Update 2/8/11: The opening date for Cut has just been confirmed - it will open on 1 September 2011.
One of the great joys of London in recent years has been the opening of several great steak restaurants, so it's always interesting to hear how newcomers to the market will make a difference.
Wolfgang Puck made a name for himself serving up food to the stars in Hollywood. Now he's opening his steak restaurant Cut at the new Dorchester Hotel at 45 Park Lane in September.
Among the menu items being promised are Kobe-style beef short ribs “Indian spiced,” slowly cooked for eight hours while in the starters section will be bone marrow flan with mushroom marmalade and parsley salad.
Although Cut is part of a chain - there are also branches in Las Vegas, Beverly Hills and Singapore - the London branch of Cut will be the first to offer a breakfast and lunch menu. Diners can expect an all-American feast in the morning with blackberry buttermilk pancakes with whipped Bourbon-maple butter and salt beef hash cake with poached organic eggs, crispy leeks and sauce Béarnaise. However Puck is also going to feature a version of the traditional English breakfast so that's poached organic eggs with black truffle sauce, rustic bean ragout, black pudding and house-made breakfast sausages.
For lunch the menu will include several main-course-sized salads, including heirloom tomato salad with Neil’s Yard goat curd and aged balsamic and USDA prime rib eye steak salad with Colston Bassett stilton and smoked bone marrow vinaigrette. At lunch you'll also be able to try smaller portions of the signature cuts of meat - filet, sirloin, ribeye, rib-chop, Porterhouse, bone-in New York and bone-in filet - as well as Puck's famed Spago lobster club sandwich with Applewood smoked bacon.
Front of house will be run by Loyd Loudy, who ought to know what he's doing as he helped launch both China Tang at The Dorchester and Shoreditch House.
More new restaurants:
See our full list of restaurants due to open their doors in London over the coming months.
