In the run-up to Christmas, anything that helps Hot Dinners save money is always welcome. So we like the idea of the free Milan-style aperativo promotion that South Kensington restaurant The Collection is now running every evening.

Every day from 5pm until 7.30pm you can order a classic cocktail or Read more

He's the man behind the most-wanted burger in London. Hot Dinners chews the fat with the man responsible for the Meatwagon, #Meateasy and now MEATLiquor, Yianni Papoutsis.

How was the MEATLiquor founded, what was the thinking behind it?

There’s not really a concept as such. We found another abandoned It Read more

[Updated 7/11/2011] Union Jacks should be open from 17 November 2011.

More details are emerging about what sort of things will be on the menu when Jamie Oliver opens his first Union Jacks in Central St Giles in November. Some new blurb on the restaurant's website explains that the restaurant will be Read more

The temporary Canteen restaurant in Covent Garden market has just announced the details of three guest chefs who'll be cooking one-off meals there in December.

Angela Hartnett will team up with The Whitechapel Gallery Dining Room's Emma Duggan on the 1 December, Mark Sargeant will be there on the 8 Read more

Hot Dinners popped over to Shoreditch last night for the official opening of new restaurant Assemblage. It's the brainchild of entrepreneur Alicia Whitby and chef James Knight-Pacheco (pictured here). Knight-Pacheco was a runner-up on Raymond Blanc's TV show The Restaurant and must have impressed - Read more

Forget Hastings. Forget Trafalgar, and Waterloo. From the 29th November 2011 the lines are drawn for one of the greatest battles ever fought. Swords and guns will be replaced by bottle-openers, glasses and foot long pork scratchings, as Draft House founder Charlie McVeigh takes on Wine Chap Tom Harrow Read more

Fancy a free pastry cooked by a Michelin-starred chef for breakfast? Thought so. Then head for Old Street coffee house Shoreditch Grind tomorrow morning (Thursday 3 November 2011) where chef Robert Thompson will be taking over the breakfast service.

Thompson, who's normally to be found in the kitchens Read more

It's the time of year where the recent trend for bushy beards (honestly - has there been some sort of East London directive?) gives way to the onset of manly 'taches. The Movember charity (set up to raise awareness of prostate and other cancers that specifically affect men) is a popular event on the Read more