Very interesting news reached Hot Dinners today regarding Michelin-starred chef Georgio Locatelli. Apparently Locatelli has signed up to open one of two landmark restaurants in the luxury Renaissance Marriott hotel currently being built as part of the St Pancras redevelopment. This would be Locatelli' Read more

Update - as the restaurant is now open - read the reviews of Koffmann's.

According to news from Richard Vines at Bloomberg this morning, Pierre Koffman is returning to the kitchen full time with a brand-new London restaurant. The new restaurant is to be called "Koffman's" and will open in the Berkeley Read more

All of foodie London appeared to be at the Ivy this evening to celebrate the official launch of the London Restaurant Festival 2010.

Hot Dinners spied chefs Thomasina Miers, Rowley Leigh, Jun Tanaka as well as Pierre Koffman whose rooftop restaurant at Selfridges was last year’s festival hot ticket. Th Read more

A round-up of the week's restaurant news in London

Following the men-only Masterchef final, The Telegraph kickstarted a debate into whether men should be in charge of the  kitchen, with Christopher Hirst taking the men's side and Rose Prince voting against. Even the Independent got in on the act.

It's rolling pins at dawn as the spat between Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay escalates.

Earlier this week, Oliver was quoted in the Radio Times as saying he didn't approve of chefs 'who swear at their staff. Sometimes you feel it’s their personal problems coming out'. It doesn't take a great leap to Read more

The opening of the new Vue cinema at Westfield Shopping Centre has been such a huge success in attracting large crowds to the centre in the evenings, that it's spurred on a series of well-regarded restaurant chains to open there in the run-up to Summer.

Michael Gutman, Westfield’s managing director UK Read more

Is Theo Randall thinking of opening somewhere new in London? We ask only because when Hot Dinners caught up with the InterContinental Hotel's chef at the recent La Dolce Vita fair in London, he was particularly evasive when we quizzed him on his plans for the year.

As you'll see from our chat, it does Read more

Bar Boulud London – the first London restaurant to be opened by New York celebrity chef Daniel Boulud, has named the chef and front of house who’ll be in charge when it opens at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge this May.

Heading up the kitchens is Dean Yasharian, who’s worked with Boulud fo Read more

Jason Atherton has apparently finally taken the plunge and left Maze, just as his book Maze: The Cookbook is being published. In a short piece in tonight’s Evening Standard, it’s being reported that Atherton will leave next month after eight years working with Gordon Ramsay Holdings.

The timing also  Read more