Hawksmoor – a ‘British steakhouse’ opened by a couple of entrepreneurs who focussed on quality and sourcing – opened in 2006 (they now have eight restaurants in the UK).
The number of meat-worshipping chefs - with a genuine desire to cook meat well – exploded and I started taking two buses on a Saturday to buy the kind of steaks I’d grown up eating.
There are variables when it comes to cooking steak but also some rules. Get the best you can afford and understand the cut you’re buying.
Take the meat out of the fridge 30 minutes before you want to cook it and dry it with kitchen paper. Wet meat doesn’t brown well so you end up with a ‘boiled’ beef flavour.
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