The 15 Best Steak Restaurants in London (2026)

The classic steakhouses. Hawksmoor is where I'd send anyone who wants one great London steak, and Air Street, up in an Art Deco room above Regent Street, is the central branch I'd pick. The beef is from native-breed, grass-fed cattle from family farms, grilled over charcoal. A 275g (10oz) rump is £29, a 350g (12oz) sirloin £44, a 350g rib-eye £45 and a 275g fillet £46. For two or more, the blackboard sharing cuts (500g and up) run £13 to £16.50 per 100g. Chips are £7 and sauces £4 each, so dinner adds up. The better deal is lunch: Monday to Saturday from 12pm to 3pm, a 35-day dry-aged rump with a side is £21. On Mondays it's £5 corkage on any bottle you bring. The drawback is access: Air Street is upstairs, and while the lift is out of order Hawksmoor sends step-free guests to Seven Dials. Piccadilly Circus is three minutes away.

Goodman is the steakhouse I'd book for dinner in the City, three minutes from Bank station. Every Goodman has its own dry-ageing room, and the menu is a tour of beef styles: a 250g Irish grass-fed fillet for £38, a 350g Australian grain-fed sirloin for £43, a 350g USDA Prime sirloin for £58, and a 400g Goodman rib-eye for £65. The daily board has dry-aged British bone-in cuts at £13.50 to £16.50 per 100g, and Japanese A5 Wagyu sirloin is £95 for 200g. Sauces are only £2.50. The value is at weekday lunch, when a 250g striploin with chips and peppercorn sauce is £30. The catch is the timetable: there's no Saturday lunch and it's closed on Sundays, when the City empties out. Goodman also has a branch in Mayfair.

Gaucho is an Argentine-style steakhouse chain, and Swallow Street, five minutes from Piccadilly Circus, is its flagship over three floors with a terrace. Every cut comes in several weights, which makes it easy to eat well without overspending: rump is £20 for 200g, £28 for 300g; sirloin £37 for 300g; rib-eye £39.75 for 300g; fillet £39.50 for 200g. The marinated churrasco cuts, spiral-cut and grilled, are the house style, and the 1.2kg Gaucho Platter of four cuts is £130 for a group. The set lunch and pre-theatre menus are the cheapest way into a big West End steakhouse: £18.95 for two courses including a 160g rump and chips with chimichurri. The Sunday roast (rump of beef or chicken, unlimited Yorkshire puddings) is £26.95 from 12pm to 5pm. One drawback: the menu doesn't say where the beef is from, and the service charge is 12.5% on some menus and 13% on others.

Smith & Wollensky is the New York steakhouse's London branch, in the Adelphi Building between the Strand and the river, and it's the place for USDA Prime beef dry-aged for 28 days in-house. A 400g USDA Prime sirloin is £69, the 600g bone-in rib-eye £98, and there are Irish cuts for less: a 340g dry-aged sirloin is £45 and a 340g rib-eye £54. The cheapest steak is a 250g New Zealand sirloin at £32. American visitors will recognise the room and the menu, so I'd come here if you want Prime beef done the American way. It costs more than it looks: a 15% service charge (higher than the usual 12.5%) goes on every bill, and fries (£7) and sauces (£5) are extra. The set menu (two courses £28) only includes steak at a £10 supplement, and runs until 5:30pm Tuesday to Saturday, all day on Sundays and Mondays. It's opposite the Adelphi Theatre, so book for pre-theatre. Embankment and Charing Cross are four and five minutes away.

Boisdale of Belgravia has been going since 1989 and is the steakhouse for Scottish beef, whisky and live music. The steaks are Scottish, grass-fed and dry-aged (21 days for fillets, 35 for the rest): an 8oz fillet is £45, a 12oz rib-eye £52, a 16oz T-bone £64, and the 28oz côte de boeuf for two is £135. The 5oz minute fillet at £25, cooked medium only, is the cheapest way in. There's live music Monday to Saturday nights and a Sunday jazz lunch, and a cigar terrace. It's a clubby, old-fashioned room, which is the point. Two things to know: the 14.5% service charge is steep, and the building has stairs throughout and no lift, so it's not accessible to wheelchair users. The set lunch has no steak on it. Victoria station is six minutes' walk.

Argentine and Italian grills. Buen Ayre is a small Argentine parrilla on Broadway Market in Hackney, and it's the best-value serious steak in London. All the steaks are Argentine, grass-fed beef, grilled: vacío (flank) is £20 for 300g, rump £22 for 280g, rib-eye £25 for 280g or £37.50 for 397g, and fillet £39.50 for 284g. For two, the Parrillada Deluxe (from £41 a head with sirloin) brings your steak, a pork sausage each and a melted provolone to share on a table grill. The trade-off is getting there and getting in: it only opens for dinner on weekdays, and bookings go by WhatsApp or phone, not online, with a £10 deposit for groups of four or more. London Fields station on the Overground is nine minutes' walk. Make a day of it with Broadway Market's Saturday stalls; see the best food markets in London.

Santa Maria del Sur is an Argentine steakhouse on Queenstown Road in Battersea, with beef flown in from Argentina and cooked on a charcoal grill. Steaks are priced by weight with a 200g minimum: rump at £9 per 100g, sirloin £12.50, rib-eye £13.50 and fillet £17.60, so a 200g rump is £18 and a 300g fillet £52.80. The 500g Rib-eye Twister for two is £67. The deals make it worth the trip south of the river: a 140g rump with chips is £12 every lunchtime, and on Sundays there's no corkage if you bring your own wine. It's out of the centre: Queenstown Road station (trains from Waterloo) is ten minutes' walk, and Battersea Power Station on the Northern line is 20. Combine it with Battersea Park or the Power Station.

