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The next youngandfoodish Steak Frites Tasting Dinner will be Tuesday 25 May in the private dining room of Racine Restaurant in London.
The menu will again feature three steak classics – onglet aux échalottes, filet au poivre, côte de boeuf – prepared by chef Henry Harris with the finest cuts of dry-aged, grass-fed beef selected by Darragh O’Shea of the great London butcher O’Shea’s of Knightsbridge. Each steak will be matched to a red wine selected by Peter Lowe of Berkmann Wine Cellars:
The voters have spoken: There is no love for steak frites so rare as the one seared in memory by @the_rts. And just why does the winner of the youngandfoodish why-do-you-love-steak-frites competition love steak frites?
For his heart-fluttering tweet, @the_rts has won the ultimate steak-frites supper. [Read more...]
5 finalists have been chosen for the why do you love steak frites? competition. The winner and a guest will be invited by chef Henry Harris to the 22nd March premiere of the youngandfoodish steak frites tasting dinners at Racine in London. If the winner cannot attend on that date he or she may come to the next tasting of steak classics – onglet aux échalottes, filet au poivre, côte de boeuf – on the 12th of April.
Voting is open now until Thursday the 18th at 11pm GMT to anyone with a twitter user name . Only 1 vote is allowed per user. You can vote in one of two ways:
Chef Henry Harris of London’s Racine babies a côte de boeuf thick enough to stand up on its side in the pan. He bastes the double rib chop from O’Shea’s of Knightsbridge with butter as the aged beef’s marbling self-bastes its interior with fat.
In part 4 of Steak Frites – Mastering the Cuts, Darragh O’Shea, he of the great London butcher shop O’Shea’s of Knightsbridge, pulls out his finest grass-fed, dry-aged beef and explains how to recognise top quality by colour and cut. His personal favourite amongst the three cuts he presents to Racine chef Henry Harris for the #steakfrites tasting dinners is not the prized côte de boeuf nor the pristine filet but rather the underrated, working-class onglet. He’s proud to call that flavour-packed thick skirt the Steak O’Shea.
In part 4 of Steak Frites – Mastering the Cuts, an empathetic Henry Harris of Racine feels the pain of any cook, home or professional, who’s experienced béarnaise anxiety syndrome. He explains how to save a split béarnaise. Unfortunately, his advice will of no help to any unlucky diner who is served a curdled, runny or broken sauce at a restaurant.
In part 3 of Steak Frites – Mastering the Cuts, Henry Harris of Racine Restaurant stresses that the rich, almost syrupy sauce in which his pepper-crusted showcase steak sits should not be likened to brandied butter or a flavoured stock. Rather, a proper filet au poivre, its peppery kick notwithstanding, is about bringing everything together in the right balance.
Enter the why do you love #steakfrites? twitter contest to win the filet au poivre pictured above, along with Racine’s onglet aux échalottes and côte de boeuf and of course frites.
In the second part of steak frites – mastering the cuts, Henry Harris reveals the shalls and shall nots of onglet aux échalottes. Onglet, a butcher’s cut, may also be called skirt, hanger or, if it’s the prized onglet from O’Shea’s of Knightsbridge seen in this video, “Steak O’Shea”.
If the video has made you salivate, as its producers intended, then it’s the perfect time to enter our “why do you love steak frites?” competition. The winner and his or her guest will be invited to the 22 March debut of the youngandfoodish steak frites tasting dinners at Racine Restaurant.
