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Hot Dinners braved the placard-wielding demonstrators to try out The Playboy Club in Mayfair last night. Truth be told, once inside, you'd see more flesh on any episode of The Only Way Is Essex than...

Jamie Oliver’s empire building continues apace with the news today that his Jamie’s Italian chain is to open a massive new restaurant in Islington. The new restaurant will be just a stone’s throw...

Update. You can now email your reservation requests to: info@roganic.co.uk and the reservations phone line opens on June 6. The restaurant opens mid-June. Twitter was all of a flutter just before...

An already impressive line-up of names due to cook at the London Eye for the 2011 London Restaurant Festival has been boosted by the  arrival of two new chefs. We hear that Hélène Darroze and...

MasterChef finalist Tom Whitaker may have lost out on the big trophy, but he's jumped straight back into the kitchen. The advertising exec from Putney has been spending time working at City...

Given the total meltdown London's foodie network went into the last time the chaps behind Hawksmoor opened a new restaurant, we fully expect news that a third Hawsksmoor is on the way will send...

Street food in PeckhamNorth Londoners are going to have put on their trekking boots if they want to be part of one of the buzziest food events in town. The event in question is Street Food @ The Rye...

All manner of foodies descended on the V&A last night for the Waitrose Summer Party. Hot Dinners spotted Raymond Blanc, Heston Blumenthal and Saturday Kitchen’s wine buff Olly Smith in the crowds as well...

You've got to love London. How many other cities in the world would you find a Hawaiian sandwich shop and a Peruvian pop-up to entertain the foodie massive? The pop-up in question is Limanation, a...

Hot on the heels of our exclusive that Pitt Cue Co would be running a BBQ trailer under Hungerford Bridge on the South Bank for four months, launching on Friday, comes news that another barbecue...

The genius marketing partnership that is the tie-in between Heston Blumenthal and Waitrose continues with news today that Heston has created a very special burger for the supermarket...just in time...

We know how fond Londoners are of their meat, so we'll expect queues round the block when Pitt Cue Co unveil their BBQ trailer on the South Bank this coming Friday (20 May). The trailer is the...

We'll have to admit, until we went to Wright Bros Soho last week, we thought oysters should be firmly off the menu from May to August because of the old 'No R in the month' rule. Restaurant owner...

It's always one of our favourite foodie events of the summer and this year's Taste of London looks set to be an unmissable affair. Hot Dinners spent a lovely lunchtime this week flitting between...

As part of its Project Ocean season to promote sustainable fishing, Selfridges has persuaded a frankly stellar line-up of top chefs to put on seafood demonstrations at its Oxford Street Store over...

Hot Dinners caught up with MasterChef 2011 winner Tim Anderson to find out what sort of restaurant he is planning on opening, why he had to quit his job and where he likes to eat out in London.

While everyone else in London was gawping in front of the TV at Made in Chelsea, the rest of the SW1 set were gathering at the Langham Hotel for Tatler's restaurant awards. Somewhat surprisingly the...

Here's a great idea for London bosses, guaranteed to turn sweltering office slaves into your adoring minions - gelato delivered to your door. From today, Gelupo, Soho’s award-winning gelateria, will...

Earlier this week, Hot Dinners popped over to the Oval for the launch of Sriram Aylur's Quilon pop-up. This will be the first time that the Michelin-starred Quilon has appeared anywhere other than...

When it first opened a year ago, Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental drove London foodies – ourselves included – into a frenzy of excitement over their burgers (the charcuterie was pretty good too). So...