Test Drives

Franceso Mazzei's new home on Savile Row is an instant hit - serving up some cracking Italian food

We'd been hearing some VERY good things about City Italian Canto Corvino - so we popped along to see if it lives up to the hype...

Islington gets a swanky new restaurant as Corbin and King - who are behind The Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel - open their Alsace cuisine grand cafe on Islington Green. As locals, we popped down to check out the newcomer.

The former Mayfields chef has teamed up with the former Spring sommelier for a glowing future in London Fields

This new restaurant behind Fortnum and Mason has taken a fuddy duddy spot and turned it into a modern gem

Highly regarded ex-Kopapa chef Selin Kiazim has set up a Turkish restaurant in Shoreditch - we pop down to try it out.

We take a trip to Brixton to try out MasterChef winner Tim Anderson's long-awaited izakaya and ramen shop

There's a new addition to King's Cross in the shape of the huge new German Gymnasium from D&D. 

This much-anticipated wine bar hits Lamb's Conduit Street and immediately makes itself at home

If you’re a sushi fiend, you’ll know the cravings are likely to strike at any time. You could be sitting at your desk or going from A to B and suddenly you’ll find yourself with a desire for fresh fish, cold, sticky rice and nose-clearing amounts of wasabi. No soggy sandwich or pasta salad can come close. At these times, wouldn't it be nice to...

The latest from the people behind Goodman and Burger and Lobster sees them returning to their roots.

Airport food is certainly getting more sophisticated - it's come a long way from the days when a soggy panini and a flabby croissant were the best you could expect. Now - after Gordon Ramsey's Plane Food and Heston's The Perfectionist's Café at Heathrow - Bruno Loubet is bringing his Grain Store concept to Gatwick's South Terminal, with a...

Here at Hot Dinners we like a good cocktail. We also like chocolate. But mixing these two lovely things together tends to conjure up images of the sickly sweet, syrup-laden glasses that we haven’t looked at since uni. So when we were invited to preview the new Chocolate Cocktail menu at Rivington Grill Shoreditch in association with super-cool...

It's the latest restaurant from the people behind Gymkhana, taking over the space left by Koya. Can Hoppers live up to huge expectations? We find out. 

If this bar shows what the future holds for Londoners - then the news is all good.

This was an instant London hit from the moment it held its star-studded party, but the food at Sexy Fish is worthy of its own space in the spotlight

We pop back to Connaught Village for another new opening - this time it's the very impressive Italian restaurant Bernardi's.

There are many reasons to love autumn: not least the bounty of seasonal produce on offer, from pumpkins to chestnuts. To celebrate - Rivea London, the Alain Ducasse restaurant in the swanky Bulgari Hotel, is putting on a special chestnut themed menu for the next month. It might be a high-end place, but they've kept a sense of humour: every dinner...

The luxury brand Burberry cafe now has a breakfast menu - we went to check it out.

  On a recent brisk Tuesday evening we had the pleasure of test driving Joyeux Bordel cocktail bar. Joyeux Bordel translates in French to ‘happy mess’ and not ‘happy brothel’ as you may perhaps prefer to believe. We left feeling very happy, and thankfully not in a messy state. Joyeux Bordel is the sixth bar from the legendary Experimental Cocktail Club...