The Knave of Clubs brings in chef Patrick Powell for this Shoreditch pub revival

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16 January 2025
We hinted in our 2025 preview feature that former Midland Grand and Allegra chef Patrick Powell had some interesting projects on the horizon for this year. Now we're in a position to be able to tell...

Keeping track of the restaurants that have closed in London

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15 January 2025
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...

Bar Valette in Shoreditch is the next opening from The Clove Club's Isaac McHale

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15 January 2025
Updated 15/1/25 with opening date A few weeks back, Isaac McHale parted ways with the other founders of The Clove Club, Johnny Smith and Daniel Willis, with each side talking about the promise of...

Kuro Bagels is taking over from Kuro Eatery in Notting Hill

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15 January 2025
A few years back, the boutique group that is KURO in Notting Hill which has a coffee shop and bakery, opened its all-day diner called Kuro Eatery. It seemed a popular enough place, but clearly the...

Get monogrammed croissants at the Louis Vuitton x Murakami pop up in Soho

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15 January 2025
Two years after they launched a pop-up with Japanese artist Kusama at Harrods with its own patisserie counter, Louis Vuitton are back at it again. They've just opened a pop-up in Soho to celebrate...

Duck and Rice is opening a new place in Battersea on its tenth anniversary

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15 January 2025
It's been almost 10 years since Alan Yau took over a Soho pub and transformed it into Duck and Rice. A decade on, it seems it's time to expand as it's the latest place to find itself making its way to...

Pho has a free broth-dispending billboard at Victoria station this week

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14 January 2025
You know we're suckers for a clever advertising campaign here at Hot Dinners and we rather like the sound of the interactive billboard that Pho have set up in central London for the next two days. The...

Björn Frantzén parts ways with Harrods as The Grill on Fifth takes over

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14 January 2025
Just over two years after the glitzy opening of Björn Frantzén's much-vaunted restaurant at Harrods, the Swedish chef has very quietly closed the doors on that partnership. The announcement was made on...

Dough Hands pizzas set up residency inside Nunhead's The Old Nun's Head

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13 January 2025
  You might have caught them as they've been popping up all over London before settling down for a residency in Hackney's Spurstowe Arms. Now Dough Hands is heading south for a second residency, this...

Rick Stein celebrates 50 years as a restaurateur with 1975 menu prices

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13 January 2025
In today's febrile restaurant scene, most restaurateurs would be congratulating themselves for having successfully reached the end of one year. So it's properly impressive for anyone to reach the...

Marta pizzeria in Chelsea is all about thin Roman-style pizzas

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13 January 2025
In the run-up to the end of last year, we were so focused on the recent openings of Alley Cats and Zia Lucia in Chelsea that we missed another very promising new Chelsea pizza opening, called Marta.  It...

Sourdough Sophia is heading to Highgate for her next bakery

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13 January 2025
Having started during lockdown in Crouch End and now with a fully fledged bakery there and in Islington, the North London baker Sophia Handschuh and her husband Jesse Sutton-jones are gearing up to...

De Beauvoir's hot new cafe is Leigh's

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10 January 2025
Islington's run of interesting openings continues this year with the arrival of Leigh's in De Beauvoir. The duo behind it are Cordon Bleu-trained chefs Melanie Clarke and McKenzie Amaral who have...

The Great Indian is Archway's new Indian gastropub

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10 January 2025
Londoners love their pubs and love a good Indian, so the growth of Indian-based pubs in the City isn't altogether surprising. Arriving off the back of the huge success of The Tamil Crown and Prince comes...

West African restaurant Shakara arrives in Marylebone

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10 January 2025
New West African restaurant Shakara opened quietly just before Christmas, but it has some impressive names behind the scenes. In the kitchen is Victor Okunowo, previously from Talking Drum and a...

Roji chefs to launch new Japanese izakaya Himi in Carnaby

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10 January 2025
10/1/24 - Updated with the opening date For the last two years, chefs Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa have been running omakase restaurant Roji in Mayfair (which we thought was excellent). Now Roji...
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