POSH STEAK AND EVEN A READY-MADE MARTINI

Hawksmoor At Home, £120 for two including ready-mixed martini, red wine and lager thehawksmoor.com

WHAT IS IT? The steak experts offer two menus designed especially for your barbecue. I opt for a Porterhouse steak for two, roast potatoes and broccoli with Gentleman’s relish butter.

EASY TO MAKE? The dry-aged, traditional grass-fed Porterhouse steak is superb: substantial, rich, fatty and smoky, as exceptional as Hawksmoor devotees would expect. If you don’t have a charcoal barbecue, use a ridged skillet indoors and strictly no oil.

Hawksmoor suggests cooking slowly to get the colour and char all the way around the outside of the steaks. This means it remains juicy inside and not overcooked.

Meanwhile, I mix the bone marrow provided separately with the gravy and veal stock on the hob to make a sauce.

There are Koffmann’s potatoes (that is legendary chef Pierre Koffmann and his wife Claire’s potato company: Claire has worked selling potatoes to chefs all her life) to oven roast with beef dripping, plus broccoli with spicy anchovy, also known as Gentleman’s relish, butter — a winning combination.

Most thrilling of all is the 200ml bottle of Martini mix, which I chill in the freezer for 90 minutes before serving in frosted martini glasses.

The box also comes with two cans of beer and a good bottle of red wine to accompany the monumental steak. While pricey for a barbecue, it made for a memorable and boozy night in. 4/5