Before the ratings and quick call out to 10 years of The Steak Club. London has been on top form showing off her steaks and with the growing number of restaurants out there, we’ve not needed to visit the same restaurant twice. I’ll do a blog entry about these juicy 10 years soon. Anyway here is the mini – review before Gary’s overall full summary.
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Venue - 7 – It’s far from the run in the mill steak restaurant being uniquely positioned inside the Hippodrome Casino. This location brings with it an air of excitement, a flavour of showmanship and you know, it’s actually not a bad combination.
Menu - 6 – The steak options only cover the regular cuts with sizes from 200g to 500g Rib eye or 650g T-Bones.
Wine – 6 – Norton 2014 Malbec comes in as average plonk, but a fairly extensive winelist to suit up to very large wallet tastes.
Waitress - 8 – With all of the coaching, charm and polish as a good croupier, the waitresses and the odd waiter played their part well in the show.
Value - 8 – With 500g Ribeye for £28, this is most definitely a steak subsidised by the casino. Do I hear a “Hell ya” for value!
Steak – 8 (x 5 = 40) – Well well well. 3 of us ordered the Rib Eye as the waitress said that it was the Chefs favourite, and it soon became ours. Perfectly cooked, very tasty, very juicy, yum. The two who had the T-Bones weren’t as impressed, but my rating if for what I ate.
Total - 75
Go to Heliot for air of excitement and a flavour of showmanship … and that’s just the steak.
As a side note, here’s an extract from the Hippodrome website on where the Heliot Steam House got it’s name:
“Our restaurant is named after the flirtatious and alluring Claire Heliot, one of the early performers at The Hippodrome in the early 1900’s. She was famous worldwide for feeding raw meat to lions on stage. Showing no fear for any of her fourteen lions, the New York Times noted ‘She pats them on the back like ponies, hugs them like kittens and romps about with them’. They described it as ‘One of the most thrilling animal acts ever seen’.”
Nice one Gazza, high risk, high reward.
Venue - 7 – It’s far from the run in the mill steak restaurant being uniquely positioned inside the Hippodrome Casino. This location brings with it an air of excitement, a flavour of showmanship and you know, it’s actually not a bad combination.
Menu - 6 – The steak options only cover the regular cuts with sizes from 200g to 500g Rib eye or 650g T-Bones.
Wine – 6 – Norton 2014 Malbec comes in as average plonk, but a fairly extensive winelist to suit up to very large wallet tastes.
Waitress - 8 – With all of the coaching, charm and polish as a good croupier, the waitresses and the odd waiter played their part well in the show.
Value - 8 – With 500g Ribeye for £28, this is most definitely a steak subsidised by the casino. Do I hear a “Hell ya” for value!
Steak – 8 (x 5 = 40) – Well well well. 3 of us ordered the Rib Eye as the waitress said that it was the Chefs favourite, and it soon became ours. Perfectly cooked, very tasty, very juicy, yum. The two who had the T-Bones weren’t as impressed, but my rating if for what I ate.
Total - 75
Go to Heliot for air of excitement and a flavour of showmanship … and that’s just the steak.
As a side note, here’s an extract from the Hippodrome website on where the Heliot Steam House got it’s name:
“Our restaurant is named after the flirtatious and alluring Claire Heliot, one of the early performers at The Hippodrome in the early 1900’s. She was famous worldwide for feeding raw meat to lions on stage. Showing no fear for any of her fourteen lions, the New York Times noted ‘She pats them on the back like ponies, hugs them like kittens and romps about with them’. They described it as ‘One of the most thrilling animal acts ever seen’.”
Nice one Gazza, high risk, high reward.
