restaurant reviews: Black&Blue, Notting Hill, London

my dad knows his meats, and we are not talking restaurant knowledge, we are talking butcher knowledge.
so when he comes visiting wherever I am, I have to work hard to find a good steak house that will please him.
yesterday after a lot of research my choice fell on Back&Blue, the Notting Hill branch.
they don’t take reservations, so we went early, say before 20:00 and the place was more than half empty, so we got a nice table for four for the 2 of us straight away. they have a bar and an extra area where people can sit and have drink should they have to wait for a table to become available.
the menu is pleasantly short, all in one page, maybe a long page but one.
starters, steaks, burgers, some fish and extra bits and pieces I guess to please a larger audience.
the steak submenu is simple: fillet (200g, 23gbp), ribeye, t-bone, a super beef platter (600g) of beef, and sirloin. Rump was missing at least in yesterday’s evening menu.
we quickly order, my dad got also a Pimm’s drink (unfortunately we don’t drink wine so I can’t comment on that side). All the steak come with chips and salad and a choice of sauces.
I was surprised and a little bit worried when our steaks turned up within 10 mins. I guess we were lucky that there were still few patrons in the restaurant and that we both went for the steak with no starters.
The salad came in a shared bowl, a nice leafy salad with walnuts, a generous portion, on top of some extra salad and a tomato slice on the steaks plate with the chips. 4 sauces for the chips are available, mayo, ketchup and 2 types of mustard: a hotter one and a milder one.
I had a medium rare ribeye and my dad a medium-well-done fillet.
It was really nice meat, tender, juicy, full of flavour, it melted in my mouth.
The chips were nice, almost perfect.
Everything was really nice. The bill for the 2 steaks the pimm’s and 2 bottle of mineral water, service included, came just over 50gbp.
I can recommend this restaurant and I will be going back with some carnivorous friend to try the Cote de beuf 600g beef extravaganza. Besides I need to go to test the burger experience.
Restaurant website: http://www.blackandbluerestaurants.com/