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We can't honestly think of a better way to start the week - sitting down with Yotam Ottolenghi at a special brunch to mark the launch of his latest cookbook. NOPI, written together with his...

Updated 7/9/15 with opening date and soft launch details Marylebone is getting a rather large new Italian restaurant and it sounds like it'll be fun. Bernardi’s is set to open on a corner site by...

For the second year running, The Five Star Burger event is bringing together five big names in aid of Action Against Hunger for a pretty special burger. Launched by Tom Hunt of the newly opened Poco...

It's International Bacon Day (Saturday 5th September). Which is as good a reason as any to try out any of the following: 1. Make your own None of that shop bought stuff - head to Cannon and Cannon's Meat...

Updated 5/9/15 with extended opening details Kensington Place has recently had a bit of a refurb and now they're adding something new - a pop up chippy. The food, as befits its location, is...

If a normal sized steak just isn't doing it for you - behold the Tomahawk special that's just gone on the menu at the new Meat and Shake in Ealing. It's part of their a new smokehouse menu and is...

03/09/15 - updated with soft launch dates After a much-anticipated wait, Tim Anderson has announced the opening of Nanban, his first restaurant in Brixton. Situated on Coldharbour Lane, Nanban...

It's the twentieth anniversary of Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck so, after taking a bit of a holiday in Melbourne, he's back in Bray and getting ready to relaunch the restaurant. Lots more information is being...

It's au revoir to the Parisian brigade of Inaki Aizpitarte and his partners and bonjour to a new team at the restaurant formerly known as Le Chabanais. The Mayfair spot is now being renamed as 8...

The roving pizza popup set up by Giorgio Locatelli with his wife Plaxy, which was in Marylebone for a three week stint last September, is once more on the move. This time the Michelin-starred chef is...

Should you be planning on staying in London this weekend - here are some food and drink shenanigans to keep you busy over the coming days... 28-30th August: The Plough on Homerton High St is...

There's been a lot of talk - on social media and off - about staff shortages in the London restaurant world. So it's hats off to restaurateurs (and hoteliers) Corbin and King who have decided to...

Can you believe that Selfridges' iconic Brass Rail restaurant has beens serving salt beef for almost 50 years? The store restaurant celebrates its 50th birthday next year and reopens tomorrow after a...

Yes, my patty loving friends - today is your day - National Burger Day. Over at their official website find details of the hundreds of places all over the UK offering a 20% discount today. And below...

It's already one of the best bars in London (and currently top of the World's 50 Best Bars list) but now Artesian at The Langham looks like it now has a bar snack menu to match its creative...

Flora Indica has not one. but two cocktail bars alongside a restaurant that is aiming to have British/Indian food with a botanical influence.  The Head Chef, Sameer Taneja, has worked at Benares -...

If you were tempted by blogger Chris Pople's elegiac account of eating grouse at Racine last year, only to have your hopes at replicating that meal dashed when chef Henry Harris decided to close the...

5/915 - Updated with soft launch details City folk looking for a new destination for morning meetings can stop searching now. We've got the news on Anna Hansen's new place and it sounds like a...

  The Good Food Guide turns 65 this year and for this year's publication they've been looking back in time at some of the establishments that have spent a long time on that list. Top of the pile is...

Updated 7/9/15 with soft launch details and opening date We love a good entrepreneurial story here at Hot Dinners and the tale behind a new Vietnamese barbecue restaurant opening around the back of...