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Michel Roux Jnr and Bruno Loubet turn out for Bistro du Vin's opening night

Information: 08 April 2011

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...

Roka chef to open Aurelia on Cork Street on old Mulligans site

Information: 07 April 2011

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...

Bruno Loubet bar snacks make ZTH Bar an instant Clerkenwell classic

Information: 06 April 2011

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...

Saigon Street cafe opens Ca Phe! on Islington's Upper Street

Information: 06 April 2011

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...

World's richest flock to Dinner by Heston

Information: 05 April 2011

Interesting piece in The Times today on how London has become the international go-to place to party with the uber-rich (provided of course you can afford a ticket to one of their charitable balls). And...

Young Turks Dinner at the Loft Project reviewed

Information: 04 April 2011

It's always nice feeling you're at the cutting edge of where the London dining scene is going, and this week's Young Turks dinners held at Nuno Mendes' Loft Project in Hackney was the very example...

Blumethal trifle, Gordon checks out city competition and chip fat power

Information: 03 April 2011

This week, Hot Dinners paid a visit to the new Searcy's Champagne Bar in One New Change. It's a marked departure from the other fizz bars in the group; rather than being out in the open, this bar...

René Redzepi gets funding to open larger Noma

Information: 01 April 2011

You guessed it - this was our April Fool's story. If you've ever tried and failed to get a reservation at the World's Best Restaurant™ Noma, we have glad tidings for you today. It seems that...

Floating Pommery bar planned for St Katharine Docks

Information: 01 April 2011

Another reason to wish the days away till Summer arrives in London popped up today with the news of a floating champagne and seafood bar planned for St Katharine Docks by Tower Bridge. Pontoon will, as...

Cay Tre and Viet Grill owner launches Banh Mi joint on Old Street

Information: 29 March 2011

The man behind the brilliant Vietnamese joints Cay Tre and Viet Grill in Shoreditch, Hugh Trung Bui, has turned his attention to Vietnam's legendary Banh Mi sandwich and has just opened his first...

Glitzy new hotel for Guildford will sign up celebrity chef

Information: 28 March 2011

It may not be the first (or even the second, third or fourth) place you'd think of going for a glamorous dinner, but a new hotel opening up in Guildford has designs on drawing London diners out of...

Q&A with Noel Hunwick from high-tech Inamo

Information: 25 March 2011

Hot Dinners caught up with Noel Hunwick, one of the co-founders of interactive restaurant Inamo to talk about clicks, dishes and more as he celebrated the addition of Regent’s Street Inamo St James...

New backer for Tom Aikens means restaurant revamp

Information: 24 March 2011

In the London restaurant world, you're usually only as good as your backers and Tom Aikens appears to have landed himself shiny new financial angels in the form of Turkey company, The Istanbul Doors...

Young Turks dinner at The Loft Project is Spring's hot ticket

Information: 22 March 2011

Our remit at Hot Dinners has always been to bring readers into the bubble - to let you know what's happening on the London restaurant scene. The Young Turks absolutely tick that box, being a collective of...

Alain Roux and Alex James open new Cheese Makers Market

Information: 22 March 2011

Now that Spring's finally here, jaded Londoners might be looking to spend an hour or two outside the city in the countryside. And while we've nothing against a nice walk in the countryside, unless...

Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social experiment

Information: 21 March 2011

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.

Outstanding In The Field dinner movement comes to the UK

Information: 20 March 2011

Outstanding In the Field is quite literally a grassroots organisation which over the past 11 years has taken to farms all over America, setting out dining tables and chairs on everwhere from roaming...

Stevie Parle cooking Sunday lunch at Blacks in Soho

Information: 16 March 2011

If you haven't made it across London to try Telegraph food writer and chef Stevie Parle's Dock Kitchen, put a note in your diary, as he's heading into town to cook Sunday lunch this weekend at...

Using Your Loaf - talking to the woman behind the BBC's Great British Food Revival

Information: 16 March 2011

Bridget Boseley, producer of BBC's ‘The Great British Food Revival’ talks to us about championing local produce.

New ham and sherry bar Capote y Toros to open in Kensington

Information: 15 March 2011

As the weedy spring sunshine tries to dispel London's usual grey gloom, Hot Dinners' day was brightened still further by the news that tapas group Cambio de Tercio are going to be opening a ham and...

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