For one of our
fabulous monthly girl’s nights we booked two tables at the legendary steak
house HQ. I have only been here for a couple of drinks before, but I had heard
only good things about their steaks! We bought a City Mob deal which included a
3 course meal plus 5 bottles of wine (Simply
Red & Simply White by Vins d’Orrance) for 10 people for R1310. An
absolute bargain if you ask me!
For those of you
that don’t know, HQ only sells steak (sirloin), salad and chips. So there is no
extensive menu from which to choose. If you don’t feel like steak then don’t even
bother going here. So our first course was Cos
lettuce, roasted pine nuts, parmesan shavings with Dijon mustard vinaigrette which
was totally delicious!
For mains we had
the 250g minimum 35 day aged Sirloin
steak, imported from Namibia, free range and organic served with Café de Paris
Butter and skinny fries. I asked for mine to be served Medium-Rare, which
is the only way a steak should be eaten! It was beyond amazing!!!! I don’t think
I have ever before had a more delicious steak! Wow!!! Cooked to absolute
perfection! It was so tender and juicy packed with bursting flavour! From now
on if I crave steak there is no question as to where I would be going to satisfy
my craving! Can’t wait to take the fiancé there as I know he’ll love it as
well! It is so simply if you think about it! They have taken away the fanciness
of having a menu with multiple choices and instead have gone back to basics,
which is making one meal exceptionally well! Unfortunately I couldn’t finish my
steak and I knew I had to keep some space for dessert as well.
For dessert we
got to choose between Chocolate fondant
with vanilla ice cream or Crème Brulee. For me the choice here was dead
obvious as I’m a TOTAL lover of chocolate and I think Crème Brulee is totally
over rated! Maybe I am yet to come across one that will blow my mind. As if
ruining my taste buds for any future piece of meat wasn’t enough, they had to hit
me right on my chocolate soft spot as well! What more could you ask for in any
dessert than warm crispy chocolate pudding filled with the most gooey chocolate
centre, topped with vanilla ice cream. It was amazing to say the least!
The wine went
down well too, but of course nothing in comparison to the food!
Overall a great
experience and whenever someone asks me to recommend a good steak restaurant I would
not hesitate twice to recommend this one!
Yours in fun
& yummy cow,Elly D
100 Shortmarket Street
Cape Town
021-424 6373
info@hqrestaurant.co.za
www.hqrestaurant.co.za
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