341415 Thu Nov 09 21:54:49 -0800 2006 11 42 U.K./Ireland 0 2009756 Please provide your top 3. Thu Nov 09 21:54:49 -0800 2006 14634 netmover 1 2009989 I only have one, The Rib Room at the Carlton Tower hotel. I think it is the best steak in London. Thu Nov 09 23:07:37 -0800 2006 2009756 18535 Moz 1 2010857 We recently had this debate: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/327622?query=steak&user_name= Fri Nov 10 10:18:05 -0800 2006 2009756 19800 loobcom 1 2011195 Kew Grill gets my vote Fri Nov 10 15:25:57 -0800 2006 2009756 52275 Foodantic 1 3352257 I was in several steak houses. For me the best is Gaucho. Especcialy in Picadilly. By the way I found new resource for steak houses, it's still new, but suppose will be popular soon. http://www.steakhousefinder.com/steakhouses/uk/london/ Pauli Thu Jan 31 10:37:26 -0800 2008 2009756 162310 SteakyFan 2 3352405 no, no, no, no! if you like the gaucho grill, try el gaucho - either the one by south ken station or the one by chelsea westminster hospital. promise: you'll do much better there than at the gaucho grill. especially if a dish of french fries with chopped sausage and a fried egg on top as an accompaniment floats your boat. Thu Jan 31 11:03:48 -0800 2008 3352257 11086 howler 2 3360601 I went to the Gaucho on Piccadilly for the first time on a Saturday night a couple of months back. The food was quite average, the service was terrible, and I had the uncomfortable feeling of being "processed" - it just seemed too cynical and corporate. Your mileage, and the quality of your steak, may vary... Sun Feb 03 06:16:20 -0800 2008 3352257 163013 Clerkenwellian 1 3353357 Kew Grill would also get my vote. I'm also a great fan of the Gaucho Grill in Manchester and assume that the various southern branches offer the same high quality meat and skill in cooking it. Thu Jan 31 14:43:02 -0800 2008 2009756 154102 Harters 1 3356599 I've heard great things about Santa Maria del Buen Ayr in Broadway Market in Hackney. There's another branch in Battersea, on Queenstown Road (Santa Maria del Sur). I thought Gaucho Grill was mediocre, and very expensive. Mind you, steak is something I generally eat at home, not in restaurants. Fri Feb 01 13:09:21 -0800 2008 2009756 110146 greedygirl 2 3381626 Netmover, imho no one should go to London to eat steak - any more than they'd travel to New York to enjoy spotted dick ! What the English do best, and what complements their beef, is roasts. If you want to enjoy beef, go to a top-level carvery and see your beef cut to order as it sits on a wonderful silver chariot. Simpsons in the Strand comes to mind - I am sure other hounds will make further recommendations. It won't be cheap - but it will be less costly than a steak, and infinitely better. If you MUST eat steak at exorbitant tariffs, then by all means go to the estimable Rib Room - Moz's advice is spot on. Sat Feb 09 19:34:55 -0800 2008 3356599 20323 Bigtigger 3 3382112 Hawksmoor in Shoreditch has the best reputation, but I haven't been myself. Tend to agree that you can just go to the same butcher as they do (Ginger Pig) and cook it yourself so why spend even more money. That said I go to Gaucho Grill on Chancery Lane often as is convenient and tend to be impressed, but prices can get silly with decent wine. Sun Feb 10 05:01:16 -0800 2008 3381626 164166 Iestyn Morgan 4 3385512 I was disappointed with Hawksmoor the one time I went last November. To my own surprise, I was very impressed with Gaucho Grill Hampstead last summer, reminded me of steaks I have eaten in Argentina but we made sure to order from the menu of Argentinian steaks. And they also do a very tasty rendition of humita, the Andean corn-based dish, as a side. We ordered a superb Malbec from the reserve list and you're right to point out that prices can get silly with decent wine involved. Mon Feb 11 09:17:46 -0800 2008 3382112 28263 oonth