Foxlow, Farringdon

We've been looking forward to this one for weeks! (or months?!) After many cancellations due to clashing schedules in our busy London go getter lives, the Tuesday we've been waiting for finally arrives. Being Tuesday it's BYOB £5 corkage day! A nice little touch that Foxlow and big sister Hawksmoor have introduced (on Mondays). This means we can save some of the strain on our meagre pay packages and still enjoy the glory and splendour of a top London eatery (or blow it on ordering way more than we need, guess which one we did?....oops)

So if you don't know, Foxlow opened a while back as a new venture from the Hawksmoor team. It's a neighbourhood vibe with a mixed crowd but more suits than not. The similarities to Hawksmoor are plain to see, the menu while having a lot less steak is still based on more salt, more fat, more sugar, more flavour! (and who am I to argue with that?!) Still top notch ingredients all round and a list of delights that will get any carnivore salivating. 10 hour beef rib, 8 hour bacon, fries with chicken salt! You get the vibe...

I arrive earlier than my counterpart but am excited as I get to try out the bar and cocktails (Hawksmoor Seven Dials bar is my favourite in town). At first I'm disappointed as there is no room whatsoever to put your legs under the bar, (Russell Norman would have a field day with his tape measure) so I'm forced to kind of sit sideways and twist my spine in the direction of the bar staff. Nothing on the cocktail list immediately takes my fancy so I order an Old Fashioned (the Hawksmoor ones are killer). It's serviceable but the bar staff do not really seem to know their way around and friendly chat is nil.

At the table we order Iberico Pork Ribs (smokey, succulent, big wow chops), and Smokehouse Rillettes to start (not all that)

Our main evening meal is Ten Hour Beef Short Rib with Kimchi (MASSIVE, 'that's insane fer a main), Iberico Pork 'Pluma' (gorgeous tender steak like slices of deliciousness), fries with chicken salt (How do chickens make salt? I don't know but they'd better make some more of it!) And some much needed spring greens.

Dessert is the Elvis Presley sandwich with bacon! and a bourbon caramel Sundae. We've overdone it. But have a couple of Digestif cocktails to make sure (and some salted caramel popcorn to take home).