Steak – GRUBSTANCE

Cocktails Covent Garden Craft beer/ales Dress to impress Good for Groups Steak

STK Review – The Strand

My first experience of STK was in the Meat Packing District of New York in 2012 during a gorgeous May…

1 Michelin Star Counter Dining Good for dates Good for Groups Informal No bookings Open Kitchen Seafood Spain Steak Tapas

Sabor Review – A tapas titan in London

I recall the many engrossing nights perched on the bar at the original Barrafina on Frith Street, they’ve been around…

Cocktails Good for dates Posh Nosh Steak

London Steak House Company… Then came the beef short ribs – two slabs of melting, sticky pieces of flesh with a good coating of BBQ glaze

The London Steak House Company formed in 2008 and first opened in the City just off Bishopsgate – you’ve probably…

Cheap Eats Craft beer/ales Farringdon Gastropub Open Kitchen Steak

The Eagle Clerkenwell – the bifeana is boss

The Eagle is a gastropub, a bare bones one that extoll the virtues of simple cooking as a pub should….

Cheap Eats Cocktails Craft beer/ales Informal No bookings Shoreditch Steak

Flat Iron Shoreditch Review… It has boss levels of umami with salt, fat and cheese caramelised in all of the right places. I can’t endorse it enough.

Charlie Carroll is behind the roaring success they call Flat Iron. After a stint at Wahaca, he went out on…

City Curry Good for dates Good for Groups Informal Open Kitchen Steak

Temper City Review… there are dangling lacquered skinned birds smoking above the fire and huge slabs of prime ribs on the griddle.

Temper City opens in the summer for 2017 to a bring a curry and gin themed night out to the…

Good for dates Informal South of the River Steak

Buenos Aires Review Wimbledon – What I got was a really tender piece of steak, full of carbonic sear…

Argentina is a country besotted with it’s beef, apparently they eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner – relentlessly. So…

Cocktails Craft beer/ales Good for dates Good for Groups Great British Chef Informal London Bridge Open Kitchen South of the River Steak

Hixster Bankside Review – the place wreaks of City shenanigans..

Hixster Bankside is Chef Mark Hix’s 7th restaurant in London and holds the same chicken-or-steak notion as his famed Tramshed…

City City Breakfast Cocktails Craft beer/ales Fat Friday Good for dates Good for Groups Informal Steak

Hawksmoor Guildhall Review – One of the good things in life…

Hawksmoor is a ten restaurant contingent spread across London with thumb prints in Manchester, Edinburgh and now New York. Hawksmoor…

Farringdon Good for dates Good for Groups Informal Italian Open Kitchen Steak

Macellaio – Double muscling beef..

Macellaio RC Italian for “butcher”, is founded by Roberto Costa; he first opened in South Kensington in October 2012, before…