Steak-cooking is a real art. Get a good one and you’re in succulent, smoky, mouth-watering meat heaven. Get a bad one and you might as well be chewing rubber. So, it’s worth knowing where on Earth chefs are serving up the finest slabs of ribeye, sirloin and flank.
To that end, World’s 101 Best Steak Restaurants is at your service. Each year, it sends meat masters to every continent on the globe to evaluate hundreds of steakhouses, incognito. To make it into the top 101 in the world, the meat at the steakhouses must be ‘quality in terms of taste, terroir, character, marbling, cut and preparation’, staff must be knowledgable and there has to be an exquisitely curated wine list that enhances the dining experience.
Seven London restaurants made the cut this year, but just two British steakhouses outside of the capital were included. Let’s dig in.
The highest ranking UK restaurant outside of London was a new addition to the list – Blok in the village of Pontyclun, South Wales. Sat within Lanelay Hall Hotel and Spa, it landed in 55th place. World Best Steak said that Blok ‘stands as a testament to the harmonious blend of traditional cooking methods and contemporary culinary artistry’.
Here, you can indulge in local Welsh dry aged sirloin, rib-eye or tomahawk on the bone cooked on an open fire and accompanied by ‘a variety of great sauces, such as Café de Paris butter, brown butter béarnaise and green mojo’.
Glasgow’s Porter and Rye landed in 85th place, down three spots on last year’s ranking. World Best Steaks praised this Scottish steakhouse for offering a ‘a warm and stylish setting for those in search of exceptional cuts and polished service’ and feeling ‘intimate without being formal’.
Of the restaurants meat, it said: ‘ Expertly aged on-site and flame-grilled to your liking, these cuts – from robust ribeye to the generous Porterhouse – deliver depth of flavour and tenderness that truly set them apart.’
And let’s not forget the importance of good side dishes. Here, you can indulge in some expert-approved truffle mash, beef dripping chips or glazed heritage carrots to accompany your ribeye. Delish.
See the full list of the world’s 101 best steak restaurants here.
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