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- Hoxton’s art’otel will open 25th floor restaurant Solaya from Kenny Atkinson
7/8/25 - updated with the opening date
When the swanky art’otel chain opened its second London outpost in Hoxton in 2024, we told you about its ground-floor dining experience Brush East London Grand Café. Well, the hotel has just announced its latest restaurant, and
... - Test Driving Shanghai Me, high-rise in Mayfair meets high-end prices
The restaurant at the top of the Park Lane Hilton has transformed into the high-end pan-Asian Shanghai Me. We popped up to the 28th floor to see just how the new restaurant and bar are settling in.
- Is Gordon Ramsay opening his City restaurant 24 hours a day?
One of the city's most well-known 24-hour restaurants in London is the sky-high Duck & Waffle in the City. But now it looks like another restaurant is getting in on the action, one that literally looks down on Duck & Waffle.
News has reached us of a recent planning application to the City of London to change the hours of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate,
... - Shanghai Me is the new rooftop restaurant at The London Hilton on Park Lane
2/7/24 - Updated with the opening date
Ever since the Galvin Brothers announced that they were closing their rooftop restaurant at the London Hilton on Park Lane after 18 successful years, there was speculation on what was going to take its place. Hot Dinners was originally the first to
... - CÉ LA VI in Paddington will be the highest rooftop restaurant in West London
13/6/25 - updated with a look at the new restaurant's design
If you've ever watched Crazy Rich Asians and wondered what it was like dining at the top of that amazing hotel in Singapore, well you're soon going to get the next best thing. That's because CÉ LA VI, which is the restaurant, bar and club at the top of the famous Marina Bay Sands hotel, is opening in the rooftop space of the new Renzo Piano
... - Test Driving Luna, a City omakase that brings a modern sensibility to the classic sushi experience
Featuring the lunar cycle as its theme, this high rise omakase restaurant turns out to be a lot of fun for the dinner guests.
- Kokin brings whole tuna nights and sushi to Stratford (taking over from Allegra)
You may recall a few weeks ago we reported on the changes afoot at South Bank restaurant Hannah which was morphing into a claypot offering Donabe at the same time as moving their sushi operation to Stratford in the form of Kokin.
Now we can reveal exactly what they have planned for their foray into East London.
... - Test Driving TENrei the art of tuna ceremony at Los Mochis London City
Los Mochis London City is offering an immersive experience where diners get to see a whole bluefin tuna broken down for an omakase dinner. We managed to get some seats at the sushi counter to see what exactly goes on at an evening like this.
- Bar crawl: high rise martinis, fried chicken and Champagne at Oblix at The Shard
We finish off the year trying a brand new happy hour meal with one of those jaw dropping views over London that still packs a thrill.
- London is getting a hot new rooftop bar ABar Rooftop at the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair
It may not be the optimum time of year in London to be unveiling a new rooftop bar, but that's not stopping the folks at the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair. They're about to throw open the doors to the Abar Rooftop at their hotel just off Hanover Square.
The new bar boasts views across Mayfair, an area not all that blessed with good rooftop drinking spaces, and there'll be room for 50 indoors along
... - Gordon Ramsay is opening London's highest restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate
Updated 10/10/24 with more details
It's big news when Gordon Ramsay reveals he's opening five (FIVE!) new restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate next year. The skyscraper in the City of London is the UK's tallest office building and Ramsay will have a number of restaurants and bars right at the top.
The biggest reveal is that the 60th floor of the
... - The best high-rise restaurants in London, with great views across town
Along with having some of the best restaurants in the world, we think London's also blessed with some of the best high-rise dining options too. Here's a run-down of some of the best out there.
- Endo at the Rotunda is reopening with three important changes
It's one of the most highly-rated sushi restaurants in London. But when Endo at the Rotunda reopens next month following a five-month closure for refurbishment there are going to be some key changes you need to know about.
The first is that it's going to be even harder to get a reservation. Before there were seats for 11 guests up at the omakase counter. Now that it's been reduced in size to increase intimacy between the
... - Decimo
High-rise King's Cross Mexican/Spanish restaurant
- Chef Kerth Gumbs takes over at high rise City restaurant Fenchurch at Sky Garden
It's all change at high rise City restaurant Fenchurch at Sky Garden, with the arrival of Kerth Gumbs as Head Chef.
Gumbs, you may recognise from his stints as a finalist on the Great British Menu (back when he heading up the kitchens at Ormer in Mayfair). He's also due to get a lot of screen time next year when he joins BBC Three's new Young MasterChef as a judge.
It's a good move for Sky
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