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Heaton, Butler and Bayne opens at Covent Garden

Information: 08 April 2013

Hot Dinners readers will get an exclusive 50% discount on the food bill for lunch and dinner at Heaton, Butler and Bayne from 10-11 April 2013. Today sees the opening of Heaton, Butler and Bayne, a...

Kimchi Cult starts six month residency at The Black Heart in Camden

Information: 08 April 2013

After a successful pop-up earlier this year, popular street food purveyors Kimchi Cult have now set up shop in the Black Heart pub for the long term. They've just started a six month stretch in the...

Bone Daddies 5 course ramen feast with Mark Hix at Tramshed

Information: 08 April 2013

Ramen may not necessarily be the food you'd think of first for a blowout meal, but an event coming up at Hix Tramshed will require slightly more of your wonga than usual. Every month,...

Jamie Oliver relaunches Fifteen with ex St John chef

Information: 04 April 2013

Ten years after it first opened, Jamie Oliver’s Shoreditch restaurant Fifteen is having a major revamp. The restaurant is in the final stages of a full refurbishment and Jamie has brought in a new...

Young Turk James Lowe hosts three day residency at the Rooftop Cafe

Information: 03 April 2013

As one third of the original London dream team the Young Turks, James Lowe, there's a lot riding on his first solo restaurant endeavour. But while young James works out where his first place will...

Toast food festival coming to Shoreditch in June

Information: 03 April 2013

As if you didn't know it already, London's a real international hub when it comes to events discussing and celebrating food. Hard on the heels of The Lab in April, we can now reveal a second really...

Hakkasan group closes Chrysan restaurant

Information: 03 April 2013

Barely six months after opening, City restaurant Chrysan has shut up shop. The Hakkasan Group issued a statement today about the immediate closure of Chrysan saying they had "ceased trading the...

First look: Great Northern Hotel, King’s Cross

Information: 03 April 2013

One of the final parts in the grand regeneration project which has transformed Kings Cross over the past 15 years is about to open. The Grade II listed Great Northern Hotel has had some £40m...

Tommi’s Hamburger Joint plans branches in Marylebone and Shoreditch

Information: 02 April 2013

Tommi’s Hamburger Joint, plans to open two new outlets in London this Summer. The Icelandic burger chain, which opened its first London outlet in Marylebone last year, is taking a space in...

St John Hotel becomes One Leicester Street in May

Information: 02 April 2013

St John Hotel - later renamed St John Chinatown - opened to rave reviews and a large amount of foreign press interest when it opened back in Spring 2011 and subsequently gained a Michelin star...

Porky's BBQ joint to open on Chalk Farm Road in Camden

Information: 02 April 2013

Camden Town is getting itself a BBQ joint. Porky's - an all-American smokehouse – will open on Chalk Farm Road in mid May. The people behind it are husband and wife team Joy and Simon Brigg who also...

Dorchester chef opens Chriskitch in Muswell Hill

Information: 01 April 2013

Lucky Muswell Hill residents have a new cafe on their patch, and the bloke behind it has a pretty impressive pedigree. Chef Chris has worked for Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road and most...

Dalston's first fine dining restaurant prepares for a restaurant revolution

Information: 01 April 2013

It may more usually be the area of London most closely associated with facial hair and restaurant playlists, but it seems that Dalston has finally come of age with the announcement of its first fine...

Dior pop-up cafe launches at Harrods

Information: 30 March 2013

[Updated 30/3/13 with gallery and report from weekend lunch at the cafe] So chic! Harrods, which for ages was a pretty boring place to eat and drink in, has more recently become much more clued up...

Poppies opens on Hawley Crescent in Camden in time for Easter

Information: 28 March 2013

Popular Spitalfields fish and chipper Poppies has picked a pretty perfect day to open their second restaurant. They'll be opening the doors on their 110 seater spot on Camden's Hawley Crescent on...

Camden's The Blue's Bar puts alligator on the menu

Information: 27 March 2013

It seems like yesterday that we were writing about grasshoppers being trialled on the menu at Wahaca. But that's so old hat. This week, it's all about fried alligator. That's right - Camden's The...

Roti Chai shack hits the South Bank from today

Information: 27 March 2013

Last summer, the four day Roti Chai pop-up at the South Bank was a great success - so they're now back again for a full month this time. The Chaat Shack and Bar opens today (March 27) and will be...

Boundary Rooftop now open all year round

Information: 25 March 2013

Boundary Rooftop in Shoreditch is already one of the best rooftop destinations in London for warmer times (as in the pic on the right), but now it'll be a destination all year round. They've just...

The Truscott Arms opens in Maida Vale with ex Galvin chef

Information: 25 March 2013

West London has been somewhat overlooked in the restaurant-opening boom, but there's a new place on the way. A new pub, restaurant and exhibition space is opening in Maida Vale, with ex Galvin at...

Gordon Ramsay relaunches Restaurant Gordon Ramsay with Clare Smyth

Information: 22 March 2013

[Updated 22/3 with brand new images and a gallery showing the new look] He may have spent most of the past year opening places in Vegas, but Gordon Ramsay isn't about to take his eye off the London...

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