{"id":15566,"date":"2011-03-12T22:56:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T22:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=15566"},"modified":"2021-11-01T22:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:47:43","slug":"hawksmoor-best-of-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=15566","title":{"rendered":"Hawksmoor &#8211; Best of British"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><em>The first rule of Hawksmoor is make sure you are really hungry!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The second rule of Hawksmoor is make sure you are really, really hungry!!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The third rule of Hawksmoor is make sure you are really, really, really hungry!!!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We foolishly made the mistake of having breakfast a few hours before going for Sunday lunch at <a title=\"Hawksmore Seven Dials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehawksmoor.com\/sd.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hawksmoor<\/a> in Seven Dials. Lets just say that the portion sizes were more than generous.\u00a0 We ordered a glass of Chianti Classico and Pinor Noir.\u00a0 Opted to skip starters and rather than have a steak,\u00a0 decided to go for the &#8216;lighter&#8217; option of the\u00a0 Sunday Roast at \u00a317.50. \u00a0 When it arrived the Roast Beef was almost off the side of the plate and about 3\/4 of an inch thick, served with a large yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, parsnips, artichoke and a full bulb of roasted garlic.\u00a0 Accompanied by a gravy boat and some horseradish.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15566 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040284.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040284-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040283.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040283-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040282.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040282-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040276.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040276-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040275.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040275-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040279.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040279-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040277.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040277-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040280.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040281.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040281-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The beef was tasty, moist and beautifully cooked, the vegetables were\u00a0very good too, including what tasted like triple cooked roast potatoes. I can&#8217;t say that we cleared our plates, we didn&#8217;t, but that was not because we did not enjoy it, just that we physically couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Although strangely we did manage to have dessert (different compartment I guess). For dessert I had the peanut butter shortbread with salted Caramel ice cream.\u00a0 My light weight companion just went for the cornflake ice cream accompanied by a generous glass of <a title=\"Tokaji\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokaji\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokaji<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They have also recently added some mini macarons<strong id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1301350888790479\"><strong id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1301350888790478\"><\/strong><\/strong> to the menu. A nice accompanyment to coffee, we had no space, but our neighbours said they were really good and well worth keeping on the menu.\u00a0 Guess I will just have to go back and try them \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p>Food 6<\/p>\n<p>Service 6.5<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 6<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first rule of Hawksmoor is make sure you are really hungry! The second rule of Hawksmoor is make sure you are really, really hungry!! The third rule of Hawksmoor is make sure you are really, really, really hungry!!! We foolishly made the mistake of having breakfast a few hours before going for Sunday lunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=15566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hawksmoor &#8211; Best of British&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[439],"class_list":["post-15566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-uk","tag-hawksmoor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15566"}],"version-history":[{"count":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30085,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions\/30085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}