Hawksmoor Covent Garden

Hawksmoor at 11 Langley Street in Covent Garden WC2 is one of the most celebrated branches of Will Beckett and Huw Gott's steak group, which Hardens consistently rates the best steakhouse in London and which has been called the best steakhouse in the world by some critics. The group opened its first branch in Spitalfields in 2006 and now has 13 locations. The Covent Garden site uses a converted 1930s brewery. Hardens 2025: "the standard has not slipped over nearly 20 years of trading — the beef is still outstanding." The menu focuses on dry-aged British beef: porterhouse, T-bone, bone-in sirloin and rib-eye, aged 28 to 55 days. The Sunday roasts are consistently cited as the best in central London — bone marrow gravy, dripping roasted potatoes, giant Yorkshire pudding. The cocktail bar at Hawksmoor is one of London's finest.

Available for dine-in at 11 Langley Street, Covent Garden WC2H. Phone 020 7856 2154. Own website: thehawksmoor.com. Book ahead.