Hawksmoor Spitalfields

01What to order

• Longhorn Feast: Longhorn rib-eye, 400 g / 14 oz£56 on the October 2026 menu, with roasted bone marrow and slow-cooked onions. Once the Longhorn is gone, it is gone, the house says.
• Bone-in prime rib, by weight£14 per 100 g / 3.5 oz; Longhorn prime rib is £16 per 100 g / 3.5 oz. Large cuts usually start at 500 g / 18 oz.
• Chateaubriand, by weight£16.50 per 100 g / 3.5 oz, or £80 for a 500 g / 18 oz chateaubriand for two.
• Porterhouse or T-bone, by weight£14 and £13 per 100 g / 3.5 oz; in Longhorn, £16 and £15. The porterhouse carries fillet and sirloin on one bone.
• Rump, 275 g / 9.5 oz£29, the lowest-priced steak on the menu. A sirloin of 350 g / 12 oz is £44.
• Bone marrow and beef dripping chipsRoasted bone marrow is a £12 starter; the chips, cooked in beef dripping, are £7. Sauces are £4.

02The beef

Grass-fed British cattle, reared the traditional way on small farms; Hawksmoor Dublin is the exception, with Irish beef. The breed with a name on the menu is the Longhorn, a native breed: in 2022 The Nudge reported that it came from the butcher The Ginger Pig, chosen after the founders tested breeds from around the world. Other rare and native breeds arrive through the Rare Breeds Survival Trust program and are served at weekends. The Steak Flight, for four or five, lines up four animals: rump from Hawksmoor Farms, sirloin from Wildfell Wagyu, Longhorn rib-eye and Aberdeen Angus fillet. The menu names no grade. The number: 35 days.

03The fire

Charcoal. The house sums up its cooking as dry-aged steak cooked over charcoal, and the menu says the large cuts are grilled over live-fire charcoal. Scallops and monkfish go over the same coals.

04The story

Will Beckett and Huw Gott, childhood friends, opened the first Hawksmoor here in 2006 and still lead the company. The Nudge tells the start: a lease on an old kebab shop signed close to bankruptcy, no hot-food license yet, a loan refused by the banks, Gott's parents remortgaging their house and café, furniture bought on eBay. The Sunday roast has been served since 2008. Seven Dials followed in 2010, and in 2013 Graphite Capital bought a majority stake at a £35 million valuation. The Spitalfields bar won Best International Restaurant Bar at the 2016 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards, and the group became a certified B Corp in 2022.

05The practical

157a Commercial Street, London E1 6BJ, near Liverpool Street and Shoreditch High Street. Phone 020 7426 4850; bookings online. Open Monday and Tuesday 17:00–23:00, Wednesday and Thursday 12:00–23:00, Friday and Saturday 12:00–midnight, Sunday 11:30–22:00; the kitchen closes earlier. Set lunch is £21, £26 or £30 for one to three courses, and the early-evening menu £26 or £30. Sunday roast, 12:00–17:00, is rump cap with Yorkshire pudding and bone-marrow gravy. On Mondays, any bottle can be brought for £5 corkage. The Vesta Tilley Room seats up to 55; the basement bar takes 30 to 70 and is not wheelchair accessible.

Address

157a Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London E1 6BJ

Phone

+44 20 7426 4850

Website

thehawksmoor.com

Directions

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