Steak

• Gaucho City is reopening after a big revamp - take a first look inside

  

  Gaucho in the City has just had a complete overhaul. Take a first sneak peek inside the new-look steak restaurant. 

• Tokyo's Kobe beef specialists Aragawa are heading to London

  

  Updated 17/10/23 with opening date

  London's carnivores with big pockets have a new treat coming their way this summer. One of Tokyo's most prestigious restaurants is opening its first restaurant outside Japan, in Mayfair.

  They're taking over the old Miyama site on Clarges Street bringing their legendary - and pricey - steaks to the West End.

  Billed as one of the world's most expensive

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• Solis sees the TATA Eatery team bring a chicken and steak grill to Arcade Battersea

   

  Just coming off a recent residency at The Sea, The Sea, TATA Eatery's Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng are planning their next big thing, Solis, which is opening in the new Arcade food hall in Battersea. 

  Solis is being billed primarily as a chicken and steak grill, but one with a difference, taking specific influences from Spain,

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• Test Driving Goodman City - a steakhouse at the top of its game

  

  This New York inspired steakhouse is knocking it out of the park - we booked in to see how they've kept the City crowd happy for more than a decade.

• Black Bear Burger are starting steak nights in Brixton

  

  They're already going carving a name for themselves in the hugely competitive London burger scene but Black Bear Burger aren't sitting on their laurels. This week they're gearing up to launch a new weekly Thursday Steak Night at their Brixton restaurant.

  On the menu will be a rotating offer of different cuts - bavette will always be on - and they'll be using the grass-fed dry-aged British beef that

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• Test Driving Fazenda London - the rodizio grill comes to the City

   

  They're big up North and now the South American rodizio grill has arrived in London. We went to the City to see just how much meat we could eat... 

• Gaucho is opening a new steakhouse in Covent Garden

  

  12/5/23 - updated with the opening details

  It's been a while since we had a brand new Gaucho in London, the steakhouse from Martin Williams (who also runs M Restaurants) - over a decade, it turns out. But now they have a new restaurant coming to Covent Garden.

  It's landing in a familiar site too. It's where Wahlburgers spent a few months pre-pandemic and where the great ...

• M Restaurant is letting you dine inside a Himalayan salt dining pod in Canary Wharf

  

  We've seen dining pods pop up from time to time across London, most notably on the south bank of The Thames, but M Restaurants are doing something a little different with theirs. They're stacking a lot of Himalayan salt in them (around the diners, of course). 

  They've installed two of the pods outside the M Restaurant in Canary Wharf (overlooking the river),

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• Grill 88 serves up luxury surf and turf over at The Biltmore Mayfair

  

  It's been almost a year since chef Jason Atherton announced he was parting ways with The Biltmore Mayfair hotel on Grosvenor Square. Since then the hotel has been running the Cafe Biltmore that he opened there. But now they've got a brand new restaurant to shout about.

  Grill 88 is all about surf and turf - so that'll be Lake District Sirloin Steaks alongside Japanese Wagyu ribeyes, Australian full-blood

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• Canary Wharf is the next stop for Blacklock's chops

  

  24/5/23 - updated with the opening date

  They last opened in Covent Garden and now Blacklock have their sights set on Canary Wharf's North Dock.

  They're part of a big influx of restaurants into the area with recent openings including Hawksmoor, Dishoom and Zia Lucia. 

  If you're still not quite familiar with Blacklock, it all comes down to their main event -

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• Flat Iron sets its sights on Kensington for its next steakhouse

  

  15/3/22 - updated with the opening date

  Kensington residents on the lookout for a decent steakhouse now have the arrival of Flat Iron to look forward to this spring.

  Everyone's favourite budget steak restaurant is going to be opening up a 90-seat restaurant on Young Street, just off Kensington High Street. As per their usual operating model, it'll all be about their titular Flat Iron steak

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• KöD, a Danish steakhouse, opens in the City

  

  There has been much written about the cosy art of Danish ‘hygge’ but at the time of writing, London’s weather is still doing its best frosty Scandi impersonation, so a new Danish steakhouse called KöD in Devonshire Square is worth investigating.

  First opening in Denmark’s second-largest city Århus in 2014, Restaurant KöD hopes to bring some Danish vibes via way of juicy steaks to the City (‘köd’ means ‘meat’

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• Chef Akira Back picks Soho for his London AB Steak Korean BBQ steakhouse

  

  Chef Akira Back is really taking on London in 2023. Not only is he opening various restaurants and bars at the upcoming Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, but he's also got a side hustle in the form of AB Steak which he's working on in Soho.

  The chef has already opened one in Los Angeles, so we

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• STK's latest steakhouse is in Stratford

   

  Somewhat out of nowhere, a brand new STK steakhouse has arrived in London. It's the latest opening that's part of The Gantry Hotel in Stratford, which already has Hermano coffee bar, Union Social, Coupe Bar and a roof terrace on the way soon. 

  As for what to expect from STK Stratford - it's a similar vibe to their restaurants on the Strand and in Westminster - part steakhouse, part party venue

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• Flat Iron steaks come to White City's Westfield London

  The affordable steak empire of Flat Iron moves ever one - with its latest restaurant in Westfield having just opened. 

  If you've been to a Flat Iron, you know the drill by now. But if you haven't, it's all about their titular Flat Iron steak that's sold with salad for £12, making it one of the most affordable steak dinners in town. If you want to upgrade, there are more cuts available -

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