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MasterChef's Natalie Coleman planning East End restaurant

Information: 02 December 2013

Hard on the heels of winning this year's MasterChef, popular winner Natalie Coleman is out and about at the moment promoting the show's new book. Hot Dinners bumped into her on her rounds to talk...

Churchill's Port House pops up on Greek Street

Information: 02 December 2013

If you've been down Greek Street recently and wondered what the Churchill port house is that's popped up at no 26, then let us enlighten you. It's a three floor temporary educational experience and...

Gizzi Erskine hosts a Twisted Christmas at Hawker House

Information: 29 November 2013

What better way to get in the mood for a thoroughly London Christmas than heading over to Hawker House who'll be hosting Gizzi Erskine's #TwistedChristmas on 14 December. Traders already confirmed...

Green's puts caviar back on the menu at Duke Street

Information: 28 November 2013

Is this a sign of London's improving fortunes? Three years after it was taken off the menu due to customers feeling the pinch, caviar is now back at Green's Restaurant & Oyster Bar. It was...

Experimental Group to Open Covent Garden Wine Bar - Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels

Information: 28 November 2013

Giving us yet another reason to head to Covent Garden, the people behind the Experimental Cocktail Club will open their next London venue towards the end of the year called Compagnie des Vins...

Pork restaurant Blackfoot is coming to Exmouth Market

Information: 28 November 2013

(Updated 28/11 with soft launch details) A new restaurant is coming to Exmouth Market, celebrating all things piggy. Blackfoot is from Tom Ward and Allegra McEvedy, both previously at Leon and is...

Mark Hix launches pop-up Mark's Bar in Selfridges

Information: 27 November 2013

Mark Hix already has a "Hix" restaurant on the ground floor of Selfridges but he's just added a second pop-up for anyone browsing the store's just-launched men's shoe department. It's much, much...

Forget the cronut - Selfridges' biskie is the new sweet treat in town

Information: 26 November 2013

We've had the cronut, the doissant, even the controversial duffin - now Selfridges on Oxford Street wants in on the action and is launching the biskie. The biskie is a cookie/cake/biscuit combo...

Heathrow's Giraffe one of the world's best airport restaurants?

Information: 26 November 2013

American website Daily Meal has just released its list of the Top 35 airport restaurants around the world. We thought it might make interesting reading, particularly given the news a few weeks ago...

Real British hospitality - Russell Norman on his plans for the Ape & Bird pub on Shaftesbury Avenue

Information: 24 November 2013

(2/12 - Update - we've now been to the Ape and Bird - check out our Test Drive.) They brought us the joys of cicheti and Negronis when they introduced Londoners to the joys of a Venetian bàcaro with...

Hackney restaurant Raw Duck to be demolished

Information: 23 November 2013

They only opened their doors this summer but this weekend Hackney restaurant Raw Duck (an offshoot of Ducksoup in Soho) is facing imminent demolition. Seems that the nearby excavation for...

Source restaurant opens at Ransome's Dock

Information: 22 November 2013

(Updated 22/11 with soft launch details) Ever since the restaurant at Ransome's Dock closed this summer, Battersea residents have been waiting to find out who'll take over. Well Hot Dinners has the...

NYC's Blue Smoke chef heads to London to open Big Easy Covent Garden on Maiden Lane

Information: 21 November 2013

London is about to get another big new BBQ restaurant as Chelsea institution, Big Easy Bar.B.Q & Crabshack gets ready to open a new restaurant in Covent Garden's Maiden Lane early next year. The city's...

Wareing, Roux, Blanc, Caines and more all take part in this year's Mince Pie Project.

Information: 20 November 2013

We realise that quite a few people get a bit bah-humbug at this time of year but here at Hot Dinners, we are very excited about the onset of the Christmas season. And one of the reasons is the...

Clutch guilt-free chicken shop opens off Columbia Road

Information: 19 November 2013

Seems like the growth of chicken restaurants in London isn't slowing any time soon. Now a new one is destined to open just off Columbia Road before Christmas. Clutch bills itself as a guilt-free...

Rita's Dining returns in glory to Hackney

Information: 19 November 2013

When Rita's Bar and dining landed in Dalston last year, it was an instant hit - with its frozen margaritas (ooh, we just got that...) and the food, particularly the Southern Fried Chicken Roll and...

Wright Bros Spitalfields to open in Old Spitalfields Market

Information: 18 November 2013

We're very fond of Wright Bros Soho, so the news that they're about to take on their most ambitious restaurant to date came as music to our ears. And what a venture. They're taking over what was...

Giles Coren loves more London restaurants than provincial ones

Information: 18 November 2013

If you were off Twitter over the weekend, you may have missed the latest storm created by the Times restaurant critic Giles Coren. So what has Giles done this time you may be wondering. Has he...

Tommi's Burger Joint's monthly residency in Primrose Hill

Information: 15 November 2013

Updated 15/11/13 with new burger details Burger lovers in Primrose Hill won't have to go too far for their fix when Tommi's opens a residency at the Princess of Wales next month. The ongoing monthly...

Boopshi's schnitzel and spritz restaurant to open on Windmill Street

Information: 15 November 2013

Updated 15/11/13 with soft launch details It's all happening over in Fitzrovia as we get the exclusive on another place opening on Windmill Street this Autumn. Just down the road from Drakes...

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