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The end of summer is upon us - but there's still time and just enough sun for a few more outdoor pop ups. The first one we have news of today is the welcome reappearance of the Cloudy Bay Shack. This is...

[Updated 12/9/12 with opening date and more menu details] Big news from the team behind Terroirs, Brawn and Soif - Hot Dinners hears that their next restaurant will be taking over the Green Man &...

Burgers have had it good for a while, but there's a new trend in town that's rivalling them for new openings. Restaurants focused on chicken have been steadily increasing in popularity, although...

[Updated 12/9/12 - All the restaurants are now open for soft launch - with 50% off food till Saturday evening] Come September, City workers will have an absolutely massive new food and drink venue...

Hot Dinners popped down (or rather up) this morning to join some of the industry’s top chefs and restaurateurs at the newly opened Duck and Waffle restaurant on the vertigo-inducing 40th floor of...

Burger Breakout was a success at its one-day pop-up event at St Chad's Place earlier this Summer. Now the man behind it, Dave Aherne (aka Cork Gourmet Guy) is joining up with the Old Crown pub on...

The prestigious Restaurant & Bar Design Awards were held in town last night and out of 620 entries from over 60 countries, London did pretty damned well when it came to winners. City bar The Drift...

Want to know what the perfect environment for tasting whisky is? Well, whisky maker Singleton is joining forces with Mark Hix and others and launching a free two-day food and whisky tasting pop-up...

Covent Garden's Opera Quarter continues its food boom with another new restaurant opening up this month. Condesa is a tapas bar opening on Maiden Lane later this month from the people behind Barrio...

Like so many other people, we freely admit to being glued to the screens during The Great British Bake Off, and when we met Mary Berry in person last year we totally lost it and became gibbering fan...

Already a dab hand at pop ups, having recently completed a long residency in Covent Garden (followed by a permanent place there), Canteen are now producing the ultimate canteen, a transport cafe in...

Danish cuisine couldn't be more of the moment, so you should be excited about the prospect of a special week-long pop up from Denmark heading London's way. The Danish Bar will be on New Oxford...

Food and Travel magazine's inaugural awards took place last night, with the best in the industry there to pick up their gongs. No real surprises here, with the Ledbury and Dabbous getting awards and...

In keeping with our breakfast-themed newsletter this week (didn't get it - sign up here) we loved the idea behind Sunday Service - a new pop-up by Le Petit Paris. They'll be dishing up breakfasts at...

Update 3/9/12 - South Place is now open, with a 50% off food offer for the first week. See them on twitter.com/southplacehotel for more details. Hard on the heels of the opening of Sushisamba and...

Last year they brought us camel ice cream and exploding cakes - and this November the Experimental Food Society Spectacular is back for more mind-bending tricks with food. The exhibition will take...

For a city that's full of some of the best museums and tourist attractions, it can be surprisingly hard to find good places to eat near London's tourist traps. So, it's always good to hear about...

[Updated 31/8 with more booking details and pricing] There's been a huge amount of speculation as to when British chef April Bloomfield will make a return visit to these shores. Originally from...

Although a stream of new gastropub openings have recently revitalised eating out in Islington, decent restaurants are still relatively few and far between. Which makes the opening of Assiette...

If you've been following Hot Dinners since we started (and if you haven't, why not?!) it'll be pretty self-evident that the London restaurant world is going through one hell of a growth spurt. For...