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New Kentucky Burger hits the bar menu at Hawksmoor Seven Dials

Information: 15 May 2015

New burger alert! This is the new Third Burger being served up in the bar at Hawksmoor Seven Dials. The Kentucky Burger has seen the team at Hawksmoor coat chicken thighs with their own special...

Snaps + Rye launch Fiskefredag Fishy Friday suppers

Information: 14 May 2015

If you're after a seafood start to the weekend from this Friday you can head to Danish restaurant Snaps + Rye where they've just extended their opening hours on Friday evenings for for Fiskefredag –...

Roofnic rooftop bar opens for the summer off Oxford Street

Information: 14 May 2015

We can always tell the weather's getting better by the volume of emails we get about new alfresco spots and rooftop spaces opening up for the summer. But one new one, Roofnic, caught our attention, not least...

The Porridge Cafe is back in Victoria

Information: 14 May 2015

After a stint in Shoreditch, the Porridge Cafe has returned, this time for a month-long pop-up in Victoria. Expect a similar set up to the first pop-up and they're promising summer breakfast...

Hawksmoor Guildhall gets a bit fishy

Information: 13 May 2015

Ever since opening Air Street, which successfully brought fish to Hawksmoor menus in collaboration with Mitch Tonks, the rest of the Hawksmoors have been showing some fishy influences. The latest is...

Joe's Oriental Diner opens at London Field's The Laundry

Information: 13 May 2015

Following on from their successful collaboration with Ben Spalding, London Fields creative hub The Laundry Building has landed another great restaurant and this one's permanent. Officially opening...

Bleecker St Burger return to the South Bank

Information: 13 May 2015

Hot Dinners Exclusive They've had huge success in the new Spitalfields space (just AMAZING burgers every time we've been) and now Bleecker St Burger are returning to the Southbank Centre too, where the...

Preparing for battle - the Slider Decider 2015 shortlist is announced

Information: 12 May 2015

Now this is a pretty impressive line-up. It's everyone who will be competing in this year's Slider Decider - taking place at the Gun on June 4. And what they have planned sounds pretty tempting... Bone...

Clive's Midtown Diner brings American classics to Bloomsbury

Information: 12 May 2015

Opening this month, close to the British Museum is Clive’s Midtown Diner. It's the first restaurant by chef Toby Aldenhoven who previously worked for Will Ricker at Bodega Negra and Casa Negra. Toby...

Heaven for bacon enthusiasts: we try Cannon & Cannon’s new Meat School

Information: 12 May 2015

If hands-on butchery, charcuterie making classes and meat and beer tastings sound like your kind of thing, then Cannon & Cannon’s newly-launched ‘Meat School’ is just the place for you. Meat School...

Cereal Killer Cafe is coming to Camden

Information: 11 May 2015

They might have come under some rather unfair press scutiny when they opened their first venue (pictured above), but there's no denying Cereal Killer Cafe's success. The first one still has queues...

Mark Sargeant to open Morden & Lea brasserie on Wardour Street

Information: 11 May 2015

2015 is proving to be a busy old year for Mark Sargeant. Just weeks after his appointment as Chef Director at The Strand Dining Rooms was announced, comes news that the chef and restaurateur is in...

Meatballs for Soho - Balls and Company is the latest ultra-focused restaurant

Information: 09 May 2015

Exclusive We've had burgers & lobsters, chicken & steak, cereal, porridge and more - now it's the turn of the humble meatball to get a restaurant all of its own. Something similar has gone down very...

Nuno Mendes to open Portuguese restaurant Taberna do Mercado in Old Spitalfields Market

Information: 09 May 2015

Updated 13/5/16 with lunch booking details. Plus - read our Test Drive of Taberna Do Mercado. There'd been whisperings on the London grapevine for a few weeks that Chiltern Firehouse's Executive...

The Black Penny coffee house opening on Great Queen Street

Information: 08 May 2015

There's a new coffee house, The Black Penny, heading to Great Queen Street next week. Billed as "bridging the gap between fast food and gourmet gastronomy" it's a mix between a coffee house and...

The team behind Le Chateaubriand come to London to bring Le Chabanais to Mayfair

Information: 08 May 2015

Updated 26 May - now you can read our full Test Drive of Le Chabanais The opening of Le Chabanais is set to be one of the highlights of the London restaurant year and now more details are being...

Leicester House opens on One Leicester Street site serving French-Vietnamese food

Information: 08 May 2015

Formerly St John Chinatown and then One Leicester Street, now the same space has reopened as Leicester House. Owners Elliott Blum and Mark Cutler run a number of American restaurants under the brand...

Jason Atherton leads a host of restaurants heading for Nova, Victoria

Information: 08 May 2015

We've noticed a very clear trend in the London restaurant scene recently and it's all connected with new developments across town. Before, such places often opened with somewhat generic chains, but...

Shake Shack is coming to Stratford Westfield

Information: 07 May 2015

It had been rumoured for a couple of days and now the news is out - a second Shake Shack is coming to London, to Stratford's Westfield. This will see them follow similar Shake Shack set-ups in malls...

Burger King trials home delivery in London

Information: 07 May 2015

Perhaps Burger King has been looking at the success of other London burger delivery companies like Chosen Bun and Homeburger. Because it's just announced a trial delivery service in London...

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