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While the British summer attempts fitfully to get into gear, the length of magazine production schedules means that London is currently playing host to a series of Christmas events from companies...

It seems as though not a day dawns without us hearing about some hip new spot opening up in Hackney or Dalston. Today it's the turn of Lardo - a charcuterie/pizza bar at the Arthaus development near...

Tickets go on sale today for the inaugural Maltby St Market lunch. It's been dreamt up to help inspire people on what to make with the product they buy from the market. 'It's an irregular series of...

Founded by Tom Barton and Phil Eles, Honest Burgers is one of the stars of Brixton Village. They have been at the forefront of the current burger craze and a hit with burger lovers since opening early...

Tickets have just gone on sale for a massive 20 day event celebrating international food during the Olympics. Stratford Old Town Hall will be the venue for a series of dinners where every night 80...

Brixton Market has rapidly become a foodie destination south of the river with Brixton Village housing some of the best food in the area. Soon, it's about to get even better with a new fried chicken...

Opened four years ago, the Giaconda Dining room quickly gained plaudits for Paul Merrony's cooking and front of house service from his wife Tracey. It's one of Jay Rayner's favourite London...

Last year's The Long Table in Dalston saw massive queues of excited foodies snaking down Kingsland High Street in the freezing cold, all for some cracking grub. It was for a brief moment, the...

Dalston's Roof Park is the venue for an interesting series of events called Nice to Meet You which combine talk, music and food and are run by Art Wednesday. The talk side of things for the first...

Claudia Roden, worthy recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild of Food Writers, has spent the past five years researching her most recent book - The Food of Spain. "I went...

Restaurant pop-ups in pubs are becoming a clear trend in London at the moment.  Recently we've seen Patty & Bun take up shop in the Endurance in Soho while Upstairs at the Ten Bells has had an...

There's been a fair amount of discussion (a lot of it on Twitter) about how useful or not the restaurant reviews on TripAdvisor actually are - but for the restaurants that came out on top in the...

Broadway Market looks to be the place to go for interesting pop-up food events over the summer. First up is Tavolone Tapas - they'll be taking over the market's bike shop Lock7 on Friday 29 June...

[Update - these events are on all this week] It's been no secret that Peruvian cuisine is touted as this year's Big Thing so it's not a bad time for London to celebrate Peru's national Ceviche day...

[Updated 25 June 2012] Now that the Jubilee's over, there are still street parties worth going to. Top among them has to be Jamie Oliver's Fifteen and Eat Street Party on 30th June to celebrate his...

If there's one thing we learned from this year's Taste of London, it's that we should have brought wellies with us. It seemed that only the BA staff with their Union Jack wellies were the ones who...

When Hot Dinners bumped into momofuku's David Chang at the launch party for Taste of London this week, there was really only one question we wanted the answer to: when was he opening up in London? Sadly...

It may be a little grey outside, but that never stops the crowds descending on Taste of London every year. The festival kicks off today and runs until Sunday and last night judges lined up to awards...

We've known for a while that Soho House was planning to open a new Pizza East in Kentish Town (surely a Pizza North?) but what really caught our interest at the time was the promise of a brand new...

The shortlist for the UK and International Restaurant & Bar Design Awards has just been announced and there are loads of London restaurants and bars among the finalists - we've picked them out in...