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When Westfield in White City first opened its doors to the public, its food offering showed how shopping centres didn't always have to be the place where food on the go went to die. And now their...

Johnnie Mountain, the chef behind The English Pig in the Barbican, has just announced plans to open a new restaurant at Millbank in early October. Mountain, who has made appearances on the Great...

Starting today, Hot Dinners' guide to the week ahead. This week, we have two major new restaurants due to open in London, including the much anticipated Roganic. If you haven't already booked a...

[Updated 1 July 2011: They've just extended their stay at Restaurants in Residence by three days from 5-7 July - so if you didn't get tickets the first time around you might be in luck!] One of Hot...

A foie gras burger with summer truffle created by Pascal Aussignac, head chef at Club Gascon pipped a veritable champions league of chefs to the post for Best in Taste award at Taste of London last...

Eschew the dubious delights of your local school summer fair this month, and head instead for East London where the Art Car Boot Fair at the Truman Brewery offers the chance to pick up a bargain bit...

Eating out in this town can be an expensive business, and while we're sure you all love your fathers very much, it doesn't hurt if there's a special deal on Father's Day. These three London...

It's Braveheart by stealth! A Scottish restaurant is taking over that most English of establishments, M Manze's famous pie and mash shop on Chapel Market in Islington. But sassenachs can breathe...

If you like burgers and you're rather fond of beer, then you might want to head down to Hawksmoor Seven Dials later this month for a special Brews and Burgers night. Both the Seven Dials and...

Food trucks are huge news in the States, so we couldn't be more pleased to see that Street Kitchen, the trailer set up by Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel for last year's London Restaurant Festival, will...

By the fourth day of our trip, it was rapidly becoming clear that our planned restaurant and bar itinerary was - how shall we put it - ever so slightly ambitious. Turns out we couldn't eat three...

If you've got £60 to spare, you might want to get on the blower to Selfridges and book yourself on a pretty special dinner coming up with Angela Hartnett next month. Hartnett will be cooking for one...

On day 3 of our New York trip we’ve established a pattern, go out, find somewhere lovely to eat, head back to the hotel to recover and then go out and do it all again. Today we spared ourselves a...

Another day in New York - another heatwave.  As temperatures scaled to record levels, we sought the respite (and air-conditioning) of some top NYC places on the second day of our visit. The day got...

Hot Dinners has jetted off to New York for a few days to eat and shop our way through the city that never sleeps. The trip got off to a pretty great start when the lovely people at BA upgraded us to...

Hot Dinners caught up with L'Enclume chef Simon Rogan to find out his plans for the Marylebone restaurant and to see if this means he’s had enough of country life.

It's all very well putting great food on the plate, but if the place you're eating in looks like a dog's dinner, then there's no question that it detracts from the joy of eating out. Good restaurant...

Top foodie things worth trying this weekend Forget firing up the barbecue yourself. Head on down to the South Bank where Pitt Cue Co are doing a storming business out of a custom trailer under...

As anyone with a school-age child will be able to tell you, raising funds for a school is all down to the calibre of people you can persuade to sit on the event committee. So we're pretty impressed...

With Jose Pizarro busy winning accolades for his newly-opened restaurant in Bermondsey, his previous venture Tierra Brindisa has been getting an overhaul in Soho. Previously a fully-fledged Spanish...