New on Wine List Confidential: Hawksmoor

Hawksmoor Seven Dials – Wine list Confidential Score: 90.2

Assembled by childhood friends and founders of Hawksmoor, Will Beckett (whose mother, Fiona, is a prodigious writer on food and wine matching) and Huw Gott, the extensive list trots across iconic Californians, Super Tuscans, a smattering of fine Bordeaux in the ‘Rarities’ section, and more than serviceable whites including decade-old artisan Muscadet.

Unpretentious, focused, yet wide-ranging – and, note, £5 corkage on Monday nights is a huge boon, although mark-ups are not particularly pulverising.

Of particular note is the specifically devised, steak-friendly, Hawksmoor Rosso from Braida, purchase of which sees a donation made to Action Against Hunger.

Try the starter of fillet steak tartare, and signature main of bone-in prime rib, or, merging the best of land and sea, Surf ‘n’ Turf, which combines a 300g fillet steak with half a grilled lobster with garlic butter. It would be sad not to add a side of creamed spinach with that.

If you make it through to pudding, try the Peanut Butter Shortbread with a pick from the considered Port and Sherry selection, such as Dixon’s, ‘Double Diamond’ 10 Year Old Tawny.

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