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The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2015 - the full list

Information: 02 June 2015

Hot Dinners takes a closer look at the top ten restaurants from the 2015 World's 50 Best Restaurants List to find out what's so great about them.

English wine, fresh-landed seafood and Michelin fare: our weekender guide to Sussex

Information: 26 May 2015

Great English wines, fresh seafood and Michelin-star restaurant - Sussex is a great place for a foodie weekend away

London Wine Week's best food events

Information: 15 May 2015

Hot Dinners picks the best food events happening during 2015's London Wine Week.

Eating out in Ireland East and West

Information: 21 April 2015

Guinness, soda bread, buttermilk scones and smoked salmon - and that's just the pub food. We take a trip to Ireland to try out some classic restaurants and new openings

London's best restaurants with chef's tables

Information: 20 April 2015

Do you want to get up close and personal with chefs when they're cooking your meal? Or perhaps just enjoy a window into the kitchen where you can watch all the hard work that goes into creating your meal? We round up some of the best chef's tables in London.

Weekend bites: Hampshire

Information: 15 April 2015

Vineyards, trout fishing, buffalo farms - it's a foodie paradise in Hampshire and very handy for an overnight trip from London

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.