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Sourdough Sophia is heading to Highgate for her next bakery

Information: 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

Information: 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

Information: 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

Information: 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

Information: 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...

Tamila's next destination is King's Cross

Information: 09 January 2025

8/1/25 - Updated with full opening details. The casual rotis and curries restaurant Tamila (from the people behind the Tamil Prince and Tamil Crown) first opened in Battersea late last year, but...

Alba restaurant aims to bring a taste of Amalfi to Knightsbridge

Information: 09 January 2025

Updated 9/1/25 with new opening date and photos Just in case you were thinking that London may have just reached Italian restaurant saturation, a new restaurant is banking on the fact that the...

Michelin adds a whopping 16 new London restaurants to its guide ahead of the star reveal

Information: 08 January 2025

Updated 9/1/25 with January's openings Every month the inspectors at Michelin hand-pick a few new restaurants to add to their UK and Ireland guide. That doesn't mean the same as getting a star, but...

Ivan Ramen is back in London with a residency at The Ned

Information: 08 January 2025

A year after his longish residency in Islington won him legions of London fans, top ramen chef Ivan Orkin is back in town with another residency. This time he's heading into the City with a...

Gura Gura team to open casual Indian Oorja on Shaftesbury Avenue

Information: 08 January 2025

Indian restaurateur Gobind Chona's first London restaurant Gura Gura must have been a hit because he's getting ready to open his second quite close by. Oorja is opening on Shaftesbury Avenue (next to...

Locanda Locatelli has closed

Information: 04 January 2025

Although the news was first previewed in an article on Michelin-star closures in the Times back in September, it was still a shock to read late on Friday that Georgio Locatelli's Locanda Locatelli...

Ukrainian restaurant Tatar Bunar is coming to Shoreditch

Information: 03 January 2025

Two Ukrainian restaurateurs, Alex Cooper and Anna Andriienko, are getting ready to open their first London restaurant, Tatar Bunar, in Shoreditch. The duo have multiple restaurants in Ukraine and...

Swirl is Leyton's new must-try wine bar

Information: 02 January 2025

Amid all the festive craziness pre-Christmas, a new wine bar opened its doors for the first time in E10. Swirl is a new bar that sees three local entrepreneurs joining forces. Arch Deli owner...

Zima head to Notting Hill with their caviar and dumplings

Information: 02 January 2025

Almost a decade after launching their Russian street food restaurant in Soho, the team behind Zima have now opened a second restaurant, this time in Notting Hill. In December, they took over the old...

The Dark Horse in Camden sees Le Bab running a pub

Information: 02 January 2025

The Farrier in Camden closed late last year, but it hasn't taken long for another new pub to spring up in its place. The Dark Horse takes over the site in the old Camden stable area and also happens to...

St Pancras Brasserie is launching Kitchen Bar, a new chef's counter space

Information: 02 January 2025

The St Pancras Brasserie, and its in-station Champagne terrace, has been a mainstay of St Pancras (in a few different forms) for nearly as long as we can remember. It's had a few renovations along...

Breadstall takes its pizzas inside with a restaurant in Soho

Information: 02 January 2025

2/1/25 - updated with the opening date For years, Sebastian Vince's Breadstall has been one of the most popular pizza places in Battersea and he's spent all that time operating out of a (very big)...

Alfonsina is a South American fusion restaurant coming to Smithfield

Information: 02 January 2025

2/1/25 - updated with the opening date If a restaurant takes as its influence the places a chef has lived and worked in, then in the case of chef Ricardo Younis Moreno you can expect a lively mix of...

When are the Michelin 2025 stars being announced for London, the UK and Ireland?

Information: 01 January 2025

It's nearly time for the main restaurant awards of the season to be announced. Find out when the 2025 Michelin stars for London and the UK are being announced - and what to expect.

Our most read news stories of 2024

Information: 31 December 2024

As the year comes to a close, we've gone back and crunched the numbers to find out precisely which were the news stories that you all wanted to read on Hot Dinners in 2024.

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