Biggest news of the week without doubt is the Times story that the Post Office Tower restaurant is to re-open. Apparently BT are already on the hunt for a household name to take on the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower. Hot Dinners had the good fortune to be taken to the restaurant several times during the seventies and while we can't remember a jot about the food, we do remember the heady thrill of dining in a restaurant on the move. We're sure various sophisticated commentators will come along to pour scorn on the very notion of a revolving restaurant, but when the tower re-opens for Christmas 2011 (it closed to the public back in 1980 for 'security reasons', you can be sure Hot Dinners will be first to bag a table.
Other interesting, if perhaps not quite as thrilling, news we foraged for you this week:
- Eel be back: Conservationists protest over Masterchef's decision to put eel on the menu
- Hellish nightmares are over: Both Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White call time on Kitchen Nightmares and Hells Kitchen respectively.
- How to get rid of McDonalds - it's easy, just plunge your country into the biggest financial nightmare it's ever encountered, and say goodbye to the golden arches
- And you thought London was an expensive place to eat. Roman Abramovich drops $50k on a single meal in New York
- Generic wizard and the Chamber of Horrors: Underground restaurant-runner Ms Marmite Lover attracts the attention of the Warner Bros lawyers
- New culinary revolution: Chicken tikka massala begone - Spring Rolls are now the nation's favourite food as Chinese overtakes Indian in ready meals sales.
- If you hadn't already bagged a table at Koffman's Pop-Up restaurant, get on the phone now as he's just extended till November
- Food writers are on the rampage as AA Gill shoots a baboon to expected outcry while Jamie Merril zeroes in on a deer.
- You don't say? A new Livebookings survey discovers that diners hate "discretionary" service charges, table turning and being charged for bread that they assumed was free.
