Blacklock

Name: Blacklock
Address: The Basement, 24 Great Windmill Street, London, Soho, W1D 7LG, UK
Rating: 7

Restaurant & Bar in Soho

7 / 10 from 1 review

Address
The Basement
24 Great Windmill Street
Soho
London
W1D 7LG

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Cuisine
Restaurant & Bar

Region
Soho

Nearest Station
Piccadilly Circus
0.14 miles

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Another cool, "no reservations" cucumber of a restaurant which has found a welcoming home in the space formerly used as a busy brothel. Nowadays 24 Windmill Street serves up chops, cocktails (for a fiver apparently) and "wine on tap". Go here for good, honest food and drink at a decent price; don't go here if you like lots of choice or are a vegetarian, and definitely don't go here if you're a vegetarian that likes lots of choice.

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All In London Review

Tastiest chops in town and cocktail prices to make you double take

Coming strong with chops, chop and more chops, Blacklock is a welcome celebration of the flavoursome on-the-bone cut. Hidden away below ground in shady, subterranean style, the Soho restaurant is an attractive idea. It’s a shame then that on the occasion we visit the place, the staff’s consistent failure to listen to our questions and orders is irking enough to make even the meltiest chop stick in the throat.

Opting for the strong painted brick, dangly light bulb, wood and iron aesthetic that you don’t see much in London – joke – Blacklock settles you as soon as you arrive; it’s as if you’ve been here before. A sort of Hawksmoor/Flatiron hybrid (it’s run by former Hawksmoor staffers), we have to admit it’s a comfortable place to take one’s chops. We go for the recommended ‘all in’, sampling a selection of sides (the fries are excellent, the charred sweet potato a little too charred to be a success) and the complete range of chops. So enter beef short rib, lamb cutlet, pork loin, pork belly and lamb t-bone to complete the pile that comes stacked on grilled flatbread. The beef short rib and lamb t-bone get the table gushing while the pork loin wins on size. Having gone ‘all in’ and found the favourites we would return to get specific.

Aside from the meat, the great thing about Blacklock is the cocktails (and the music). An Old Fashioned is £5 and they’re fantastic value. This is one of the Blacklock’s greatest attributes – they know that people would happily pay £6, £7 or even £8, so the feeling that they’re doing something for you is a sweet one. Maybe we’re naïve, maybe we’re suckers but after two of these (and a Nettle Gimlet) we’re pretty much ready to put our initial gripes against service down to a bad day for our waiting staff.

Reviewed by T.A.O anonymously on Feb 8, 2016
Published on Jan 28, 2016