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Gordon Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen launches Saturday street food sessions

Information: 24 September 2014

Gordon's Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen is launching a new showcase of East London food. The idea is that traders takeover the bar at the One New Change restaurant every Saturday, with bespoke...

Imperial War Museum relaunches with Peyton Events

Information: 24 September 2014

Hot Dinners was in attendance at the Imperial War Museum last night where Oliver Peyton was hosting a showcase of both the museum's facelift and his events company Peyton Events. The museum opened...

AA Hospitality Awards 2014

Information: 23 September 2014

The restaurant awards season is well and truly underway and last night it was the turn of the AA Hospitality Awards. The event sees the AA award a mixture of gongs for both hotels and restaurants,...

Young and Foodish rounds off the week with DeliSundays

Information: 23 September 2014

24/09/14 - updated with a link to the tickets page. In a venture that started up with the incredibly popular Burger Monday, taking in SpagWednesday, FryFriday and more along the way, Young and...

The new faces of London food at Kerb

Information: 22 September 2014

Part of the Urban Food Fortnight (12-28th September), last week's The New Faces of London Food ticked all the boxes for a fantastic street food bonanza. Hosted by KERB at The Paperworks in Elephant...

The Bowler opens Street Food Kitchen at the Horse and Groom

Information: 22 September 2014

Meatball purveyors The Bowler were one of the earlier street trucks to help kick off London's currant vibrant street food scene. Now they're taking their meatballs to the newly refurbished Horse and...

Four to Eight brings Italian small dishes to Covent Garden's Catherine Street

Information: 22 September 2014

Opening on Catherine Street in Covent Garden next week is Italian restaurant Four To Eight. And they've got an interesting team on board. Executive chef is Andrew Lasseter who worked at Circus and...

Ice cream goblets, luxe burgers, pizza pop-ups and more stuff we liked this week

Information: 21 September 2014

Our latest run-down of what we've been up to this week, picking the best from our posts on Twitter and Instagram. This week - we take in two Test Drives (from Corbin & King and Marcus Wareing) and...

Restaurants in the press: 15-21 September 2014

Information: 21 September 2014

The latest in a regular series where we gather together all the food, restaurant and chef related articles we've found interesting this week. This week - songbirds, negative reviews, airline food...

Piers Adam and Scott Hallsworth team up for Ramusake on the Old Brompton Road

Information: 19 September 2014

Residents of Kensington and Chelsea will no longer have to bother having to head across town to East London if club owner Piers Adam has his way. Adam (Whisky Mist and Mahiki) has teamed up with...

Greenwich Kitchen wine-led restaurant opening on Peninsula Square

Information: 19 September 2014

Looking for somewhere other than the huge chain restaurant to eat at when you go to the O2? We may have the answer. Greenwich Kitchen is a new all-day restaurant coming to North Greenwich's...

Corbin and King reveal plans for The Colony Grill Room at The Beaumont

Information: 18 September 2014

Updated 18/9/14 with opening date, soft launch details and images We've written previously about the upcoming opening of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin's first hotel, The Beaumont in Mayfair. The...

Novikov launches huge disco ball cocktail

Information: 18 September 2014

Looking for a drink that announces to the rest of the bar that you are In The House? Well this showpiece of Novikov's new disco cocktail menu certainly fits the bill. Called the "Don't Stop ‘til You...

St John Bakery coming to Selfridges

Information: 18 September 2014

If you're a West London fan of the St John Bakery custard doughnuts but can't make it across to Maltby Street as much as you'd like - then there's another option available. The St John Bakery has...

Bone Daddies Kensington brings ramen and hirata buns to Whole Foods Kensington

Information: 17 September 2014

Bone Daddies is expanding. The ramen restaurants are adding a third site to their portfolio, opening in Whole Foods Kensington in November. Following on from Bone Daddies and Flesh & Buns, Bone...

The Cornwall Project wins the 2014 Scotch Egg Challenge

Information: 17 September 2014

Eating 17 scotch eggs in a single sitting isn't something we ever thought we'd end up doing when we first started Hot Dinners. But last night we were one of the judges at the annual Scotch Egg...

L'Amorosa opens in Ravenscourt Park run by former Zafferano Head Chef

Information: 16 September 2014

Having quietly opened its doors in West London, we predict that L'Amorosa is going to get a lot busier over the coming weeks when word gets out about this neighbourhood gem. Key to that is who's in...

Quo Vadis opens for Sunday lunch with a pudding-focused menu

Information: 15 September 2014

Here's a date for your diaries. From Sunday 5th October Quo Vadis will be opening for lunch on Sundays. They'll be putting on a full a la carte menu, with some additional Sunday dishes. But the real...

NYC bites, Mission, burgers and more - stuff we've liked this week

Information: 14 September 2014

Our latest run-down of what we've been up to this week, picking the best from our posts on Twitter and Instagram. This week - a taster of New York, a very fine London burger, MEATbook and more...