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At new restaurant Pardeh in Bethnal Green everything starts with Persian hospitality

Information: 04 September 2026

Where one door closes, another opens. And as chef Gabriel Waterhouse prepares to resurrect his former Water House Project restaurant in another Bethnal Green space, we already know what's taking...

Da Pino is taking over from Bianca's in Stoke Newington, adding a new Puglian touch

Information: 04 September 2026

We've seen a lot of restaurants pivoting into something new recently, and a subset of that is the team change. That's when the restaurant changes, but some of the original team stay on to run its...

The Miracle team are bringing an immersive Halloween bar to Covent Garden

Information: 04 September 2026

Every year, a big festive pop-up Miracle at Henrietta, becomes one of the hottest tickets of the season. It sees a bar decked out in what can only be described as an explosion of Christmas...

Homeboy are launching a Guinness afternoon tea where almost everything on the menu features Guinness

Information: 03 September 2026

Given London's ongoing obsession with Guinness, it was only a matter of time before someone thought about combining that with the city's biggest food-based attraction for tourists, afternoon tea...

Trying out Fortnum's Cellar Sessions for the launch of the store's new wine range

Information: 03 September 2026

A new series of tutored wine tastings has just begun at Fortnum & Mason's Piccadilly store. We signed up to one of their Cellar Sessions to see what it was all about.

Din Tai Fung are opening in King's Cross, with an eye on Soho too

Information: 03 September 2026

Updated 3/9/26 with opening date We only recently wrote about Dishoom lining up another opening on the South Bank before its latest in London Bridge had even opened the doors, and now it looks like...

Chef Will Devlin takes to the rooftop to open Nettle at The Conduit

Information: 02 September 2026

2/9/26 - updated with the opening date Just a few weeks ago, chef Will Devlin opened the London outpost of his restaurant Birchwood at The Conduit in Covent Garden. But that was only part of his...

Help judge London's best bread and butter champions at The Bread & Butter-Off 2026

Information: 02 September 2026

It's increasingly becoming one of the ways in which a restaurant can really showcase the kitchen's creativity and now there's a special event devoted to the bread course. This October, eight London...

Manna have found a standalone home for their smash burgers in Marylebone

Information: 02 September 2026

It really is the time to launch a new burger bar, it seems. Last week we had a new Bleecker in Camden. This week Dumbo is coming to Soho. And now it's the turn of Manna. Up until now, Manna have...

Dishoom's next south London restaurant is going to be on the South Bank

Information: 01 September 2026

We're still waiting for the opening date for the new Dishoom close to Borough Market, but now it turns out they already have another opening lined up, and it's not too far away. First reported by...

They make some of London's best tacos, but Sonora Taqueria in Stoke Newington are closing down

Information: 01 September 2026

We've been writing a lot about new restaurants at the moment, but we're also still seeing a lot of closures, and news has just broken about a big one in Stoke Newington. A restaurant that's behind...

Now London is getting a second tiramisu shop, with Giuseppe's Tiramisu opening in Shoreditch

Information: 01 September 2026

You know how it is. You wait ages for a shop devoted to tiramisu, and then two come along at once. Hard on the heels of Marrone in Soho comes Giuseppe's Tiramisu, which is about to open up at...

Test driving MOR, where Tom Sellers is championing Cornish seafood at the seaside

Information: 01 September 2026

Tom Sellers, together with Tom Anglesea, has taken over the main restaurant at Carbis Bay in Cornwall. It's a room blessed with an amazing view, so we went down to see just what the two chefs have...

New restaurants and bars opening in London this week

Information: 01 September 2026

This week heralds the beginning of the busiest month in the year for new restaurants, and we're starting off strong with one of Autumn's most anticipated new openings.

Keeping track of the restaurants and bars that have closed in London

Information: 01 September 2026

Here at Hot Dinners we mainly focus on the hottest restaurants in town, as well as new openings. But the London restaurant scene is ever-changing and that means some restaurants fall to the wayside. With...

It's poutine and the Premier League for Kensington at new Canadian sports bar LaCage

Information: 31 August 2026

Back in the 1920s, it was built as a branch of Woolworths. Now, a hundred years later, instead of an American retail giant, we've got a Canadian brand taking over the space on Kensington High...

Schofield's, one of Manchester's best bars, is coming to London

Information: 28 August 2026

It's currently in the top 10 of the UK's Top 50 Cocktail Bars (it last topped the list in 2024), and has previously reached no. 59 on the World's 50 Best bars list. Now one of Manchester's best bars...

It's all change at Mayfair's The Twenty Two with their new French restaurant Cafe Twenty Two on the way

Information: 28 August 2026

As regular readers know, 2026 has been the year of the pivot, with a number of restaurants changing focus, cuisine or even the whole proposal. Now another is about to join them with The Twenty Two. Previously,...

Tom Brown and Brad Carter are re-opening Island in a revived Clerkenwell pub

Information: 28 August 2026

28/8/26 - Updated with more details about the move and the opening date Just over a year ago, chefs Brad Carter and Tom Brown teamed up for their upmarket surf-and-turf restaurant Island, opening...

Tofu Vegan pick the Strand for their next restaurant

Information: 27 August 2026

In the five years since they opened their first restaurant in Islington, the plant-based Chinese restaurant group Tofu Vegan has gone from strength to strength. Not only did they manage to turn the...

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