Hawksmoor Spitalfields

Best steak in London

Fantastic steak, great staff, good wine list.

I love Hawksmoor. Steaks at Goodman are as good, but Hawksmoor has much nicer atmosphere – cool, but without trying to be.

Side dishes are great, too, as are the ice creams: cornflake and popcorn both delicious.

Best bet is to go in bigger group (3-4 minimum), then order few different cuts – love the way they're presented, too, for everyone to dig in and share.

I've been wanting to come here for a while now as i have heard good review after good review, but i didn't come here for the steak, oh no no no the burger was at the top of my want list.
The bacon cheese burger arrived on our table and i was like a kid in a candy store, the bun was fluffy and light, the meat tender and juicy, each bite was meet with a groan , it was food porn, the triple cooked chips were really nice to, and went well with the Hawksmoor homemade ketchup. The wife had the beef roast and she claimed it was the best roast dinner she has ever had, and that's saying a lot. So onto the staff, the staff were all very friendly and looked after us pretty well, so all in all our Hawksmoor experience was a good one.

A must for any serious carnivore!
Simply the best cooked steak in town – just make sure you get there early enough before the chalk board gets wiped and that juicy Porterhouse is gone forever! Plus, the cocktails are simply amazing…particularly if ‘Shaky’ Pete is in residence. This is a man that can make a serious cocktail.

This is THE place to take a lover of meat! Accept no substitutions and just go and have a pre-dinner cocktail, order a Porterhouse (medium-rare) and feel the smile spread across your face in satisfaction!

My first visit to Hawksmoor and it was really very good. Simple orders on our part-Porterhouse Steaks and they were perfect! Great chips and a tomato salad. Simple but such high quality made for a great meal.

Service was great. Good wine list and proper old puds-trifle and sticky toffee pudding, both hit the spot.

With the Guildhall branch opening soon, Goodmans now has a run for their money!

After struggling to get a reservation in the restaurant for quite some time I plumped for an early 6pm sitting to see whether The Hawksmoor is all its cracked up to be. At 5.50pm the restaurant bar was already busy and had a good mix of people both city and hoxtonites together.

The char grilled squid starter which was served with fennel and orange was both original and extremely tasty with all ingredients complimenting one another perfectly. The lobster starter served with garlic butter was also a delight in itself. For the steaks we ordered from the blackboard the 800g Bone-in Prime Rib which was cooked medium, bursting with marbled fatty goodness. Sides of triple cooked chips, creamed spinach and asparagus were the perfect accompliments. Deserts of sticky toffee pudding and a chocolate brownie with ice cream topped of a thoroughly delightful meal.

Service was excellent at all times and i felt the attention one received from all staff was of an extremely high level. Something to note is that there is a definite benefit to arriving early in that the prime cuts of meat from the blackboard (which are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis) sell out extremely quickly. By the time we left at 8.30pm all the select sharing cuts had been sold out to a happy and fulfilled dining room.

Get there early to avoid disappointment…its a real gem is The Hawksmoor.

On the night we went it was exceptionally busy. Our food was excellent and the staff friendly and efficient. Whilst I liked the decor unfortunately I found the restaurant to be very noisy and having a normal conversation was impossible. If you're there on a busy night you'll be shouting to your companions to be heard. Best to avoid if your priority is the people you're with rather than the food.

I took my girlfriend to this gem last week and if you like steak and haven't gone yet, there's not much that I can say except: go. Now. One of the best steak restaurants in London, easy.

After hearing many reviews of Hawksmoor I finally went last night – thankfully with friends not clients. With accolades of ‘best steak in London’ ringing in my head I was really looking forward to a good meal. Palm and Goodmans have disappointed to the point where I was beginning to think Gaucho as the only viable steak house in town so to be let down so badly by Hawksmoor rankled somewhat.
To be fair it was a busy service with every table full but this should be no excuse to a professional organisation. The service was average at best. We had ordered some oysters to keep us going whilst our starters were being prepared – they arrived shortly after my scallop ( 1 scallop on a blob of champ for £13+) but before the further 5 minute delay for one of my friends lobster. The staff were apologetic and promised not ot charge for the oysters – fair enough.
The steaks eventually arrived – the plates were cold, the steaks were at best warm, the mushrooms were tepid, the spinach the same. The chips were hot however so that was ok… My fillet (£30) for some reason was stringy and cooked medium rare as I had requested – well the top was medium and the bottom rare. The rest of the party suffered no less. The 55 day aged rump – obviously aged in the supermarket fidge – was hard work according to my friends and although tasty, not worth the effort. The chips were nice…
We had a quiet word with the manager after eating and he was most apologetic and again removed some item from our bill. But this is not the point, the problems we experienced were really basic stuff – hot plates ain't hard.
Its a real shame as I was looking forward to this all week. Will I go again? Not sure. I would generally give anywhere a second chance and put it down to bad luck the first time. However £50 for steak, chips and veg stings a bit in the shabby end of Commercial Street. Guess its back to Gauco then…

A hard week at work means that Friday night is either “too tired to think straight” or “right, let's GO for it…”. Trekking across town to Hawksmoor on Commercial St this week we got a masterclass in how to have one's mindset transformed from the former to the latter: an unhesitating 10 out of 10 all round. What a find.
Atmosphere: an oasis of dark wood and animated buzz, a rather upmarket haven from the surrounding pubs and bars. Cocktail waiters who clearly know what they are doing (and are having a ball) make up sublime concoctions on the spot – the cocktail menu is worth a read for some of the unusual and interesting offerings, and at around £8 each the pricing is spot on. Excellent service at the bar and from the staff who took the trouble to come over and let us know that our table was ready but to take as long as we liked.
Food: it is worth reading the information on their website before going, it is highly informative and gives you an indication of just how seriously they take their meat. It's all British (hooray!) and they have given a lot of thought to the cuts, the cooking, and the accompaniments. There is a very useful article about matching wines to the different cuts and the recommendations are not necessarily what you would expect.
It is also worth reading the menu, especially the drinks menu, which has some hilarious and truly unusual and interesting finds.
A number of larger cuts are available and are indicated by weight on boards, crossed off once they have been ordered. Staff were helpful in giving advice and recommendations.
We ordered salad starters which were outstandingly good: broad bean, peas and ticklemore cheese, and a divine tomato salad with tomatoes which tasted home grown. Steaks were absolutely divine. Beautifully cooked and seasoned, exactly as requested, and utterly delicious. Chips were fabulous, as were the sides and sauces. Puddings were all interesting, the brownie with salted caramel ice cream was divine.
We absolutely loved it. We will tell all our friends. By the end of the evening we were mentally making a note of all the other people we could go there with…they got everything right. We were thinking “Let's GO for it!!! Again!!!”

Went last Friday with some clients. The food, as with all of my visits, was top-notch, producing one of the best steaks in London, and served with mac'n'cheese and triple cooked chips – wonderful! 300g fillet is c£30 and a 600g bone in Sirloin is £28 – so Gaucho esque prices. Sides are £3-4. They also offer a large line of mint julep cocktails which are awesome too. Service was okay (well, good looking!) though with every table full, it was sometimes a little hard to get any attention, such as when ordering the second bottle of red or extra chips! If you like steak and chips, go is the message.