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Some tickets are already on sale for one of Hot Dinners' favourite foodie events of the year Taste of London (16-19 June in Regent's Park) - you can buy standard and VIP right now - but put 15 March...

The shortlist for the 2011 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards has just been announced, which is always an interesting mixture of restaurants and bars you either know well or may not have thought of...

The publication of a Top 100 best restaurant list is always of interest to Hot Dinners and today's release from Top Table of their Top 100 diner-rated restaurants in the UK has some interesting...

He may bear more than a passing resemblance to the 1970s TV character Catweazle, but mixologist Nick Strangeway's tenure at both Hawksmoor and Hix Bar had cocktail lovers swooning with pleasure. Now...

Hot Dinners sits down with Bryn Williams to find out how he squares TV fame with operating a neighbourhood restaurant and why Odettes is both a place for vegetarians and game lovers.

It's not usually advisable to accept an invitation to any event on a Monday night which involves tasting 30 different wines, but when Hot Dinners found out we'd be helping put together the final...

It seems wrong describing someone as Butcher To The Stars, but that's a good description of Dario Cecchini. Just google him and you'll find out that Elton John once paid him $2500 for a single steak...

Hibiscus chef Claude Bosi's clearly a popular fellow, teaming up with not one but two Michelin-starred chefs for a couple of unmissable dinners - a sort of cheffy BOGOF if you like - over the next...

If you're starting to get a little irritated (or plain jealous) reading all the critics' glowing reviews for Dinner by Heston when you despair of ever getting hold of a table there, we think may...

Here's a date to put in the diary if you're partial to particularly good wines. On the 26th March, following the success of last year's event, Laithwaites wine company are holding their second...

March is just around the corner, which means all celtic-blooded people in London ought to be in training for the annual festival of the Irish, St Patrick's Day. Now while Hot Dinners has nothing but...

The path to the opening of Russell Norman's new venture Spuntino has been anything but smooth. Originally intended to open in the summer of last year, the project stalled to due to lease issues and...

Hot Dinners popped on over to Somerset House last night for a tasting of Tom Aikens new cheesy recipes for Long Clawson Dairy. The Michelin-starred chef has just published Cooking Creatively With...

Update - read our latest Gilbert Scott preview with details of the final menu. St Pancras has to be our favourite building in London and, like English Heritage, we'd want to come down like a ton of...

Update - José is now open at 104 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UB.  It's not taking reservations, so just turn up and wait for a table. José Pizarro, the man who brought us the brilliant Tapas...

The Observer memorably described their pizzas as 'the best in Britain' and certainly if the drooling reviews of our fellow foodies on Twitter are anything to go by, Franco Manca's pizzas are,...

Here in London we have nose-to-tail eating courtesy of St John's, but we're a tad behind our friends across the Pond who've taken the concept of using the whole animal that one step further. Marlow...

If you were inspired by Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan's TV restaurant tour The Trip, you might want to schedule a trip of your own next month to one of the restaurants featured on the show, L'Enclume. As part...

They were last seen in a kitchen together for the 10-10-10 lunch during London Restaurant Festival, now Raymond Blanc is returning to the kitchens at Bistrot Bruno Loubet for a special charity lunch...

Hurrah and huzzah! Bruno Loubet, whose Bistrot Bruno Loubet won Best of the Bunch in Hot Dinner's 2010 Awards, is apparently already looking to open a second restaurant. It's barely a year since...