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Vivienne Westwood launches festive offerings at aqua shard

Information: 25 November 2015

Last night, Hot Dinners popped along to The Shard for our first official Christmas party of the season. The do was to launch Vivienne Westwood's Christmas tree at aqua shard, which is part of a...

Jose Pizarro launches "Pata day"

Information: 25 November 2015

This sounds good - Jose Pizarro in Broadgate has just launched a new Saturday menu where the main attraction is a Castillian leg of lamb (pata means hind leg of an animal). That full menu is: Jamón/ Tomate...

Lucky Chip goes permanent with Burgers & Wine in Dalston

Information: 24 November 2015

A Hot Dinners Exclusive Lucky Chip were one of the first wave of burger vans who showed Londoners just what a good burger actually was (it's hard to remember now but a few short years ago in London a...

Oliver Maki bring their contemporary sushi to Soho's Dean Street

Information: 23 November 2015

We're all for great sushi here at Hot Dinners, and by all accounts a new group from the Middle East is bringing some top sushi to this city when they open their first restaurant in London next year. Oliver...

Margot Italian restaurant from Paulo de Tarso and Nicolas Jaouën coming to Covent Garden

Information: 23 November 2015

Many people knew Paulo De Tarso best as the masterly Maitre d’ looking after Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental - one of our personal favourite restaurants in town. And now he's opening his own...

Former Garagistes chef takes over the kitchens at P Franco in Clapton

Information: 23 November 2015

When the much-vaunted Tasmanian restaurant Garagistes announced it was closing in Spring this year, folk down under wondered where the respective members of the talented crew would end up. Co owner...

All-day cafe, bar and kitchen Haunt opens in Stoke Newington

Information: 23 November 2015

It seems that Stoke Newington is where it's all happening at the moment - with news of opening after opening reaching us. The latest quietly opened its doors a couple of weeks ago - Haunt on Stoke...

McDonalds trial their new signature burgers in London - we went to try them out

Information: 20 November 2015

McDonalds are having a go with a new signature range of upmarket burgers and half of the places chosen nationwide to trial it are in London. The three burger collection was put together by the...

MEATliquor heads south to Croydon Boxpark

Information: 20 November 2015

They've recently been opening places like nobody's business (Briston only this weekend, Islington a few weeks back) and now there's news of ANOTHER MEATliquor for London - this time heading south to...

La Cabina late night tapas hits Kingsland Road

Information: 19 November 2015

London is slowly but surely gearing up to the launch of the late night tube. And the arrival of La Cabina in Haggerston is another sign of that. This new basement tapas spot will serve a full tapas menu...

Patty&Bun launches The Residence with chefs from Pitt Cue, Palomar and more

Information: 19 November 2015

There's a new east London residency which looks very interesting indeed. We're already fans of the space that Patty&Bun have created over in London Fields and now they're branching out further with...

Palm Court at the Langham gets a fancy makeover

Information: 19 November 2015

Just in time for Christmas, the Langham's Palm Court has had a pretty extensive going-over with a brand new look. Above you'll see the fancy new room and below just how it looked before. It DOES...

Rubedo brings natural wine bistronomie to Stoke Newington Church Street

Information: 19 November 2015

So while we were excited to bring you news of the opening of Escocesa on Stoke Newington Church Street a week or so ago, seems we'd completely missed another new opening from recent weeks, Rubedo...

Pop-up wine bar Nutkin & Co comes to Haggerston

Information: 19 November 2015

There's still plenty of love for wine bars (which makes us happy) and there's another on the way to Haggerston for a four week stint starting this Friday. It's coming from wine importer Red Squirrel and...

Decatur southern streetfood takes over the kitchens at Pamela in Dalston

Information: 19 November 2015

You may have enjoyed the wares of one of this year's YBF Street Food nominees Decatur at Kerb and Druid Street, but now the business is moving indoors to look after the kitchen at Pamela - the new...

Shackfuyu pops-up in Bermondsey as the original Soho restaurant goes permanent

Information: 18 November 2015

18/11 - updated with re-opening date Once billed as a long-term pop-up, Soho's Shackfuyu (by Bone Daddies) is about to get a lot more long-term as it prepares to become a permanent fixture in Soho...

M Restaurants introduces "choose your own table" booking

Information: 18 November 2015

We often mention where we think the best seats are in our Test Drives, but sometimes just seeing the room makes that decision easier when booking a table at a restaurant. Which is why we quite love...

Claw residency comes to Dalston's Three Compasses for the winter

Information: 17 November 2015

This rather fine looking shellfish dish is the crab burger from Claw. And if just gazing at that photo makes you fancy it half as much as we do right now, you'll be wanting to know that the...

London's restaurant folk do their bit to #supportparis

Information: 16 November 2015

The weekend's terrible events in Paris have spurred an influential group of London's restaurant folk to head across the channel. The movement #SupportParis, has already signed up numerous chefs,...

Oriole cocktail bar is coming to Smithfield Market from the people behind Nightjar

Information: 16 November 2015

Nightjar cocktail bar in Old Street is high up on many best-of lists, including making it to the top three of the World's 50 Best Bars list. So any new opening from them is enough to make us sit up...

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