Review: Flat Iron, Covent Garden

I do like a cleaver

I've been wanting to try this out for a while - I mean, £10 steak, who wouldn't. But the only issue was that the sites only offered waiting times of 2 and a half hours, so I was extremely happy when I heard they had opened a Flat Iron in Covent Garden which seats a hell of a lot more people.

I'd never heard of the flat iron cut I must admit so was intrigued as I usually like my steak with a bit of fat on it. But the steak was very lean and tender. Very easy to eat which is good for someone like me, as my arms often end up aching cutting up meat (although this meat came already sliced - bonus point). I had mine with horseradish cream.

The beef dripping chips were flavoursome and I could have eaten more. They did remind me slightly of McDonald's chips but in a fresh way - that's not meant as a bad thing, but they did remind me of them (sorry).

The wine I had was also very nice - a red wine I've never heard of before, I usually go for the Argentinian Malbec but it wasn't on offer unfortunately.

I had the Spicy Italian Negroamaro, the Black Cherry was also very smooth

I would also recommend looking at the special's board as a rump heart was on offer, as well as a burger.

The surprising thing was that they offered ice cream at the end... for FREE. Salted caramel with a tasty cone to go with it, with chocolate from the Mast Brothers. It was really good - even on a cold evening.

Cool pepper mill, although I was a bit clumsy with it and ended up with an uneven bit of pepper...

I would definitely come here again, easy, quick and full of flavour. Even with a limited menu there should be enough to keep everyone happy.

RATING: 3.5 out of 5

Roast Dinner

I've always been put off making a whole chicken - mainly because I assumed it would be a lot of work and it'll be really messy...how wrong I was.

I was persuaded by it - what with it only being £4.50 for the whole thing from Tesco, compare that to buying chicken breasts or chicken legs, you're saving a lot of money.

My next challenge was to find which method was the best way to cook it - I turned to Google, my old friend and obviously went for the Jamie Oliver link - I love a bit of lemon.

It was probably one of the easiest and exciting recipes to follow. I couldn't contain my excitement when I has instructed to put the lemon and a whole clove of garlic into the water with potatoes to boil.

What came out, looked a lot like Jamie's picture...would totally recommend!

I also made my own Yorkshire Puddings, because obviously you have to.

Oven ready