Review | New restaurants in Hong Kong: Steak on Elgin in SoHo – special aged beef and a boozy trifle

One guess at what dishes Steak on Elgin serves, and where it’s located. The menu at the new restaurant is as straightforward as its name; when we went a few weeks ago, during its soft opening phase, there were just five appetisers, five cuts of beef, one non-beef main (Iberico pork shoulder), a few sides and three desserts, including a cheese selection.

The menu has expanded slightly since then; they are even offering a fish main course.

The beef selection is interesting: they specialise in UK native-breed dry-aged 100 per cent grass-fed beef, Kettyle Irish salt moss cave-aged beef and one Hanwoo (“Korean beef”) 1++ fillet mignon.

The manager warned us that because the British and Irish beef was grass-fed, the steaks would be a little chewier than corn-fed, and said that if we wanted tenderness we should try the Korean beef.

My guest and I chose the UK dry-aged rib-eye (HK$595) and Irish sirloin (HK$695), and, expecting the steaks to be too large for us to have space for appetisers, ate the delicious, crusty bread and Bordier seaweed butter while we waited for them to cook.

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Perhaps because of the manager’s warning, we found both cuts of beef to be more tender than we expected. We tasted hints of rosemary in the beef (the cuts had been “finished” with butter and the herb).