With its Cornhill location, Silk & Grain – which has launched on the former site of The Door – could prove a handy hang-out for City types.

The menu remains very steak-focused (although now more British than Argentinean), but the owners have gone all-out on the bar and cocktail menu, hoping to make the bar as much a destination as the first floor dining room.

Open Monday-Friday, Silk & Grain offers concoctions that have had the dubious distinction of being ‘conditioned’ in metal and leather, as well as in glass and wooden barrels. There is a range of bar snack from the ‘grazing menu’, including Clonakilty black pudding ‘scotched’ quail’s eggs and British cheeses and charcuterie.

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