Macellaio RC is an Italian steak restaurant (macellaio means butcher), and the South Kensington branch is five minutes from the station and the museums. The beef is the Italian Marango breed and dry-aged Shorthorn from the Lake District. A 250g striploin is £32 and a 250g fillet £39; for two, the 600g Costata (bone-in rib-eye) is £59 and the 700g Fiorentina (T-bone) £74. It's also the one I'd point to for halal steak: its halal beef, from the Marango breed, is on a separate halal menu. That menu has different weights and prices from the main one, so ask for it when you book. Chips are £8, which is steep. It's the natural dinner after the V&A or the Natural History Museum.

Cheaper steak. Flat Iron is the answer to a cheap steak in central London. Beak Street in Soho was its first permanent restaurant, and the flat iron steak (a shoulder cut, tender and full of flavour) is £15. The 35-day aged rib-eye is £20 and the Wagyu steak of the day £24. Beef dripping chips are £4.50 and sauces £1.50, so steak, chips and béarnaise comes to £21. The beef comes from small UK and Irish farms, including Flat Iron's own herd in Yorkshire. It takes bookings but keeps plenty of room for walk-ins, and tables are timed at 90 minutes. The weights aren't printed, and the Soho building has three floors and limited access. Flat Iron has more branches; Covent Garden, the largest with its own butchery, is closed for a refit until 9 October 2026. Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus are six and seven minutes away.

Le Relais de Venise L'Entrecôte serves one thing: sirloin steak frites with its house sauce and a walnut salad, for £33, served in two helpings. You only choose how it's cooked. There's no booking link on its website, so ring ahead (020 7486 0878) or expect a queue at dinner; arriving just before service helps. It's quick, the tables are close together, and the £33 minimum per person means you can't just come for a drink. A 10.5% optional gratuity is added. It's a Paris import, and I'd choose it when you want a good steak without studying a menu. Bond Street station is eight minutes' walk.

Blacklock made its name with chops, and the City branch, in a basement off Eastcheap, has the widest menu of the Blacklocks. Steaks are British grass-fed beef from Philip Warren in Cornwall, aged up to 55 days, and priced low: Denver £16, bavette £18, sirloin £22, rib-eye £28 (weights aren't printed). The big sharing cuts, porterhouse and prime rib, are £11 per 100g, and on Mondays they drop to £8 per 100g all day. Its All In (a pile of beef, pork and lamb chops on flatbread with a side each) is £28 a head for two or more. Corkage is £10 a bottle every day. The drawback is the basement: there's no lift. Monument station is three minutes away. Blacklock's Soho branch is on my Sunday roast list.

Mr. Steak is an independent, Argentine-style steakhouse in Hammersmith, and every steak comes in four weights, which makes it one of the cheapest good steaks in London: a 180g rump is £14.95, sirloin £19.95, rib-eye £24.95 and fillet £27.95, each with fries, salad or mash included. The £39 set menu includes a 200g rib-eye or 250g sirloin with a starter and dessert. The room has underwater-themed projections on the walls, and the menu has gold-leaf steaks and a £220 golden tomahawk, which I'd skip. It's dinner only on weekdays and closed on Sundays. It's a trek from the centre but seven minutes from Hammersmith station on the District and Piccadilly lines, useful if you're staying in west London.

The splurges. Lurra is a Basque restaurant in Marylebone known for one steak: a rib-eye from Galician Blond cows raised to 12 to 16 years old, aged at least 45 days on the bone and grilled over charcoal. It's £145 per kilo. Lurra describes it as plenty for two, so it's a sharing order rather than a solo steak, and the price depends on the weight, so ask before it goes on the grill. Fries with smoked paprika and alioli are £9. I'd come here for that steak specifically; the rest of the menu is Basque grill cooking, from turbot to croquetas. It's closed at lunch on Mondays and only does lunch on Sundays. Marble Arch is five minutes away.

CUT is Wolfgang Puck's only London restaurant, inside the 45 Park Lane hotel facing Hyde Park, and it's where I'd go for Wagyu. The cheapest steak is a 12oz dry-aged British rib-eye at £72; USDA Prime rib-eye is £96 for 14oz, Australian Wagyu rib-eye £125 for 10oz, and Japanese A5 Wagyu from Kagoshima £160 for a 6oz sirloin or £174 for a 6oz filet mignon. The 35oz Australian Wagyu tomahawk is £340 to share. Fries are £12 and a 15% service charge is not included, so with Wagyu, dinner for two passes £300 quickly. The way in for less is the £45 Steak & Salad lunch, with a 10oz dry-aged rib-eye. Hyde Park Corner station is seven minutes away. For more of London's top-end rooms, see the best fine dining in London.

Nusr-Et is Salt Bae's London steakhouse, in the Park Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, and you come for the show as much as the beef. The menu is mostly Wagyu. The simplest price to understand is A5 Japanese Wagyu at 99p a gram, 100g minimum. The signature cuts are listed with wide price ranges by size and no weights, such as the Istanbul steak (Wagyu striploin) at £130 to £320 and the tomahawk at £300 to £380, so ask the weight and price before you order. That makes it hard to recommend for dinner. Lunch is the way to try it: the £39 lunch special includes a striploin or fillet, and the £59 Nusret Experience menu a 200g Wagyu fillet or striploin, both daily from 12pm to 5pm. Knightsbridge station is three minutes away and Harrods a short walk.