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BT job for Gary Rhodes is far from done deal

Information: 20 November 2009

Gary Rhodes has been widely touted as being a frontrunner to take over the iconic revolving restaurant at the top of the BT Tower, but it seems the Evening Standard jumped the gun this week when...

Selfridges woos Hix, Roux Jnr postpones plus new openings

Information: 15 November 2009

It seems to be a particularly busy time for restaurant openings at the moment, and one man is in more demand than anyone. After the extremely successful opening of Hix in Soho, Mark Hix isn't...

Terroirs wins Independent's Best Restaurant award

Information: 14 November 2009

London chefs may have missed out on the Independent newspaper's top award (chef of the year went to Whatley Manor's Martin Burge), but several of the capital's restaurants, bars and food shops...

Why Oliver wants more - Hot Dinners talks to Oliver Peyton

Information: 13 November 2009

Oliver Peyton tells Hot Dinners about the things that drive him mad and why he in turn is driven to change the perception of British food abroad

London's most influential foodies picked by Standard

Information: 10 November 2009

Its position as London's premier newspaper now assured, with the closures of both The London Paper and London Lite, the London Evening Standard this week published its list of the city's 1000 most...

Mandarin Oriental confirms Daniel Boulud restaurant

Information: 05 November 2009

Since early summer, rumours have been circulating that top Manhattan chef Daniel Boulud would be joining Heston Blumenthal in opening a restaurant at London’s Mandarin Oriental hotel. Well this...

Is Bruno Loubet opening at the Zetter hotel or not?

Information: 04 November 2009

Curiouser and curiouser - no sooner does the Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell roundly deny this week's Times exclusive that Bruno Loubet is to open a restaurant there, than someone close to Bruno throws...

Is Pierre Koffman back in the game full-time?

Information: 03 November 2009

No doubt bolstered by the continued success of the Restaurant on the Roof at Selfridges, which has already been extended till the end of the month, Pierre Koffman could be considering a permanent...

Post Office Tower revolving restaurant to re-open

Information: 01 November 2009

Biggest news of the week without doubt is the Times story that the Post Office Tower restaurant is to re-open. Apparently BT are already on the hunt for a household name to take on the revolving...

Five minutes with Sat Bains

Information: 30 October 2009

Hot Dinners catches up with Nottingham's Sat Bains to find out where he's eaten well this year and why the customer is always right

Talking to Ed Martin about gastropubs

Information: 21 October 2009

Hot Dinners finds out what makes the perfect gastropub from Ed Martin

Exclusive: Trevor Gulliver talks about the new St John Hotel

Information: 20 October 2009

When news slipped out on the internet last week that the St John empire was expanding westwards to Soho with the addition of a new restaurant and 16-room hotel, Twitter was on fire. But the only...

Fergus Henderson to open new Soho hotel

Information: 15 October 2009

One of the biggest restaurant stories to hit the internet this week has to be the news that Fergus Henderson is expanding again. Henderson whose Smithfield resturant St John currently sits at number...

Sriram Aylur from Quilon

Information: 15 October 2009

Hot Dinners talks to chef Sriram Aylur, chef at the Michelin-starred Quilon, about his new beer-matching menu and how a maturing cuisine is resulting in those all-important stars for Indian chefs in...

Alain Ducasse wants to open first Martian restaurant

Information: 15 October 2009

He's one of the world's most celestial of chefs already, with 15 Michelin stars to his name, but it seems that Alain Ducasse has other-worldly ambitions. In an interview with this month's Yes Chef!...

First London Restaurant Festival Awards results

Information: 14 October 2009

To Shoreditch last night for the inaugural London Restaurant Festival Awards where the great and the good of London’s restaurant scene – and Hot Dinners – gathered to celebrate the best of the...

Ferran Adria hints at fewer El Bulli tables to come

Information: 12 October 2009

To the Restaurant Show at Earls Court today where celebrated chef Ferran Adria from El Bulli had words to strike fear into anyone who's still trying to get a reservation at his restaurant. It seems...

Top chefs cook Sunday lunch at the London Restaurant Festival's Big Roast

Information: 11 October 2009

Another landmark event at this year's London Restaurant Festival was The Big Roast, held this Sunday at Leadenhall Market. Nine of the city's top chefs got together to cook Sunday lunch for hundreds of...

All aboard – Hot Dinners takes the Pall Mall Gourmet Odyssey bus

Information: 10 October 2009

Who could resist the idea of having a meal where every course is served by a different London restaurant and the mode of transport between each is the much-beloved Routemaster bus? Clearly, plenty...

Chocolate Unwrapped at the May Fair Hotel

Information: 10 October 2009

In between feasting with the great and the good at the London Restaurant Festival, Hot Dinners spent an all-too-brief hour to do the rounds at Chocolate Unwrapped – the public-facing part of...

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