't order largely from the Market Specials list here, you're doing something very wrong.

We had Wright Brothers' oysters, roasted with umami-laden bone marrow; heritage tomatoes topped with melting lardo; monkfish, grilled simply over charcoal; and Jersey Royals, thick spears of asparagus, and a host of other seasonal veg.

Hawksmoor Air Street, London W1, restaurant review - Telegraph

I had the D-rump steak (£20), with bone-marrow gravy (£3) and deep-fried oysters (£14).

I partly blame myself, I partly blame the descriptions on the menu, but I do very slightly believe the kitchen isn't thinking hard enough about what people want to eat, what they want next to it, and how to make a steak really memorable, rather than a chore.

D's fish was good, but not outstanding, and he couldn't picture the creature sea-leaping – though, for sure, we could both imagine how big it must have been.

Try the 45-day-aged rump, hung for double the standard time to add flavour (£25 for 400g) Serving everything from classic steak frites (£14.50) to an 8oz fillet of highly prized, marbled wagyu (at a whopping £55), this stylish restaurant has a cut for every appetite (and budget).

Starters such as duck salad with a gingery soy dressing (£7.95), and tiger prawns with a spicy ponzu dip (£8.75) offer sprightly, fresh flavours before the main event – expertly cooked steaks including a 10oz rib-eye glazed with red wine (£21.95)

Jay Rayner reviews: Hawksmoor, E1 | Life and style | The Guardian

When a new tapas bar scored an own goal by failing to even take an order in 45 minutes, Jay Rayner and friend abandoned their wait and headed for a match-winning steak house 157 Commercial street, London E1 (020 7247 7392) Meal for two, including wine and service, £80 - 110 Everybody has their limits, and mine is 45 minutes.

Actually it's about 15 minutes, but as Barrafina, a tapas bar on Frith Street in London's Soho, is a new place from the Hart brothers (who run the established Spanish restaurant Fino), I thought I should give it a chance.

All their meat comes from the Ginger Pig, a former Observer Food Monthly producer of the year, and is served in proper sizes.

The meat had proper flavour, a serious char outside and pink to purple inside.

A word on drinks: Hawksmoor is managed by Nick Strangeway, one of London's great barmen, and he will enthuse endlessly to you about the classic cocktails they have resurrected; think Georgia Mint Juleps, Black Forest Sazeracs and the austere-sounding Puritan.

Restaurant review: Hawksmoor Air Street, London W1 | Life and ...

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.

Hawksmoor Knightsbridge | Restaurants in Brompton, London

The SW3 version of this mini-chain of excellent steakhouses plays to a Knightsbridge crowd, with luxury seafood a major part of the otherwise meaty menu.

It was a bizarre – yet bizarrely fun – place; a dark, windowless basement, with garish tiles and giant disco balls, serving pizza to a party-loving Knightsbridge crowd.

Well, Frankie’s is gone, and in its place stands the latest branch of Hawksmoor, which couldn’t be more different.

In true SW3 fashion, it’s had a facelift and splurged on a new wardrobe, now combining ‘classic Hawksmoor’ (leather seating, a ‘clubby’ vibe) with plenty for the ultra-wealthy local clientele (pale marble, gorgeous loos).

The menu is even more noticeably ‘Knightsbridge’, with meat playing second fiddle to luxury seafood – from oysters and caviar (with or without frozen vodka) to crustacea, including all manner of lobsters.