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- Test Driving Santo Remedio - London gets a long awaited authentic Mexican restaurant
We take a visit to Santo Remedio, a new Mexican restaurant in Shoreditch finally bringing some authentic Mexican cuisine to London. - Santa Maria pizza to open a new restaurant in Chelsea
Updated 4/4/16 with soft launch details
One of London's most highly rated pizzerias has just announced its plans to open a new restaurant. Santa Maria has been wowing pizza lovers in Ealing since they first opened four years ago. "Genuinely excellent pizza," said critic Andy Hayler of his meal there.
Owners are Pasquale Chionchio and Angelo Ambrosio also opened Sacre Cuore over in Kensal Rise in 2012, but their new restaurant in Chelsea will be
... - Enoteca Da Luca modern Italian opens in The Bower development on Old Street
Old Street continues to attract new and interesting restaurants this year. Following on from Hill & Szrok and news of Sardine opening in May, comes Enoteca Da Luca. This is the latest launch from the Enoteca restaurant group which
... - Distance will be London's first globavore restaurant
Updated 12pm
A surprising number of you didn't actually twig that this was our April Fool this year. We've had people contacting us about PR, wondering about soft launch dates - you name it. So if anyone's looking for a new business idea, this one's free!
Here at Hot Dinners we've pretty much lost count of the press releases we've had in where a restaurant's menu promises to
... - Soho House opening Cafe Monico on Shaftesbury Avenue
Making a change from their ongoing expansion of Chicken Shop and Dirty Burger, Soho House have a brand new restaurant coming to town.
Cafe Monico sees them reviving the name of a vintage restaurant that was originally set up in the area back in 1877 and which originally overlooked Piccadilly Circus. The new location (which may be where the original moved to - we couldn't dig that up) is a little further away on Shaftesbury Avenue. It's a street not currently
... - No 197 Chiswick Fire Station will be Darwin & Wallace's fourth opening
Burgeoning bar and restaurant group Darwin & Wallace are continuing their south London empire building with news of a fourth restaurant opening this Spring. No 197 Chiswick Fire Station is - it will come as no surprise - set in Chiswick's old fire station, but was more recently an All Bar One.
It sounds like there'll be plenty of space for alfresco dining come the summer as they've opened up a courtyard space at the back. On the food front
... - Is Pied Nus reopening on Exmouth Market?
We may have good news for fans of David Moore's (Pied a Terre/L'autre pied) Marylebone restaurant Pied Nus. The long-term pop up finally closed its doors in 2014 but it seemed there were always plans to resurrect it again.
Now we hear rumours that they have their sights set on a space in Exmouth Market and are hoping to take over the spot where Sade was. They're looking to open seven days a week with late-ish openings at the weekend.
Pied Nus
... - MEATliquor is coming to East Dulwich
There seems to be no end in sight to the ever-growing MEATliquor expansion in sight. After setting up shop in Croydon, they next have plans to open in East Dulwich, taking over the spot from the Sea Cow. As for what to expect, it'll be plenty of Dead Hippies, some of the best burgers in town, Monkey Fingers (buffalo chicken) and lots more - alongside some lethal cocktails.
MEATliquor East Dulwich will open w/c 12 Sept at
... - The Harcourt European restaurant with Nordic influences opening in Marylebone
Updated 24/3/16 with soft launch details
The Harcourt from Andrew Endean (from Hotel du Vin and Malmaison) will be a new European restaurant with more than a nod towards Nordic Cuisine. And that's a nod to its past in the guise of the Harcourt Arms.
In the kitchen is head chef Kimmo Makkonen, who’s pulling together an all-day dining menu “with Scandinavian elements”. Some of those include Swedish afternoon “Fika” (coffee break) and more. Much of the
... - Former Rotorino chef is opening Sardine at Old Street's Parasol gallery
A protégé of Stevie Parle is promising to bring a taste of the Mediterranean to Old Street this summer. Sardine - a name which had originally been linked to Parle's last restaurant - is opening in an annexe next to the Parasol art gallery.
Here's what we know about it:
It'll be open all day - from breakfast through to supper
The meat and fish will be from the
... - Four Winters liquid nitrogen ice-cream parlour is opening on Gloucester Road
It's officially Spring, so what better time to open a liquid nitrogen ice cream parlour? Four Winters is an ice-cream company with its roots in Jordan. They're bringing their high tech take on ice-cream to Gloucester Road with their first London parlour opening in April.
If you've ever tried this kind of ice-cream, made while you wait (maybe at Camden's Chin Chin Labs), it's incredibly smooth. Four Winters have some rather lovely flavours planned
... - Dip & Flip to open on Brixton's Atlantic Road
Growing south London chain Dip & Flip is going to be opening a fourth restaurant this summer. The company, which currently has branches in Battersea, Tooting and Wimbledon, will be opening on Atlantic Road in Brixton. They'll be taking over the site once held by Kaff.
And while their menu will, in the main, be the same as the other restaurants, we're told there will be a few new additions in Brixton with an emphasis on their roast meat sandwiches dipped
... - Milan's Savini restaurant takes over The Criterion
In 2015 we had the sad, but not wholly unexpected news that The Criterion - one of London's oldest restaurants - had gone into administration. But the historic restaurant's fortunes took a turn for the better at the beginning of this year when it was taken over by the illustrious Milanese company Savini.
The restaurant is now open all day - serving everything from a full English to dishes of Parma ham for breakfast. There's a set lunch (2 courses £26) with dishes like
... - Sourced Market is coming to Marylebone
Updated 16/3/16 with news on the soft launch
One of the best things about St Pancras station is definitely Sourced Market which has fuelled many of Hot Dinners' trips from that station. And now we hear that following a successful Crowdcube campaign, it's going to be opening two new shops in Marylebone and Victoria next year.
The stores will stock more than 100 small artisan food and drink suppliers from across the country including
... - Whisky bar Black Rock comes to Shoreditch from the people behind Worship Street
Updated 10/3/16 with a look at the menu
It's all about the whisky at the moment - with incoming news that the same people behind the Worship Street Whistling Shop are opening Black Rock, a whisky bar in Shoreditch.
In that bar, we're to expect a stripped-back space with "a hip-hop, electro-funk soundtrack". But the centrepiece - in a big reference to the aging process -
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