Television

• Anna Haugh, Grace Dent and Matt Tebutt join the MasterChef presenting teams

  

  To lose one headline presenter is a misfortune. To lose both, well, that looks like carelessness. But the good news is that the MasterChef team has wasted no time in deciding who its new hosts will be following the departure of both Gregg Wallace and John Torode. In an announcement yesterday they revealed that the two new hosts would be Anna Haugh and Grace Dent making it an all-female team that we're

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• Gordon Ramsay is filming his next London restaurant opening for Netflix

  

  There's already a lot of buzz around what Gordon Ramsay has planned for his upcoming clutch of openings at City skyscraper 22 Bishopsgate. But the chef and restaurateur is ramping things up with the announcement this week that he'll be filming the whole thing for Netflix.

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• Grace Dent and Fred Sirieix are in this year's I'm a Celebrity

  

  Forget all that whinging about Farage being in the jungle. Here at Hot Dinners, we're much more energised by the prospect of not one but two well-known figures from the London restaurant world being among this year's line-up.

  An early scoop by The Sun was confirmed last night when both Grace Dent and Fred Sirieix were announced as being among this year's contestants. Grace, as the Guardian's restaurant

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• Bake Off: The Professionals winners launch afternoon tea at The Landmark inspired by show

  

  Fresh from toasting their triumph in this year's final of Bake Off: The Professionals, the pastry team from The Landmark London hotel in Marylebone are getting ready to showcase their winning bakes to the public.

  Head Pastry Chef Mauro Di Lieto and Pastry Sous Chef, Daniel Schevenels won the closely-fought contest after weeks of wowing the judges Benoit Blin and Cherish

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• Five Star Chef winner Dom Taylor opens The Good Front Room at The Langham

  

  If a Caribbean getaway this summer is feeling a little too…well, hot, in the current climate, we have the next best thing. The Langham, London has transformed its Palm Court into a six-month Caribbean-inspired restaurant pop-up called The Good Front Room. Running it is chef Dom Taylor, fresh from winning Five Star Kitchen: Britain’s Next Great Chef on Channel 4 (and Netflix) last week.

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• MasterChef: The Professionals - what it's like to be part of the show

  

  If you've been watching MasterChef: The Professionals, you may have seen a small appearance from a couple of siblings who happen to run this very website. We were part of the pop-up episode where the chefs through to the quarter-final were cooking for "the UK's top food entrepreneurs". 

  If you've ever wondered just what happens on a day's filming for the show - here's our account of how it all went

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• Anna Haugh takes over from Monica Galetti on MasterChef: The Professionals

  

  A week after Monica Galetti stepped back from MasterChef: The Professionals to concentrate on her family and restaurant, the BBC have found her replacement.

• Great British Menu returns in 2022 with Tom Kerridge, Nisha Katona and Ed Gamble as judges

  

  24/1/22 - Updated with more news about the series

  In big news for the legions of Great British Menu fans, the BBC revealed that the series is returning... with an all-new judging panel.

  Probably the best-known name on the new judge's team is chef (and previous GBM winner) Tom Kerridge. He's joined by restaurateur and TV presenter Nisha Katona (whose Mowgli restaurant ...

• Gordon Ramsay's looking for future food stars for his TV show

  

  The first series of his new TV show hasn't even aired yet, but Gordon Ramsay is already scouting for talent for the second series which is filming this summer.

  Future Food Stars sees the chef looking for food and drink entrepreneurs to invest in. It sounds a bit like a foodie Apprentice meets Dragon's Den, or should we say Dragon as Gordon's investment is the only one they'll be competing to get.

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• London restaurants, chefs and food folk on TV this week

  

  Catch London's restaurants and food folk on TV this week

• Raymond Blanc has a TV show Simply Raymond Blanc to accompany his new book

  

  Bored of staring at the same four walls during lockdown? Well, this month ITV have plans to transport us from our homes into the gorgeous gardens and 16th-century buildings of his Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons in Oxfordshire.

  Simply Raymond Blanc is a brand new cookery show with the chef, which was filmed in the two Michelin-starred restaurant and hotel. It's Britain’s only country house hotel to have held two

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• First Dates restaurant Paternoster Chophouse has moved to Old Bailey

  

  It's one of the best-known restaurants in the UK, although pretty much everyone knows it as the First Dates restaurant. But over Lockdown Paternoster Chophouse in the City has moved from the space it occupied beside St Paul's for the past seven years into new digs.

  It reopens next week, if tier restrictions allow, at 35 Old Bailey where the Union Bar used to be. The new space will also have a bar area

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• Jack Monroe and Matt Tebbutt join forces for Daily Kitchen show on the BBC

  

  Twitter burst into spontaneous virtual applause today with the news that the BBC has commissioned Jack Monroe for its newest cookery programme. Following weeks in which Jack's legions of fans urged The Beeb to bring the author, famous for her budget-conscious recipes, to the screen it seems the corporation has finally taken note.

  After a bit of a hiccup yesterday, when Jack herself broke the story a day earlier than the press embargo, the

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• Great British Menu 2020: which chefs from London restaurants are taking part?

  

  Are you ready for nine delicious weeks in front of the TV with BBC2’s Great British Menu? To whet your appetite, here’s a round-up of the London chefs involved in this year’s children-literature-themed competition, the British regions they’re representing, and the restaurants where you can try their food.

• Ready Steady Cook is coming back, with Rylan as host and London chefs among the line-up

  

  Almost a decade after its last episode aired, TV cookery show Ready Steady Cook is coming back.

  The BBC this week announced it'll be broadcasting a new series on BBC One Daytime in 2020, hosted by Celebrity MasterChef finalist Rylan Clark-Neal.

  They've also published a list of chefs taking part in the new series, two of which have London restaurants.

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