Best Steak Restaurants In Soho

Tucked away beneath Broadwick Street you'll find one of the best steak restaurants in Soho, London. At temper, the meat is bought directly from English farms, aged and butchered in-house and then cooked over fire - in fact, the entire eatery is centred around a giant fire pit with counter dining so that guests can watch chefs in action. There's also sleek, leather booth seating for more intimate moments, should you wish to devour your loaded cheeseburger tacos with some level of privacy. The space has a dark, luxurious feel to it, and invites you to feast on slow-grown and pasture-raised rare-breed British cattle served with beef-fate bearnaise, chipotle sour cream, Korean barbecue sauce or bourbon pepper sauce to name a few. 

A cult classic if we ever did see one, Steak & Lobster knows what's cooking when it comes to good beef. Perched on in a former Aston Martin showroom on Warren Street and with a second haunt near Marble Arch, its Central London outposts provide a warm welcome to those on the hunt for a spot of surf and turf. Celebrating land and sea with freshly caught lobster and steak from Country Antrim in Northern Ireland, it focuses on provenance and quality. The dining room, lit up by big skylights, provides a bright, modern space to tuck into some of this restaurant's iconic plates, such as a steak brioche roll, filled with Philly cheese (£20), a 235g rib-eye (£26) and a 454g T-bone (£35), served with green peppercorn, blue cheese, chimichurri or jalapeño sauce. 

Slap bang in the middle of Piccadilly Circus you'll find Steak and Company, a popular restaurant that specialises in the delicious food. It sports traditional decor in the form of large windows (perfect for people-watching), low-hanging, industrial-style lights, exposed brick walls and wooden flooring. Quality is key here, as it uses a farm-to-fork approach to sourcing and cooking ingredients, serving up Purebred Black Aberdeen Angus from the Southern American countryside. Speciality steaks include Surrey Farm côte de boeuf (£40) and Aberdeen Angus T-bone (£49), while the hot stone experience gets everyone involved, allowing you to cook your cut to personal perfection, serving it with a selection of sauces (green peppercorn, mushroom or bone marrow and red wine jus to name a few).  

JW Steakhouse can be found within Grosvenor House offering hand-selected USDA and Creekstone cuts as part of its American approach to the Mayfair dining scene. Stylishly decorated with dark furnishings, checkboard flooring and a large garden terrace, it's also home to a tempting Bourbon bar. The Sunday roasts are not to be missed, but of course, the a la carte is where it's at with its steaks delicately seared to your liking on a 650c broiler. Choose from USDA prime beef or butcher's British cuts, add on half a lobster or grilled jumbo shrimp to make it surf and turf, and choose from a selection of sauces, including port and stilton.

At Hawksmoor Air Street, things are a little different as it teamed up with Mitch Tonks, owner of the Seahorse in Dartmouth, to provide some of the finest catches straight from Brixham Market in Devon. But, fear not, as it still executes its incredible steaks to perfection and is a large reason why its Art Deco room overlooking Regent Street is buzzing on a regular basis. Since being founded by childhood friends Will Becket and Huw Gott in 2005 and first opening its doors in 2006, the eatery has continued to source grass-fed beef from independent British farmers and age it in a bespoke dry-ageing room. Look forward to large cuts of chateaubriand (£15 per 100g), T-bone (£11.50) and juicy fillets (£45 for 300g) paired with bearnaise, peppercorn, bone marrow gravy or anchovy hollandaise. 

For the most affordable and best steak in Soho, London, head to Flat Iron, located just around the corner from Carnaby Street and spread across three floors. This shabby chic haunt features bare brick, rickety walls, low lighting and a steel bar circling an open kitchen with only a few tables and stools. It also happens to be the first restaurant under the brand name following a successful pop-op in 2012 above The Owl and Pussycat in Shoreditch. You can secure its signature steak here for just £14, then treat yourself to indulgent add-ons like homemade beef dripping chips (£4), crispy bone marrow garlic mash (£4) and truffled macaroni cheese (£5.50).

Founded by childhood friends Rupert Power and Sophie Bathgate in 2002, Sophie's Soho is a modern steakhouse and cocktail bar with a focus on West Country British beef that's dry-aged and butchered in-house. It provides a fun dining atmosphere with a chandelier-lit bar and a custom-built firepit where classics are cooked over charcoal, and English birch and oak wood in the open kitchen. There's also a gorgeous terrace where you can take some famous martinis before tucking into signature slow roasts of prime rib or axe handle ribeye (£95 for 36oz) for dinner. The dry-aged steak burger (£19) is not to be missed either, topped with dill pickle and sweet onion lettuce.

Bringing a slice of Argentina to the UK in the form of premium Black Angus cattle bred at selected farms, Gaucho can be found on Piccadilly (its flagship eatery since opening in 1996) and Charlotte Street in Central London. The first restaurant of its kind opened in the city in 1994 and it has since expanded with outposts across the country. Set in a gorgeous townhouse that used to be the former residence of the Spanish Ambassador, it conjures up an elegant atmosphere thanks to its dark shutters, royal blue velvet chairs and golden light arrangements. Feast on elevated Latin cuisine here, such as churrasco de chorizo, marinated in garlic, parsley and olive oil, or opt for the beef bar sampler, which includes lomo marinated in spicy chimichurri, ancho in tomatillo and chorizo with juniper. Fancy something a little more refreshing? The fillet steak salad is not to be missed, nor is the steak tartare. 

The best steak Soho has to offer can be found at Blacklock, the award-winning restaurant and chop house founded in 2013 by Gordon Ker, of Hawksmoor fame. It's housed in a former brothel and the well-known 'La Reims' lap dancing club on Great Windmill Street, which also happened to be where salt beef institution Nosh Bar previously laid down its roots. Today it features slinky leather booths and dark, wooden-panelled walls that make up a buzzing dining room. The meat is sourced from Phillip Warren & Son, Cornwall's oldest third-generation farmers and butchers, and is used to create moreish dishes like the 'steak sarnie' and the haunt's signature burger. You can munch on up to 55-day dry-aged Denver (£5) or rump cap (£18), as well as porterhouse (£10 per 100g), alongside beef dripping chips (£4.80).