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Ramsay, Boulud and Hartnett head up London Eye dining at London Restaurant Festival 2010

Information: 08 June 2010

Top New York chef Daniel Boulud will be joining 10 London chefs cooking up a storm at this year's London Restaurant Festival in one of the London Eye capsules. The full line-up of chefs taking part...

More New York restaurants look to open in London

Information: 07 June 2010

There are several New Yorkers who must have been watching the successful Spring launch of Daniel Boulud's Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge particularly carefully. It seems...

Heston names his new Mandarin Oriental London restaurant

Information: 04 June 2010

Here at Hot Dinners, like many other foodies, we would easily rate our lunch at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck as the best lunch we've ever had. So we're keeping a close eye on the Mandarin Oriental, where...

Hell's Kitchen USA winner will land Savoy Grill job

Information: 03 June 2010

'The contestants include an Italian who doesn't know how to make pasta. A woman who burned Ramsay's lips by laying on the hot sauce when a few drops would have worked. A Hannibal Lecter wanna-be (he...

Jermyn Street restaurant claims biggest rosé list in Europe

Information: 02 June 2010

As we write this, the rain is sluicing down on the Hot Dinners roof, but we're an optimistic bunch and apparently summer is on its way back this weekend. So what better reason do you need than the...

Joel Antunes returns to London at the Park Plaza

Information: 01 June 2010

Zut Alors! There's a French invasion of London happening. We've already had successful openings from Daniel Boulud and Bruno Loubet this year. Pierre Koffman is gearing up for launch in...

Restaurant critic Fay Maschler to open her first London restaurant

Information: 28 May 2010

Evening Standard restaurant critic Fay Maschler is passing over to the other side - she's just announced the opening of her first restaurant project. Maschler, in partnership with Simon Davis - who...

London Restaurant Festival 2010 reveals key events for this year

Information: 27 May 2010

If we haven't already whet your appetite for the London Restaurant Festival, then let us do better. This morning, the festival organisers revealed a few more key details for this year's festival...

Hibiscus chef Claude Bosi wants to open a new gastropub

Information: 27 May 2010

Home county foodies alert - Hibiscus chef Claude Bosi, whose restaurant recently entered the World's 50 Best Restaurant list, has new plans to open a gastropub somewhere around London. In an...

Michelin Possible: Claude Bosi is aiming for three stars

Information: 26 May 2010

We find out from Hibiscus chef Claude Bosi about the effect of being on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list and aiming for three Michelin stars....

Caprice Holdings open Mount Street Deli in Mayfair

Information: 25 May 2010

If Hot Dinners had a pied-a-terre in Mayfair (we wish) then we’re pretty sure Mount Street Deli would soon be on speed-dial. Opening tomorrow, this venture brings together dishes from some of...

Top chefs gather to celebrate 25 years of Michelin success at Waterside Inn

Information: 19 May 2010

It’s just as well the landing stage outside the Waterside Inn in Bray was up to the cumulative weight of hundreds of chefs. This cracking shot was sent to us, courtesy of Yes Chef! Magazine, showing...

Bocca di Lupo to open new espresso bar, deli and gelateria in Soho

Information: 18 May 2010

Eagle-eyed blogger goodforlunch spotted a familiar looking graphic in the window opposite Bocca di Lupo.’Too far to be Spuntino’ he posited. So Hot Dinners called up BdL to find out what was going...

Riverford roving restaurant hits Islington this summertime

Information: 17 May 2010

If you're too busy, lazy or just too much of a committed Londoner to be tempted into the English countryside over the summer, we've just heard about a farm event set on bringing the taste of the...

Burger news, Goodman expands and Marco gets a pasting

Information: 16 May 2010

A round-up of this week's London foodie news: Let’s start off on a positive note with the Independent’s story that burgers may not be bad for you after all. According to a series of new scientific...

Secret London Restaurant Festival project for Jun Tanaka

Information: 13 May 2010

AA Gill may not have worried about revealing details from this year’s London Restaurant Festival when he blurted out his invitation to take part in a French food debate, but chef Jun Tanaka is much...

Talking to Jun Tanaka

Information: 12 May 2010

Chef Jun Tanaka talks about what goes on behind the swing door in London's best restaurants.

Galvin La Chapelle is Tatler's Best Restaurant 2010

Information: 11 May 2010

There were some interesting results at last night’s Tatler Laurent-Perrier & Taste of London Restaurant Awards 2010. While Best Kitchen for Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley wasn’t a real surprise, perhaps...

Marcus Wareing to open second London restaurant

Information: 11 May 2010

Marcus Wareing has announced plans to open a second restaurant in London next year. In an interview in today's Guardian, Wareing tells the paper he'll be following his former mentor Gordon Ramsay's...

World's most expensive omelette goes on sale in London

Information: 09 May 2010

Should the Tories finally hammer out an agreement with the Lib Dems, they may wish to celebrate in style by ordering the gulls’ egg omelette on the menu for a very limited period at their favourite...

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