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It's not every day you get invited to sample 'bubble tea', a milky or clear tea-based drink primarily distinguished by its thick layer of chewy tapioca pearls at its base. Bubble tea originated in...

We sit down with Jason Atherton to find out what we can expect from his new restaurant, Pollen Street Social, and why it’s the stuff of his dreams.

Looking for a supperclub with a difference? Last week, a new supperclub launched at Koffmann's in the Berkley hotel - hosted by none other than Pierre Koffmann himself.  He and his partner Claire...

Just like royal kisses, you wait ages for the people behind Purl bar to open something new and then two come along at once. Following hard on the heels of the opening of Worship Street Whistling...

If all the recent glorious weather has you hankering for a trip to the seaside, let restaurateur and chef Mark Hix bring the beach to you with his Lyme Regis restaurant pop-up at Selfridges next...

You can swim against the tide of royal wedding related brouhaha or you can do as Hot Dinners is doing, buy some bunting and embrace the monarchist madness that's enveloping the city. To that mind,...

It may not have a name that trips easily off the tongue, but the soon-to-be-launched Worship Street Whistling Shop is pretty much guaranteed to be a new Shoreditch hot spot. The bar's owners are...

With a new expansion, da Polpo, annouced this week, that's not all from the Russell Norman empire.  Next week, Polpo's Eno Club run by Wine Chap returns with more dates running up until October. ...

Update - Rock Lobsta runs from 23 - 26 June.  For more details, visit their site.  Londoners who've been to New York, sampled that city's very fine lobster rolls and then come home hankering after it and...

Update - Da Polpo is now open at 6 Maiden Lane WC2E 7NW.  Lunch reservations are taken on 020 7836 8448 but, as usual, there's a no reservation policy for dinner. It's a busy old year for Polpo owner...

Taste of London has pulled off quite a coup in getting René Redzepi from The World's Best RestaurantTM Noma to appear at this year's festival at Regent's Park. Redzepi will be holding a special Q&A...

World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards has become a key international fixture in chef's calendars (we tell you why here). Just as you shouldn't expect to see chefs in their kitchens when Le Bocuse d'Or...

We've already written about the American dining movement Outstanding in the Field which is due to make a pitstop in the UK this Autumn, now we hear that chefs from Harvey Nichols restaurants across...

Hot Dinners has a special preview of what to expect from Marcus Wareing's The Gilbert Scott in the St Pancras Hotel.

If you’ve been down to restaurant of the moment Spuntino, you can’t have failed to notice the body art of waitress Rachel Day – well it seems her work has attracted the attention of the staff at...

It's the kind of story that would have Britain's anarchists boarding the next train to Berkshire - standing in tall defiance of the 'we're all in this together' ethos, is the latest wheeze from...

It's not often you find yourself sharing elbow space at a buffet bar with Michel Roux Jnr, but that's the happy position Hot Dinners found ourselves in last night at the opening bash for Bistro du...

News hits Hot Dinners today of a very interesting new development in Mayfair - Aurelia on Cork Street is being launched by the family behind Zuma, Roka and La Petite Maison. It'll be on the site of...

As we admitted before, we’re a fickle crowd when it comes to choosing our new favourite bar. Over the past 12 months we’ve swung between Hix Bar, St John’s and 69 Colebrooke Row. But just a few...

Isn't that always the way - you wait ages for a Banh Mi shop and then two come along at once. Just last week we had the opening of Keu on Old Street, and next week another part of Islington gets a...