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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Hawksmoor Steak Houses, London and UK - the secrets of cooking steak


Hawksmoor steak house restaurants are in several places in London and elsewhere in the UK. The are the gourmet steak houses. If you want a partiuclar cut of steak, or cooked exactly to your liking, this is where to get it. My husband has been to two of their restaurants in London. on the second occasion we went together for a foursome at the Hawksmoor by Borough Market.

I am now a convert, an addict.

Food

Hawksmoor Steak House restaurant, Borough Market, London. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

DRINK

1 Coats and Toilets and Table


Down an elegant and easy broad flight of stairs with banisters to the toilets.

Downstairs toilet. Chequerboard pattern floor tiles. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The service is impeecable. You can have your coat hung up. If you delay whilst removing essentials from the pockets, you can sit down, as I did. and hand your coat to a waiter to take the coat to the cloackroom and bring back the identifying ticket.

The toilets are downstairs. Not steep stairs. If you are okay with stairs go downstairs where you will fidn more cuibles and space. However, if stairs are a problem or you are i a hurry beause your guest could arrive at any moment, there's a large wheelchair friendly toilet on the ground floor. The light did not come on. A waiter went in and waved his arms overhead and that turned on the light.

Service Charge

You pay about 15% on the bill for service. The bill payers did not mind. We went on a Monday which is bring your own wine day. Each couple brought red or white wine, and the corkage was five pounds for a bottle. 

Bring A Bottle Mondays And Corkage

Corkage, I used to gasp. Now I am more blase and shrug. They give you two sets of glasses, ask about when to serve the wine, bring you an ice bucket, offer ice, refill your glasses, save the cork or stopper on request if you are taking home half a bottle of leftover wine. And happily chat to you about their food or your wines, without rushing off to serve others.


Serving your wines on bring your own bottle Mondays.

Steak.



Ribs. Perfectly done.

Salad.

Our last and long-lasting expense but treasured memory was their huge book.costing  thirty pounds. It reveals how you, or rather they, achieve perfect steaks, including resting steaks after cooking in a low heat oven.

The big Hawksmoor book sold at the restaurant's reception desk. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Useful Websites\

https://thehawksmoor.com/

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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

New and old restaurants in Hatch End, Pinner

Hatch End is a sub-division of Pinner. Hatch End's high street, the Uxbridge Road, is a just along from Pinner. Pinner had the historic black and white buildings including a couple of ancient pubs, connections with Heath Robinson, whose museum is in the Park opposite Pinner Metropolitan line station.

Hatch End station is on the Watford to Euston line. The high street has art deco buildings and its association go back to Mrs Beeton whose famous cookery book taught us all to write recipes starting with the ingredients and then listing the actions to take.

Hatch End is a hotbed of restaurants, especially Italian restaurants, started by 'Mr Fellini'.


Bandaa is urdu for servant or beloved.

Restaurants in Hatch End (alphabetically)
B & K - Jewish style

Casa Mia
On the right below.














Chingon Cocina Mexicana (Mexican Restaurant) second from left.





Dona Theresa on the left.


Coriander - Indian

Lattakia Lebanese Restaurant




Izgara Restaurant



Laboratorio (Italian) Restaurant, Hatch End




Sakonis (Vegetarian Indian) Restaurant

Sakonis, far left.


Sea Pebbles (Take away and restaurant) - fish and chips and more,


Minori restaurant and pizzeria




The Steak Restaurant (far right of photo below)


Closed Down:
Fellini; Serato;

From Hatch End station you can follow a walking route.

Useful Websites For Travellers
Hatch End Restaurants
https://www.instagram.com/chingonlondon/
https://laboratoriopasta.co.uk/menu

Hatch End
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_End
Lots of photos are in:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hatch_End
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Anselm%27s_Church,_Hatch_End

Overground and Underground Railway
https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/route/bakerloo/
https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/route/metropolitan/
https://www.gwr.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)
TRAVEL
https://www.visitlondon.com/london-app
singaporeair.com

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