Valentine's Day At Hawksmoor

Pretttyyyyy

I like trying out new restaurants and I eat out quite a bit, so thought to blog about the places I go. Yes, I'm running out of things to talk about. I'm not much of a reviewer so I'll just stick some pictures in. If you like the look of it you can give the place a visit.

I got taken out to Hawksmoor for Valentine's Day and I really had high hopes for it. And to be honest, it was pretty average. My friend tells me my expectations for restaurants are really high and nothing is good enough, so my average actually means it's great. I don't know, you can go and see for yourself.

If you do go, I recommend getting their 'favourite cuts'. Proof is in the name really, but they only had 600 grams and up left and that's a bit too much for me. I wanted to try the Porterhouse steak but they'd run out so I got the Sirloin. I think that's where I went wrong?

I like my steak medium. No blood, please.

My date got the grass fed chicken and it was basically a flat chicken breast with crispy skin thrown over it. It looked crap. I didn't even ask to try some. He originally wanted to get the beef short-ribs but they'd run out of that too.



Sorry I don't mean to be a negative Nancy but who the fuck enjoys bone marrow?! Imagine gooey, oily, melt in your mouth fat. When my dad makes me lamb shank, I suck the bone marrow out of that and it's delicious so I thought it would be the same. It wasn't. Not even close.

The triple cooked chips were okay. Not as good as Flat Iron's cooked chips though.

Okay fine they were good. I need to stop comparing.

The macaroni cheese was nice though. Hurrah. I didn't even order that but I stole some off him. The waitress said there's blue cheese in it so I thought I wouldn't like it, but it wasn't overpowering at all. Just a slight hint.



The best part of the meal were the cocktails and the free salted caramel chocolates the waitress gave us at the end. The bartender by the way, was a cocktail God. He asked me what alcohol I liked and he made me something that wasn't on the menu. If you go there and you like Tequila, order a Grapefruit Picador. Even if you don't like grapefruit (cause I don't). Trust me on this. It was beautiful.

I'd say Hawksmoor has nothing on Gaucho. You can't beat Argentinian steak, in my opinion. The menu is much bigger, the restaurants are lush (I went to the one in Tower Bridge and the view was really nice) and the prices are around the same. Although Gaucho does have pricier options.

Maybe one day I'll go back to Hawksmoor and try one of their favourite cuts, but for now it's getting a 6 out of 10 from me.

And I know, I need to get better at taking pictures. I'm trying man. Gosh.