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  A Hot Dinners Exclusive (updated with new pics) Caprice and Richard Caring have been having a pretty good year with the rapturous reception of the revamped Ivy and now they're moving onto a brand new...

Well now, THIS is quite a story. News broke this afternoon that Clare Smyth, currently Chef Patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, is to open her own restaurant, with Ramsay's backing. Smyth has been...

Fish and chips aren't just for Fridays. Stoke Newington based chippy Sutton & Sons is proving such a success (also opening in Boxpark in Shoreditch) they're opening a new site in Islington's Essex...

From pop-up, to permanant site: after two years on the street food and festival scene, Night Tales has found a new home in the heart of London Fields, just down the road from Broadway Market. In the...

Looks like there's a pizza war hotting up on Charing Cross Road. At one end of the road you have newly-opened NY Fold from American pizza champion Bruno DiFabio, and now there's Fornetto setting out...

Updated 1/1015 with soft launch details. A few more details are creeping out about the ever-popular Dishoom, which is returning to central London for its next opening. It's a big site, being over...

First there were banh-mi. Then there were bao. Now there are folds - the latest south east Asian street food trend to hit the streets of London. A new Vietnamese restaurant - aptly titled FOLD -...

This place is quite literally the dogs' bollocks. A Michelin starred restaurant with a sense of humour is opening a new bar - cheekily titled Les Couilles du Chien. Arbutus in Soho is already known for...

Now in its seventh year, the London Restaurant Festival has 350 restaurants taking part across London in partnership with American Express, offering a host of special events and festival menus...

So this is a bit of fun. The Savoy has introduced a Temptation Wheel - a roulette game where the wheel decides what chocolates, desserts or cocktail you go for. It's to showcase the new evening menu at...

Haven't managed to make it into Barrafina yet? You can get a taste of it at all the MEATliquors, MEATmarket and MEATmission with the Barrafina Burger.  The burger mixes unpasteurised Ermesenda cheese...

The original Mangal Ocakbasi is a 25 year old charcoal grill hit in Dalston, often lauded by chefs and an early example of how Londoners are only too happy to queue for some great comfort food. And now...

Twitter was all abuzz with the news that popular seafood restaurant Rex and Mariano was closing. Hot Dinners caught up with Dave Strauss from Goodman restaurants, owners of Rex and Mariano, to find...

Just opened, very much on the QT in Mayfair is House of Crab, a short-term pop-up by James Chase of Chase distillery and Dominic Jacobs - the folk behind The Running Horse pub in Mayfair. This new...

Now that we're officially into Autumn, it's nice to have something to look forward to and the new series of Nordic dinners coming up at Selfridges sounds like just our cup of lingonberry tea. The...

Hungry City folk are about to get a new breakfast and lunchtime option in Leadenhall Court. Yum Som is from Ed Martin, who usually works with his brother Tom on places like the nearby (and VERY...

Newly Bib Gourmanded restaurant Shikumen is getting behind the upcoming State Visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping next month with a little extra something in its dishes. They'll be adding a...

Long-time followers of Hot Dinners will probably know how much we love a good Martini so news that one of the World's 50 best bars was opening an outpost in London with a singular focus on a...

Updated 23/9/15 with soft launch and opening details. Think Lombardy and think Milan: one of the top foodie destinations in Italy - and now coming to Hackney with a new deli, wine bar and restaurant...

"This bacon has been intensively reared and sold in supermarkets". It didn't sound that tasty, and we weren't that keen to try it. On the other hand, organic eggs from hand-reared hens on a Suffolk farm...