A new steakhouse, Block Soho, opens in St Anne’s Court, Soho next week on the site formerly occupied by another steakhouse, Zelman Meats, which closed here in March last year. Block Soho is the second launch of the summer from Roger Payne’s Enhanced Hospitality group, following the opening last month of the Maddox Tavern in […]
No sooner have Boris and Carrie Johnson belatedly celebrated their nuptials with a South African braai on the Bamfords’ Daylesford Park estate than a South African-style steakhouse opens in Mayfair. Meat & Wine Co, which launches next Monday, 8 August, in Curzon Street, is the brainchild of Bradley Michael, a former personal training instructor in […]
Prolific Glasgow chef-restaurateur Nico Simeone is to launch his latest venture in his home town next week – Chateau-X, with a short menu built around two Chateaubriand steaks for £30. Opening on Wednesday 8 December in Finnieston, it comes hot on the heels of Beat 6, which opened last month on the opposite side of the […]
Affordable steak house Flat Iron has secured a £5m investment to expand the brand. The move follows an ambitious opening in King’s Cross last year, which continued the concept, albeit in a ‘poshed up’ fashion, at a 110-cover site on Caledonian Road. Flat Iron, described as “simple, yet very effective” by reporters, has sourced a […]
Mayfair’s Met Bar – a venue where, back in the day, A-listers clambered over one another to push past the velvet rope – is to relaunch as a grill restaurant. The bar first opened in 1997 and Madonna, Patsy Kensit, Liam Gallagher, The Spice Girls, Cher, and Kate Moss were all regulars. Detail on the […]
Zelman Meats St Paul’s has closed. The steak restaurant completed its final service on July 27. Its sister restaurant in Soho won Best Steak restaurant at the Harden’s Restaurant Awards 2017. Dave Strauss, director of operations at Goodman Restaurants, which operates the brand, said on social media: “A sad day but it wasn’t working. Good […]
Following a £1.8m crowdfunding campaign, Martin William’s M Restaurants brand has been rolled-out to the ‘burbs – a move, he says, has been driven in part by Brexit as well as commuter demand for decent dining on their doorsteps. The Twickenham branch of the restaurateur’s luxurious steak and seafood restaurants opened on 11 September. It […]
Treat him to London’s best steak at Guinea Grill 3 course Sunday lunch: £46 Voted the best steak restaurant in London by our readers last year, this “old-fashioned” grill room, in a “cute” Mayfair mews serves brilliant cuts of beef, “simply cooked and fabulous”. The perfect place to take your pa. Whisky, cigars, steak, jazz… […]
The steak boom shows no sign of running out of sizzle, with Hawksmoor announcing a sixth London branch at Southwark’s Borough Market to open in February. There is also a branch in Manchester. The new restaurant will accommodate 140 diners on two floors in a former Victorian hop warehouse later used by a fruit importer and […]
A steak restaurant and liquor bar dedicated to the humble hanger steak (traditionally known as the ‘Butcher’s Cut’) will open this summer offering cuts from just £10 a pop (or £20 for two people sharing). Hanger comes to Fulham courtesy of first time restaurateur Patrick Falla, who worked at the likes of D&D London before striking […]
