Hawksmoor restaurant review: ‘Great steak and killer cocktails in Dublin’s buzziest dining room – but €130 for a prime rib may be too costly for some’

Hawksmoor restaurant review: ‘Great steak and killer cocktails in Dublin’s buzziest dining room – but €130 for a prime rib may be too costly for some’

I first ate in the original Hawksmoor in Spitalfields back in the mid 2000s. Will Beckett and Huw Gott had taken over a former Turkish restaurant with a charcoal grill and named their first steakhouse after Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect of the landmark Christ Church nearby. Until then, steakhouses in London had shouty red signage and were only for out-of-towners, but Hawksmoor felt classy from the outset, having more in common with the low-lit t…