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It's all go in Putney. Yesterday we reported on Bibo - a new Italian restaurant opening on Upper Richmond Road. And today we have news of another restaurant opening on the same road. Hide & Seed...

A new Italian restaurant, Bibo, is heading to Putney, coming from chef Chris Beverley (previously at Theo Randall at the InterContinental and Chez Bruce) and Rebecca Mascarenhas (who's behind...

As Russell Norman helps to open a pub in the Cotswolds on TV, it's worth remembering that he had a pretty successful pub launch himself late in 2013, with the launch of The Ape & Bird on Shaftesbury...

Updated with revised launch details. Brindisa continues to expand all over London. Having recently gone east with Tramontana Brindisa in Shoreditch, they're now heading south to Brixton for a new...

When it launched late last year, Islington fishmonger and wine bar Prawn on the Lawn was an instant hit with the locals. The space for drinking and eating was a little restricted upstairs, however,...

Whether you gave up trying to get to work this morning, or made it into the office but left your sanity somewhere at the back of the queue to get on to the London Overgound, you might be forgiven...

South Londoners are about to get a new seafood fix when new restaurant Lobster House opens next week. Opening as part of the Point Pleasant development to the east of Wandsworth Park and right by...

We may now be linked to France with a tunnel, but there's no reason to head to Paris when it can come to London. Which is exactly what's happening this Spring when the Ritz Paris’s Bar Hemingway...

After the huge amount of press that a breakout of the norovirus at Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck in 2009 got - it's particularly bad news for Heston that today sees his London restaurant Dinner...

Perfectly timed for the first day after dry January National Pisco Sour Day is, if nothing else, a great reason to go and enjoy one of our favourite drinks around London today. Places doing...

You've got to sit up and take notice when a press release breezily describes a restaurant as 'older than America'. The establishment in question is Wiltons in St James' - a place that began life...

Karam Sethi's had a good time of it recently, with universal acclaim for Gymkhana from both the critics and Hot Dinners readers. For his next task, he's about to reopen his original restaurant,...

Congrats to Battersea's Ben's Canteen which walked away from last night's Sausage Roll Off at the Red Lion in Barnes with the top prize. Chef Chris Bumby won with his all day breakfast roll served...

One of London's institutions closed down for a huge revamp earlier this month. The Wolseley took January off to give itself a considerable spruce up for its tenth anniversary. Now we've found out a...

It's been a very successful seafood restaurant in Rome, but rather than expanding locally, London has been chosen as the location for the second Assunta Madre. The original in the Campo de Fiori...

Push your way through the throng of tourists down in Piccadilly on a Sunday lunchtime and while the rest of the hordes pop into an Angus steakhouse, congratulate yourself for having booked lunch at...

Coming to East London's Broadway Market in March is a new 2 in 1 establishment - butchers by day and restaurant - or "cookshop" - by night. The man behind it is Luca Mathiszig-Lee (from The Eagle...

Central London looks set to get a swanky new restaurant in early summer. You may have spotted that the huge building on Trafalgar Square (the rather marvellously named 1-3 Grand Buildings) as you...

Confirmed by the group today, Alan Yau's Naamyaa cafe is no more. The Thai restaurant opened in Islington last year and was expected to be Alan Yau's next big rollout after Busaba. Despite good to...

23/1/14 - Updated with a preview of the menu. Australian chef Ash Mair, winner of 2011's MasterChef - the Professionals, has confirmed that he's opening an outpost of Spain's Bilbao Berria in London in...