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Notting Hill restaurant The Ledbury has ousted The Fat Duck from its spot as National Restaurant of the Year, according to Restaurant Magazine. In their 2010 awards, announced in London tonight, The...

Quizmeister Anne Robinson cowed the unruly masses at the London Restaurant Festival's Big Quiz last night which was held at Le Cafe Anglais. Changing tack from last year's festival quiz which pitted...

It's been the poorest-held secret in restaurant circles that Angela Hartnett wanted her freedom. Today she finally announced that she's buying her restaurant Murano from Gordon Ramsay Holdings and...

Chef Anthony Demetre is best known for the highly successful Soho and Mayfair restaurants he runs with partner Will Smith, Arbutus and Wild Honey.  On the eve of the opening of the duo's new...

They've often been likened to modern-day Willy Wonka's now foodie experience-creators Bompas & Parr are going to be opening an pop-up Chewing Gum Factory at Whiteleys Shopping Centre in Bayswater for a...

There was an astonishingly A-list chef turnout last night at Brown's Hotel at a party for the retiring Editor of the Michelin Guide, Derek Bulmer. Brown's, as Bulmer explained, was chosen as it was...

Visitors to this year's Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park won't have a problem finding somewhere good to eat, when all that deciding which modern masterpiece will look best over the fireplace gives...

Hot Dinners popped down last night to the Tramshed in Old Street to the launch of London's latest pop-up - the Innocent 5 for 5 Cafe. With food created by TV chef Gizzi Erskine, the pop up is a...

For a city with a whacking great river running through it, London is pretty poorly served with riverfront bars. So we're relatively excited to hear about the OXO Tower's plans to launch a new bar...

It's been a good year for Spitalfields restaurant Galvin La Chapelle. In May it was chosen as Tatler's Best Restaurant. In June it won best overall designed restaurant at the Restaurant & Bar Design...

At Pearl Restaurant last night for an evening hosted by chef Jun Tanaka for Action Against Hunger, we discovered another date to put in your diary over the London Restaurant Festival. We've already...

Hot Dinners grabs five minutes with Polpetto chef Tom Oldroyd to find out why his Venetian small dishes are a big hit in Soho.

We're already excited about the upcoming London Restaurant Festival (4-18 October) - what with the supper clubs, festival menus and special events. Now there's one more reason to look forward it -...

More details have been released today about the opening of Brawn, the new restaurants from the owners of Covent Garden's Terroirs. Brawn, which will be located at 49 Columbia Road will be open daily...

When Richard Corrigan tweeted the other week that he'd just launched a new all-burger tasting menu at his Mayfair restaurant Corrigan's, well we felt honour-bound to try it out. So we snagged an...

An eclectic group of actors, comics and reality TV stars gathered at Shoreditch House last night to launch ActionAid's Millione Rosé - the £7.99 wine of which £1 of each bottle sold will be used to...

We rather like the sound of the Super Natural pop-up project in South Kensington. Part of London Design Week 2010 it's part installation, part sensory overload and part café aimed at celebrating the...

This week's London restaurant news: In which we learnt: the rather depressing news that one in five meals at the London Olympics will be a McDonalds that Notting Hill's Eight over Eight will be...

It's great writing about food and restaurants in London right now, but after a special lunch at The Ledbury today, hosted by Tourism South Wales, where Sydney chefs  Mark Best from Marque and Peter...

Hot Dinners was over in Bayswater last night for the opening of the new Oyster Bar at Rowley Leigh's Le Café Anglais where the place was mobbed with foodies and locals checking out the new layout...