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Moving into February, Gordon Ramsay goes big (and high) with a number of restaurants inside the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper, Patrick Powell does pub food, The Berkeley gets a fancy new restaurant and lots more. 

Far from being all doom and gloom, our January proved to be a strong start to 2025 with moreish bar snacks, stellar sushi and a very cleverly done egg. 

London restaurants are getting ready to welcome the Year of the Snake on 29 January. We pick out some of the best dishes and menus for you to try during this year's Lunar New Year celebrations. 

Harneet Baweja founder of Gunpowder, Empire Empire and Moi et Toi shares his favourite food and drink spots in St James.

When the weather’s absolutely freezing, one way of warming things up that doesn’t involve crippling yourself with a sky-high energy bill is from the inside out. Step forward some of London’s hottest dishes; fired up with all the chillies to bring the heat.

Chef Lasse Petersen of Lulu's and Llewelyn’s, shares his favourite food and drink spots up where he lives up in Leytonstone.

The co-founder of Sune in Hackney, Honey Spencer, shares her favourite London Fields restaurants and bars with us. 

We've come up with a list of places in London that will warm the very cockles of your heart, not to mention your extremities.

We got creative to find you ways of beating the Guinness shortage in London's restaurants and pubs

We've picked out the best restaurants in Kensington. From top Michelin-starred restaurants to glittzy fare from Big Mamma, here are the best places to eat out in the area.

As another year gets underway, it's time to take a look forward to the most interesting new restaurants opening in London over the next twelve months. 

At the end of the year, besides all the turkey and Christmas chocolates (and there were a LOT of both of those) we managed to visit some excellent new places, from a top new Mayfair Sardinian restaurant to a very promising new pub in Islington. 

The votes have been counted so, following our own best new opening of 2024, here's who you think came top...

If the cold London winter is getting you down, then a trip to Brazil courtesy of new Mayfair restaurant Maroto could be just the antidote.

Sushi master and restaurateur Endo Katzutoshi has agreed to share his favourite food and drink places from where he lives in Ealing with Hot Dinners readers.

  The unveiling of a fabulously OTT new hotel in Paris gave us the perfect reason to jump on the Eurostar and head across to France for a quick Parisian minibreak. Here's where we stayed, ate and drank during our stay. 

It's that time of the year when we look back at all the meals (and drinks) of the year and pick our favourites. Here's our full rundown of the places, dishes and drinks we thought were really remarkable in 2024.

We're over halfway through the year, so that means it's time for our round-up of the best openings of the year to date...