Closing

It feels like there has been a flurry of closures in recent weeks and here comes another (but it's not all bad news). 

Hill & Szrok on Broadway Market have announced that they're finishing up as a restaurant after 11 years of service. If you're unfamiliar with

It's one of Kentish Town's best bakeries but even the allure of their amazing ube tarts and pandesal buns hasn't been enough to save Filipino bakery and cafe Panadera from the threat of closure. Posting on Instagram, owner and co-founder Florence Mae revealed that they would be closing at the end of this month.

"With a very heavy heart, I have to share that Panadera will be leaving Kentish Town this January," she wrote.

Just over two years after the glitzy opening of Björn Frantzén's much-vaunted restaurant at Harrods, the Swedish chef has very quietly closed the doors on that partnership. The announcement was made on Boxing Day on Studio Frantzén's Instagram feed, so understandably most of us missed it. Kudos then to restaurant guide ...

Although the news was first previewed in an article on Michelin-star closures in the Times back in September, it was still a shock to read late on Friday that Georgio Locatelli's Locanda Locatelli has now closed its doors for good. It's another very high-profile closure in London, and

It's a bleak start to the week for Finsbury Park residents as two local favourites announce their closure. A few days ago residents noticed that the Pizza Pilgrims restaurant on Seven Sisters Road had closed and removed its sign. Hopes that this was part of a rebrand were dashed when Hot Dinners was told: "we’re building a sustainable business for the longer term and this location just isn’t quite right for the full experience

Well this is a sad story to be sharing with you on a Monday morning. It wasn't that long ago that we enjoyed a fabulous day cruising down the Regent's Canal on the canal boat restaurant The Prince Regent. But all good things must come to an end and over the weekend the London Shell Co announced that they are

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They had a star-studded party to launch it, but just five months after it opened Mimosa at The Langham has already closed its doors. All mention of the restaurant has been removed from the hotel's website and, when we called, a representative of the hotel told Hot Dinners that it was shut 'indefinitely'. That was later changed to "Mimosa has now closed."

It's one of the

It's been a particularly harsh summer for London's restaurants with a number of prominent closures and now there's news of another one. After 17 Years, Hereford Road in Westbourne Grove has closed down. 

The restaurant was set up by Tom Pemberton, a former head chef of St.

The year of high-profile closures continues. The latest restaurant to reveal that it's shutting the doors, after nine years, is Pidgin, James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy's Hackney restaurant. But just because they're leaving, it doesn't mean it's quite the end for this tiny Hackney restaurant. 

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The slew of London restaurant closures continues with the news today that the much-loved Islington restaurant 12:51 will have its final service next month.

Owner chef James Cochran says: "After almost 7 years, I have decided it’s the end of a chapter for me, and

It's been a year since the Highbury branch of the popular French restaurant Patron closed its doors, ostensibly for a few months to allow the building to be underpinned. Many, many months on from that the owners have made the announcement this week that they won't be returning to Blackstock Road.

But this isn't a tale of restaurant costs forcing a closure, it's much darker than that. Speaking to Hot Dinners this

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The NTIA (Night Time Industries Association) has now launched a campaign to save Boxpark Shoreditch from redevelopment. "We are calling on Hackney Council to review their decision and offer a reprieve," said a spokesman. "The decision as it stands will likely lead to the site being left derelict for a minimum of six months and potentially years to come while awaiting

He's recently had a big success with his latest opening Bruno in Victoria Park, but after ten years Michael Sager has decided to call it a day on his Sager + Wilde restaurant in Bethnal Green. 

It opened back in 2015 on Paradise Row and while a few restaurants had difficulty in

In news that is actually not that surprising when you see how many restaurants he's actually opening, Jason Atherton has announced that he's closing Social Eating House in Soho. It's been reported

There's news of another big restaurant closure today - this time it's Tom Brown's Michelin-starred Cornerstone in Hackney. 

There had been rumours that Brown was looking to relocate Cornerstone to a more central location, but apparently that's no longer the case. According to hospitality website ...