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Almost alfresco - our pick of London's restaurants with covered courtyards and conservatories

Information: 07 March 2015

Here’s our list of restaurants with retractable roofs, much like Wimbledon, as well as covered courtyards and conservatories.

Souped-up seafront dining: we check out The Salt Room Restaurant in Brighton

Information: 24 February 2015

Brighton gets itself a hot new seafront restaurant where the menu is as thoughtful as the view is beautiful.

The best restaurants for London Fashion Week 2015

Information: 18 February 2015

Hot Dinners picks out where to eat and drink for London Fashion Week (20-24 February 2015).

Where to eat pancakes in London for Shrove Tuesday and all year round

Information: 16 February 2015

We round up some of the more interesting places to eat pancakes in London on either Pancake Day or any of the other 364 days of the year.

Anti-Valentines: where to go in London on Valentine's Night if you're single

Information: 31 January 2015

Does a little bit of you die inside every time someone mentions Valentine's Day? Maybe the very idea of eating in a restaurant populated entirely with other couples sounds like something only a crazy person would do? Or maybe, you're just not given to PDA and would prefer to go out for a romantic meal...

The best new breakfasts in London

Information: 25 January 2015

Whether you're looking for somewhere to have a morning meeting or you need to undo the work of the night before, here are some new places offering a very decent London brekkie..

Loved up or lovelorn? Where to eat in London on Valentine's Day

Information: 20 January 2015

Music isn't the food of love, a good meal out is. Here's our pick of where to eat out whether you're loved up or left out on St Valentine's Day...

Winter Warmers

Information: 06 January 2015

There are several ways to approach the New Year when it comes to eating out. If, filled with self-loathing over your calorific intake over the festive period, you want to spend January in some sort of penitential period of denial, then that's fine. If however you feel, as we do, that simply the...

Hot Dinners Awards - the best of 2014's eating out

Information: 09 December 2014

It's been a year of slurping ramen, sipping Martinis and going retro with some rather good grills. Presenting Hot Dinners' 2014 awards for the London restaurant scene.

Eating, shopping and drinking over Christmas in London is all wrapped up on Hot Dinners

Information: 02 December 2014

From food and wine Christmas shopping, to interesting places to have your Christmas party, Hot Dinners has the festive season in London all wrapped up for you.

Where to book your office Christmas party in London 2014

Information: 09 November 2014

Everywhere else will tell you where to find trad turkey affairs, but if you want to impress your colleagues (and your boss) here are some less obvious places to party this year.

London's best new Private Dining rooms in 2014

Information: 31 October 2014

Here’s our pick of 10 new private dining rooms in London you ought to have on your radar in the run up to Christmas.

Countryside chic in Surrey - we check out Bel & The Dragon in Churt

Information: 14 October 2014

A duo best known for once owning The Groucho have been hard at work building a mini empire of Bel & The Dragon inns in the country. We went to try one of them out.

The best of Chocolate Week 2014

Information: 13 October 2014

Chocolate Week 2014 runs from 13-19 October. Here's where to satisfy your sweet tooth around London over the coming days

London Cocktail Week - our guide to the 2014 drink festival

Information: 06 October 2014

London Cocktail Week 2014 kicks off today (Monday 6 October), and if you’re looking for the best places to make use of your £10 wristband – read on. Here are our top picks for the week ahead…

Michelin starred restaurants in London for 2015

Information: 25 September 2014

The results are in! Here are London's new Michelin stars for 2015.

New York take 2 - we check out New York's new restaurants and bars

Information: 16 September 2014

Yes, you've spotted it. This was our second trip to New York in as many months. On our last trip, which you can read here, we visited some of the city's more established restaurants, but this time around we had our eyes and stomachs set firmly on the new. Turns out September is the perfect time to...

Hot picks: London's key restaurant openings for Autumn 2014

Information: 11 September 2014

Our comprehensive Coming Soon section is updated on a daily basis every time we hear the tiniest hint of a new, interesting restaurant opening in London. Right now there are 50 places we're covering that are due to open by the end of the year. But which of those are the really big ones worth...

8 days, 7 nights, 6 ports and 4 countries - on the high seas with Atul Kochhar and P&O Cruises

Information: 27 August 2014

We've all seen the envy-making instagrams and tweets of glorious produce in foreign food markets and cafe tables perched on some impossibly pretty beach. So the idea of getting to do all of that round the Med, whilst someone else sorts out the travel, sounded pretty good to us. And that's the...