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28/9/23 - updated with the opening date and menu details We knew way back in 2019 that the people behind Som Saa, Mark Dobbie and Andy Oliver, had a successful crowdfunder for a new restaurant. But with the...

28/9/23 - updated with the opening date Last year, top chef Phil Howard (of Michelin-starred Elystan Street) got into London's ever-growing fresh pasta scene with Notto, just off Piccadilly Circus. In...

We've seen a sudden influx of new taco restaurants of late. Two have been from footballers and another incoming taco joint is from a Hollywood star. So it's actually something of a change to see one...

27/9/23 - updated with the opening date If you've been wondering what's going to take over the old Bright space in Netil House then we have the story for you. It's been bought by James Dye - the co-owner of...

It's a good year for the team behind Trailer Happiness. Not only is their OG bar in Notting Hill celebrating its 20th birthday this year, but they're also on the verge of opening a new restaurant...

A new cocktail bar is coming to Brixton that looks like it will be well worth your attention.  It all comes from April Jackson, owner of Wood and Water and who you might have seen on The Apprentice and...

27/9/23 - updated with details of the launch Seven years after they opened their taproom and kitchen in Peckham, London sake brewery Kanpai are on the move. Over the past few years, the self-taught brewers...

Updated 27/9/23 with imagery and menu details A new Honey and Co is on the way from Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich. It's their second time in Bloomsbury as they get ready to open Honey & Co...

  They must be doing very well in Holborn, because the team behind Colonel Saab are about to unveil a second restaurant.  Opening about two years after they launched the first place, they've taken over the...

When a London restaurant's been around for over 110 years we always take interest in any changes. And over the weekend the team behind Richoux in Piccadilly announced a big one - that they're...

As we move into the Christmas season, all manner of crazy pop-ups start arriving in town. One of the first is the Toblerone Diamond Truffle Vault, coming to Piccadilly this week.  It's all a bit of...

Updated 25/9/23 with opening date and menu details A new high-end Italian restaurant is heading to Mayfair. This time, it's the turn of Il Gattopardo, a restaurant that they say is inspired by 1960s...

23/9/23 - Updated with the opening date It's been almost 15 years since Bob Bob Ricard first opened their restaurant in Soho, with its infamous "press for Champagne" buttons. Since then, the glitzy...

23/9/23 - Updated with the opening date It's all hotting up at the OWO. The massive revamp of the Old War Office, adds a new Raffles hotel to London not to mention upcoming restaurants from...

We've heard murmurings of something new coming from Fallow but while we wait to hear about that, they've a new offshoot that's almost next door to their St James restaurant. Inside St James's...

The Good Egg is getting bigger - they're opening their third restaurant in Camden. If you're unfamiliar with their current restaurants, either in Carnaby or Margate, their menus are mainly inspired by a...

Here at Hot Dinners we are partial to a good cocktail and bar snack offering. So when we heard that the folk behind the 10 Cases and Parsons in Covent Garden were opening a new bar and cafe with...

Brixton residents who love their suya, and those who haven't had the pleasure yet, should look out for a new West African takeaway business opening their way very soon. Alhaji Suya is getting ready to...

London's ongoing love affair with Mexican, Spanish and Peruvian food continues with a new restaurant that's bringing all three of them together to St Katharine Docks.  Called Chayote, it comes from...