The Three Cranes (City of London)

• The Three Cranes has been refurbished and is open under new management with a new menu
• I was surprised to see some empty tables tonight during the soft launch period so if you are looking for somewhere to eat in the City this Wednesday night I would recommend booking the Three Cranes
• The restaurant is a small room on the first floor above the pub seating 30
• Genteel woody atmosphere with leather banquettes
• The new menu is strictly for carnivores
• Starters there was a frisee based salad
• Steak tartare and smoked eel with horseradish cream
• Mains all come with fries and salad and consisted of rib eye
• Everything is well sourced and well executed
• We shared the charcuterie which was a nice variety of thinly sliced dry salamis and chorizos
• Mains I wanted the onglet which is an excellent cut to have very rare
• Unfortunately it was sold out so I had the 10 ounce rib eye with bone marrow butter
• They produced it somewhere between medium rare and rare which is a knowledgable compromise for a cut that is really too fatty to eat rare
• My companion was equally impressed by his two lamb chops
• He didn't specify how he wanted them cooked but they came medium rare and were extremely tender
• His anchovy and rosemary butter was an excellent accompaniment
• Side salad contained a large variety of leaves with varying degrees of pepperiness and herbiness
• 64 at full price which is modest for superb steak in the City

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