Television

• James Corden and Chris Hemsworth are battling waiters for The Late Show at The Northall

  

  You may have been aware of the fact that James Corden is currently in London filming for The Late Show. But if you were lucky enough to have been staying or eating at the Northall restaurant at the Corinthia this week, you might also have got to appear on the show.

  Corden brought his friend Chris Hemsworth to the restaurant just off Trafalgar Square for a waiter battle. He and Chris would see who could be the best

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• The Great British Menu 2019 - which London restaurants have chefs taking part?

  If you're inspired by this year's Great British Menu to try some of the chef contestants' food, here's our guide to the London restaurants with chefs taking part this year and what to order when you get there.

• Asma Khan talks about her episode on Netflix's Chef's Table

  

  25/2/19 - updated with Asma's charity details

  We've known for quite a while that London's very own Asma Khan was going to be the star of the upcoming Netflix TV series but were sworn to secrecy until Netflix deemed it time to go live with the info. And, honestly, we just couldn't be more pleased. Asma's rise to star restaurateur and chef status hasn't been an easy one, as she tells us below, but it's most

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• Million Pound Menu runners up XX/VI become KityCow and get a London residency at Hush

  

  Updated 30/2/19 with the menu

  We've just passed week two of My Million Pound Menu, where London stalwart Baba Gs came top (and you can visit them right now at Pop Brixton or Camden Market). 

  But that's not all that came out of the

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• Pilgrim are the latest winners of My Million Pound menu

  

  The winners of this week's My Million Pound Menu has been revealed - and this time it's the turn of Pilgrim, made up of Dave Bone (head chef) Jamie Duffield (front of house), and Anthony Power (marketing).

  You may well have come across them in their previous pop-ups, where they cooked up a menu of

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• Baba Gs are winners in the BBC's My Million Pound Menu

  

  In the second week of My Million Pound Menu, where Fred Sirieix and others are handing out wads of cash to promising restaurant start-ups, London stalwart Baba G's has come out top. At the end of the programme, both Jamie Barber and Atul Kochhar were bidding for them, but Kochhar came up top with his £300k

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• My Million Pound menu is back - and here's who we know is taking part...

  

  Last year's Million Pound Menu was a big success - so much so that BBC is bringing it back for a new series due next year (with the added "My" in front of the name).

  If you're unfamiliar with the concept, it sees Fred Sirieix mentoring restaurants with a view to getting investment from

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• Fred Sirieix and Allegra McEvedy join up for new CBBC show Restaurant Dream Team

  

  OK - how good does this sound? The lovely Fred Sirieix, fresh from another series of pairing up romance-searchers on First Dates, has just announced his latest TV show.

  He and chef (and the original co-founder of Leon) Allegra McEvedy - are going to be the hosts of Restaurant Dream Team. But this is no primetime show - it's actually going to be on CBBC.

  In a post on Instagram today Fred said: "we are on the hunt for the “Restaurant Dream

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• Netflix signs up Clare Smyth, James Knappett and Jay Rayner for The Final Table chef competition

  

  Update 20/11/18 - the whole series is now available on Netflix right here (assuming you're signed up). Episode 3 is the UK one and yes, the American host's understanding of current British cuisine isn't exactly what we hoped for. Tell us what you thought in the comments below...

    

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• The Great British Menu 2018 - a guide to the London restaurant chefs taking part

  If you're inspired by this year's Great British Menu to try some of the chef contestants' food, here's our guide to the London restaurants with chefs taking part, what to order and how much it costs to dine there.

• Hansom Lambert on winning on the Million Pound Menu and their upcoming restaurant Epoch

  Episode one of the BBC's new business series Million Pound Menu - think Dragons' Den meets First Dates - saw two 20-somethings picking up a whopping £750k-£1m from backer Atul Kochhar for their English restaurant venture. Hot Dinners caught up with Ruth Hansom and Emily Lambert of to find out what happened next.

• Here's who's competing in the BBC's Million Pound Menu show

  

  Right now it looks like everyone's talking about Britain's Best Chef, the TV show about to air featuring Mary Berry, Chris Bavin, Claudia Winkleman and former Duck and Waffle Head Chef Dan Doherty. But here at Hot Dinners we're more excited about Million Dollar Menu - the BBC's new restaurant show.

  Headed up by none other than First Dates (and Galvin at Windows Maitre d') Fred Sirieix, this new show gives 12 budding restaurateurs the chance to win

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• Duck and Waffle chef Dan Doherty joins Mary Berry on BBC's new Britain's Best Cook show

  

  Dan Doherty, executive chef of the Duck and Waffle is a busy chap. Over the past year he's also been busy running a series of supperclubs for his Sprout concept, he then became a dad and now he's taking on the world of TV.

  In an Instagram post at the weekend, Doherty revealed that he's joining the judges panel of the new Mary Berry

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• Great British Menu returns for 2015 with Marcus, Typing Room, Murano and Berners Tavern chefs in the running

  

  It's always been a great showcase for some of the UKs top restaurants (and a close look at how the chefs work) and soon The Great British Menu is making a return to BBC, starting on BBC2 later in the summer. This year the chefs will be cooking a dinner to celebrate 100 years of the Women's Institute at Drapers Hall in London (hence the portait referencing that calendar).

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