The restaurant at Fergus Henderson's new St John Hotel stands as a gently lit oasis of white and stainless-steel functionality amid the glare and sleaze of after-hours Leicester Square. The grilled skirt steak with beef dripping chips, herb-shallot mustard and cress...
steak frites
epic steak frites dinner: sizing up the cuts
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...
#steakfrites video 5: raw essentials
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...
#steakfrites video 3: filet au poivre
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...
#steakfrites video 2: the shalls & shallots of onglet
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 frites – mastering the cuts
To enhance and celebrate our shared appreciation for an unsurpassed pairing of meat and potatoes, youngandfoodish launches steak frites - mastering the cuts, a series of 6 web videos featuring Racine chef Henry Harris, with meat by Darragh O'Shea of O'Shea's of...
Bistro steak with Béarnaise sauce
Parisian bistro chefs invariably prefer the sizzling sear of a frypan to that of a charcoal or wood-fired grill for their steaks. They're after the reddish sheen mastered by chef Thierry Laurent at the marvelous Le Bistrot Paul Bert. To ensure your steaks have that...