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• Mama Shelter comes to London, opening in Hackney

  

  Originating in Paris, Mama Shelter has spread throughout the world and has finally landed in London too. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're best described as cut-price accommodation with a bit of party central downstairs, all from the family that co-founded Club Med. We stayed in the Paris Mama Shelter earlier this year and found it to be a very handy base in the

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• Test Driving Theo Randall at The Intercontinental

  

  In our ongoing series of celebrating London's classic restaurants, we went to check out Theo Randall at the Intercontinental on London's Park Lane.

• Test Driving Isla - Adam Rawson goes coastal at The Standard

  Adam Rawson has not one but two restaurants at The Standard hotel in King's Cross. We check out the coastal cuisine at Isla.  

• The Prince Akatoki London hotel sees luxury Japanese group take over The Arch London

   

  Following a £3m makeover this Marble Arch Hotel is being transformed into a luxury property where the restaurant and bar are promising a full Japanese experience.

• Isla and Double Standard in King's Cross are Adam Rawson's restaurants at The Standard London

  The huge Standard hotel comes with not one, but two ground floor drinking spaces. Run by ex-Pachamama chef Adam Rawson, there will be Isla (focusing on British coastal cuisine) and the more British pub/dive bar Double Standard. 

• The Six Restaurant at the Kings Arms by Hampton Court sees Michelin-starred chef Mark Kempson in charge of the menu

  A historic 18th century inn has been given a 21st century makeover with a top kitchen team in place for its hotel restaurant.

• 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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• Jason Atherton is opening The Betterment at The Biltmore hotel in Mayfair

  We hear that Jason Atherton has been lined up to run all the food side of things at this new London hotel - right opposite his old boss Gordon Ramsay's new restaurant

• Sette at the Bulgari Hotel London will be the first UK restaurant from the folks behind NYC's Scarpetta

  It's all change at the Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge where Rivea is being replaced by Sette and the whole restaurant and bar is being turned, literally, upside down.

• The Buxton is a pub with rooms on Brick Lane from the Culpeper

  The team responsible for The Culpeper in Aldgate have a new project - they're opening this pub and hotel on Brick Lane where the rooftop terrace features an honesty bar and hot tub.

• Asia de Cuba is closing after 20 years - but what's taking its place?

  

  It's all change at the St Martins Lane Hotel today with the announcement that they're closing their 20 year old Asia de Cuba restaurant this week. Thursday will be the final day of service for the Chino-Latino restaurant which, to begin with, will be replaced by a popup restaurant for the next month or so.

  The popup, St Martins Lane Kitchen, will take its cue from the foods of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. So think Soft Shell Crab, Vietnamese Pomelo

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• Good news - Marcus Wareing has just put his custard tart back on the menu in Knightbridge

  

  One properly iconic London dish is Marcus Wareing's custard tart. Adapted from his own grandmother's recipe, it first hit centre stage when it was picked as the dessert course in the first ever Great British Menu back in 2006. That's when Marcus cooked it for the Queen’s official 80th birthday lunch at Mansion House.

  At the time he told The FT, "The challenge is in getting the right balance between egg, cream, sugar and milk. It took weeks to

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• Inspired by London and made in Chelsea - inside Adam Handling at the Belmond Cadogan Hotel

  Adam Handling shows us round his new restaurant and bar inside the Belmond Cadogan Hotel in Chelsea.

• The Connaught's annual Galette des Rois party brings London's restaurant crowd out in force

  

  Given that they're usually the ones providing the hospitality, there's nothing London's restaurant folk like more than a good party themselves. And the annual Galette des Rois hosted by Helene Darroze at The Connaught is hands-down one of the best of the year.

  Last night, throngs of chefs, food writers and restaurateurs pitched up at the hotel in Mayfair for the now-traditional January shindig. In the crowd, we spotted Raymond Blanc (who ...

• Da Terra at the Town Hall Hotel sees a top San Sebastian and an ex-Aulis chef open in Bethnal Green

  The space that once housed Viajante and The Typing Room will now be a modern Latin American restaurant run by two chefs who arrive here via The Fat Duck, Fera and the Michelin-starred restaurant Amelia San Sebastian.