Hawksmoor to open second US site in Chicago
Last year, Hawksmoor became the world’s first carbon neutral steak restaurant group and set net zero plans in place
Steak restaurant Hawksmoor has announced plans to open a second restaurant in the US in Chicago.
The brand plans to open the restaurant in the first half of 2024 in the historic LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse in the windy city.
The company aims to restore the site, a 16,500 square foot three-story space at 500, which was first opened in 1887 in the heyday of Chicago’s cable car system.
Hawksmoor currently has a site in New York which was opened in September 2021.
Will Beckett, co-founder, said: “We’ve been coming to Chicago for years to spend time in the city’s great restaurants and enjoying its incredible hospitality. Chicago is the historical powerhouse of American beef, and when we found out about an actual powerhouse building, it felt like fate.”
Huw Gott, co-founder, added: “Hopefully, the way we think about food and farming – which at its heart holds that the same things that guarantee high animal welfare and regenerative farming practices also guarantee great tasting beef, as well as the way we try to look after our teams and guests, seems to have resonated in the States. We can’t wait to continue trying to build something special on that side of the Atlantic.”
Last year, Hawksmoor became the world’s first carbon neutral steak restaurant group and set net zero plans in place. It also became the first UK restaurant group to gain B Corp certification.