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Goodbye Horses are opening their ice cream shop, The Dreamery

Information: 12 December 2024

12/12/24 - updated with new images December might not seem like the most obvious time to launch an ice cream shop, but that's exactly what the team behind Goodbye Horses are doing. We knew at the...

Ditch your lame lunchtime sarnies for a free piping hot quesadilla courtesy of Tortilla today

Information: 12 December 2024

A new survey has revealed that the UK is tired of cold, limp sandwiches. This is where Mexican restaurant group Tortilla comes in. They're taking to the streets of London to give city workers a...

Vote for your favourite new restaurant of 2024 and win afternoon tea at Harrods

Information: 12 December 2024

We want to hear your thoughts on eating out in London this year.

The next Santa Maria restaurant is going to be in Kew

Information: 11 December 2024

It's been a while since we've had a new Santa Maria pizzeria (the last was in Islington) but they're gearing up for their next - this time in Kew. The restaurant is taking over what recently used to...

Honest joins the smash burger trend with Smash + Grab in the City

Information: 11 December 2024

They've dabbled in the whole smash burger scene before with a special burger on their main menu, but now Honest Burgers are making a bigger move in that direction. From today, their Liverpool Street...

Jackson Boxer replaces Orasay with Dove

Information: 10 December 2024

There was quite the kerfuffle on Instagram when Jackson Boxer took to social to announce that his much-loved Notting Hill restaurant Orasay was going to close at the end of 2024. "There are a...

Undercroft is now opening with Aldo Zilli in the kitchen

Information: 10 December 2024

10/12/24 - updated with menu details Earlier this year, there was the surprising news that Birmingham-based chef Brad Carter had decided to pull out of the launch of the much-hyped Undercroft...

It's all change for Applebee’s in Borough Market with an ex-Jason Atherton chef on board

Information: 09 December 2024

One of Borough Market's oldest restaurants has decided to celebrate its 25th birthday with a major shake-up. Applebee's has been in the market since it first started selling seafood back in 1998...

Kricket comes to Shoreditch (where they'll be serving breakfast)

Information: 09 December 2024

Kricket are on the expansion trail again, following up their recent Canary Wharf opening by coming to Shoreditch. Taking over the space that was most recently Apothecary East, their latest opening...

Noisy Oyster is all about seafood and martinis in Shoreditch

Information: 06 December 2024

If you've been following Hot Dinners for a while you'll know that there's nothing we enjoy more than a well made martini, so the arrival of a seafood bistro in Shoreditch that puts the martini at...

Top St Albans pizzeria Gracey's is popping up in Battersea

Information: 04 December 2024

London's pizza game has improved immeasurably in recent years, but there's also a pizzeria just north of the M25 that everyone's been talking about. Gracey's in St Albans has been getting rave...

Dave's Hot Chicken turn up the spice level for their arrival in London

Information: 04 December 2024

If you're the kind of person who opts for lemon & herb when they go to Nando's then keep scrolling because you're not going to want anything to do with Dave's Hot Chicken. The cult US chicken chain,...

Dalston Yard is now Yardlife, a three-month preview of the real thing

Information: 04 December 2024

Last summer there were bug plans for a new food, drinks and events space in Dalston. Called Dalston Yard, it was the brainchild of Dominic Cools-Lartigue, the man who opened The Tramshed Project and...

The Prince Arthur disrupts the London pub scene with its own caviar and a Basque restaurant

Information: 03 December 2024

A Hot Dinners exclusive If there's one thing that 2024 has taught us, it's that the London pub scene is very much still alive and kicking. We started the year strong with crowds thronging the newly...

The Groucho closed after police suspend licence over rape allegation

Information: 02 December 2024

Updated 2/12/24 with more information It's survived numerous scandals and been one of the cornerstones of Soho's louche late-night scene since it first opened in the eighties, but now The Groucho is...

The viral sensation Spud Bros is popping up in London

Information: 02 December 2024

They have become a massive viral hit on TikTok, with enormous queues developing around their Preston truck and now Spud Bros have arrived in London. Their original Preston baked potato truck,...

What to expect from the new Park Hyatt London River Thames in Nine Elms

Information: 02 December 2024

Anyone who's been to, works at or lives near Vauxhall or Nine Elms will have been aware of the progress of the looming pair of towers, aka One Nine Elms, that are now complete. The Park Hyatt London...

Krokodilos restaurant in Kensington promises to serve up amazing Greek food

Information: 30 November 2024

Do you know what's more stressful than opening a new restaurant in London just before Christmas? Opening two restaurants. But that's the delightful pickle that restaurateurs George Bukhov-Weinstein, Ilya Demichev...

Rake is the next residency to take over at The Compton Arms

Information: 29 November 2024

So far, the hit rate at Islington pub The Compton Arms for picking extremely interesting chef residencies is out of the park. They started with Schmaltz by Chris D'Sylva who went on to open Dorian. Then...

Fat Phill's are hoping that Battersea folk will love their Dutch smash burgers

Information: 29 November 2024

29/11/24 - Updated with opening details A Dutch burger group is hoping that the London love affair with smash burgers is very much still in the ascendancy. Fat Phill's started life in Amsterdam five...

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