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Smithfield and Farringdon are both among the best developing food areas in town at the moment, with recent openings Polpo, Burger & Lobster, the Longroom and a great looking Byron all revitalising the area...

If there's a notable trend in North London this year so far it's pies. We've already been round to try them at Kentish Town pub Tapping The Admiral and first bricks and mortar shop for Piebury...

There can't be a better time for a new pancake place to open than the run up to Pancake Day. So it's perfect timing for new East London spot Shutterbug, which has been exquisitely described (for...

[Updated 7/2/13 with menu, design and bar details] He's been opening restaurants as far away as Singapore and Shanghai but, as rumoured on our Coming Soon page for a few months now, Jason Atherton...

If you’re a fan of Ibérico pork (or all things piggy), then you’ll want to pay a visit to Tramontana Brindisa this month. In celebration of the traditional winter slaughter of the pig, known in...

American chef Tim Anderson found fame in the UK when he won MasterChef in 2011. Since then, he left his old job at the Euston Tap to set out on his own. His first restaurant Nanban, focuses on...

There are all manner of restaurants opening up in London we're pretty excited about, but there's something special about the ones coming in the Shard. Maybe it's because eating there will be a way...

It won over our hearts (and completely furred up our arteries) when we ate there just before Christmas, now the newly-reopened Electric Diner has designs on your breakfast. They're introducing a...

TV chef Gizzi Erskine's last time in the kitchen with Disco Bistro's Carl Clarke was at her Korean pop-up K-Town. That was a big hit, and they'll soon teaming up again at Clarke's Disco Bistro at St...

News reaches us this week of an interesting place opening in Victoria - one of the few areas of the city almost entirely bereft of decent restaurants. Well new Italian spot Tozi hopes to change all...

It's one of the best known daily street food markets in London - and now it's coming back to King's Cross following its winter break (after a few recent guest spots around London too). KERB will be...

The Sustainable Restaurant Association has just had its second annual awards with a number of London places coming away from today's ceremony with gongs. Wahaca (pictured here) picked up the...

(Updated 4/2/13 with opening details) Having had recent success on the South Bank with their Summer Shack, Yalla Yalla are jumping back into the pop-up business. Their new al-fresco shack is taking...

A globetrotting Portuguese chef who has worked with Paul Bocuse, Luis Baena, is coming to London as Head Chef for Notting Hill Kitchen, taking over the site once occupied by Notting Hill Brasserie...

In the run up to a special Surrealist Art sale at Sotheby’s this coming Tuesday, the auction house's Café will be serving a special Surrealist Tea every day from 3-4.45pm. The tea menu includes...

As if we weren't excited enough by the upcoming opening of Balthazar, we now hear that there will eventually be two Balthazar bakeries in London open to all. The first is the main Boulangerie,...

Well it's true to say we are ALWAYS interested in hearing what Russell Norman, the man behind huge hits Polpo and Spuntino, is up to so news this morning that he's just signed a deal on a new...

Matching food and wine isn't a task people are often confident to undertake; instead many are comfortable leaving this to sommeliers and oenophiles. A new project launched by MasterChef co-host John...

City workers may have been wondering when the hoardings were finally going to come off Hispania London - a massive restaurant and bar project which has been under wraps for a long time on Lombard...

Forget the World's 50 Best, the Top 50 Gastropubs, which has just been announced, offers up a list that many of us might have a little more chance of working our way through. The 2013 awards whihc...