Father's Day at Hawksmoor | Steak & Sunday Roast

He'll say don't fuss. Fuss anyway.

Father's Day at Hawksmoor. Sunday 21st June.

A skillet with a sharing Longhorn steak on a wooden table, surrounded by side dishes and drinks

Father’s Day, done properly.

 

It’s a funny one, Father’s Day. They pretend they’re not bothered, don’t they. “No, no, don’t make a thing of it. Bit of peace and quiet will do me fine.” But you know better. And you know he’s near-impossible to buy for. He’s already got the socks, the gadget, the third pair of barbecue tongs.

What he hasn’t got is an afternoon with no clock on it, a proper steak in front of him, and the people he likes most around the table.

 

book his table view menus

The Offering

That part we know a thing or two about. Grass-fed beef, dry-aged for 35 days, cooked simply over screaming-hot coals with nothing but a scattering of Maldon salt. All the sauces (get the bone marrow gravy for the table). Triple-cooked chips we keep a whole training manual for. And a sticky toffee pudding worth saving room for, whatever he says about being full.

No set menu he didn’t ask for. No forced fanfare. Just food worth slowing down for, and a team who’ll look after him without ever hovering. Come as you are, order too much, take your time.

A genertous table spread of Longhorn steaks, sides and starters

“Hawksmoor continues to be a class act.”


Marina O'Loughlin, The Sunday Times

And it's a Sunday, so

Father’s Day falls on a Sunday, which means there’s another way to do it. Our Sunday roast has been twice voted the best in the country, and we treat that like a standard to live up to, not a line to put on a poster.

A whole rump of 35-day dry-aged beef, smoked over charcoal then finished slow in the oven, carved thick because thin slices have no place here. Beef-dripping roast potatoes that shatter at the edges. Yorkshire puddings the size of small hills. Roasted carrots, buttered greens, a whole soft clove of garlic for the ones who go all in. And bone marrow and onion gravy, poured without restraint.

Steak or roast, the kitchen takes both awfully seriously. He just has to decide how he wants to spend the afternoon.

A shot of a sirloin Sunday Roast with all the trimmings in the forefront, on a white place, with a plate piled high with Yorkshire puddings, a bottle of red wine and a joint of beef in the background

“Twice voted Best Sunday Lunch in the UK.”


The Observer

A drink to mark it

And if he fancies something in his hand to make a moment of it, there’s the Kentucky River: our summer take on an Old Fashioned, built with Maker’s Mark bourbon, peach, white cacao and a twist of lemon. A tenner, in our UK restaurants until the 21st.

Eagle-eyed types might have clocked our St Pancras Martini Bar as the backdrop to the new Maker’s Mark campaign, fronted by Lucien Laviscount. We can’t promise you’ll bump into him at the bar. We can promise the drink’s worth ordering. Look out for it on our blackboards.

A bottle of Maker's Mark next to a cocktail with a lemon twist garnish