New opening

• Smokehouse to open Little Smoke meat restaurant at City Point

  

  City carnivores should look out for a new restaurant launching this Autumn. Little Smoke is from the team behind Smokehouse, The Pig and Butcher, and The Princess of Shoreditch. And it's ALL about meat - in particular native and rare breed meat. It's taking over the Bad Oeuf site in Citypoint.

  The idea is that all the meat for the restaurant will be sourced from small independent farmers before being butchered on-site at sister restaurant

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• New York's Dominique Ansel Bakery are bringing the Cronut to London

  

  6/9/16 - updated with details of exclusive London products including the Welsh rarebit croissant (pictured)

  Dominique Ansel Bakery is one of the most popular bakeries in New York - and a great deal of that is down to them creating the behemoth donut/croissant mash-up, The Cronut®. And now they're coming to London.

  It was announced

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• Butchies are opening their first fried chicken hatch in Camden Market

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Even before we tried their amazing fried chicken at this year's Taste of London, there was a lot of buzz around Irish duo Garrett and Emer Fitzgerald of Butchies. So it's not at all suprising, just very pleasing, to learn that the street food duo are about to open their first bricks and mortar place.

  The new Butchies' Hatch will open in Camden Market this month - expect it to build on the huge following

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• Dirty Bones is coming to Shoreditch and they're bringing the Mac Daddy

  

  Updated with menu and soft launch details

  If you're in East London and ever fancied a Dirty Bones's Mac Daddy (a burger covered in Mac n Cheese which is VERY good), you soon won't have far to go. They've just announced their third outpost, opening in the heart of Shoreditch. 

  They're opening around the corner from Beach Blanket Babylon with their latest, a big space that's taking over a Grade II listed

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• Pear Tree Cafe to open overlooking the Boating Lake in Battersea Park

  

  Anyone taking a stroll round Battersea Park this Autumn will soon have what looks to be an exciting cafe to try. Pear Tree Café, which will overlook the park's Boating Lake, is a new venture by Annabel Partridge and Will Burrett, former Sous Chefs at Petersham Nurseries and Spring Restaurant respectively.

  Mainly a daytime cafe it'll be serving breakfast and a seasonal all-day lunch menu until dusk on weekdays, brunch at weekends but with regular pop-up

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• Burgerfi comes to London, starting with burgers for Wembley

  

  More burger news as another US burger chain is making its way across the Atlantic. They're planning to launch a few outlets, but Burgerfi starting somewhat outside the centre in Wembley Shopping Centre. And they've teamed up with sustainability chef Arthur Potts Dawson too. So expect local Aberdeen Angus British beef and a big focus on recycling too. 

  As for the burgers themselves - they say everything is cooked to

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• The hottest restaurants opening in London in Autumn 2016

  As summer slowly draws to a close, it's time to cast an eye forward and look at some of the most promising restaurants coming out later this year... 

• Patty&Bun's next burger joint will be on Goodge Street

  

  Hot Dinners Exclusive

  It seems fitting that we have more burger news the day before National Burger Day. We just had word that Patty&Bun have confirmed that they're opening their next place on Goodge Street.

  All the usual favourites will be making their way to Goodge Street, including the mighty Ari Gold (Beef patty, Cheese, Lettuce, Tomato, Pickled onions, Ketchup, Smokey P&B mayo,

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• Robert De Niro to open the Wellington Hotel in Covent Garden

  

  So Robert De Niro has just been given the go-ahead to open his first hotel in London (his third after New York and the Philippines). Here's what you need to know about it.

  • It's in Covent Garden - the new hotel will take over a triangular block between Wellington Street, Tavistock Street, Burleigh Street and Exeter Street. The address will give the hotel its name, the Wellington.
  • Expect it to be pretty darned big - the plans submitted to
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• Over Easy all-day-brunch comes to Marylebone

  

  Brunch continues to be a Big Thing in London restaurants, so the arrival of a new all-day brunch spot should go down very well. Over Easy is from the same people behind Opium and Salvador and Amanda and is opening just around the corner from Selfridges. So it'll be a handy shopping retreat.

  On that brunch-heavy menu will be:

  • Sweetcorn Doughnuts with Jalapeño Jelly (£3)
  • Baked Eggs - spiced tomato ragout,
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• Deptford gets a new gastropub The Brookmill

  

  Down in Deptford the food scene is going great guns - and now there's a cracking new gastropub to entice locals. The Brookmill, which opens just after the August bank holiday, is the sister pub to The Great North Wood.

  For a gastropub its foodie credentials are impeccable with the kitchen headed up by chef Olly Marlowe who was previously sous chef at the Michelin-starred The Glasshouse and Chez Bruce.

  Olly's menu sounds pretty amazing with sample dishes

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• Chick n Sours is coming to Seven Dials

  

  16/8/16 - updated with an opening date and LOTS more of the menu.
  

  We unashamedly LOVE Chick 'n' Sours. Everything we've had there from the AMAZING Szechuan aubergine dish to the massive deep fried whole chicken hasn't failed to thrill. Our only regret is not making it out to Dalston enough - so

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• The Frontline restaurant in Paddington is getting a major facelift

  

  Giles Coren once called it "a staggering find: big, grown-up, lots of wood, but light and jolly with just a hint of foreign battles". Now Paddington's famous Frontline restaurant is having a major facelift.

  If you haven't heard of the place before, it may be because this is the restaurant of a member's club (although it's always been open to the public). The Frontline Club is, as they describe themselves, "an internationally regarded watering hole for well-

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• inamo is opening its third restaurant at Mornington Crescent

  

  Hot on the heels of Kerb opening its latest marketthere, Camden is going to be the home of the next venue for the interactive dining company inamo. Expect interactive tableclothes where you can rate your dishes and doodle as you dine as well as a street food style bar menu.

  The Camden branch, which will open this Autumn opposite Morning Crescent tube

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• Absurd Bird brings chicken and moonshine cocktails to Soho

  

  Opening in Soho today is London's latest chicken shop - the second restaurant from fledgling group Absurd Bird. The food's the same for anyone who knows their existing restaurant in Shoreditch- waffle cones with popcorn chicken, buffalo wings, jalapeno mac and cheese and really a whole lot of ethically sourced free-range chicken.

  Cocktail lovers should head downstairs to their basement bar which they've done out like an old southern saloon with a cocktail

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