Test Drives

We head down to the Longroom at Smithfield to try their salt beef and tosated cheese sandwiches while washing it all down with craft beer.

If you're looking forward to breaking your January detox - we can heartily recommend Opium Chinatown as a good place to start. We visited it on a Thursday night in January (no detox for us) and lived to tell the tale. As our news story on its opening revealed, this is a collaboration between mixologist Dre Masso and the good folk of Dumplings...

Alan Yau comes to Islington with the first outpost of a new chain, modelled after  Bangkok cafes.

Ever since it was revealed that the former Pitt Cue Co chef Neil Rankin was taking over after Ben Spalding's departure at John Salt, anticipation has been slowly building to fever pitch. The menu has been getting everyone VERY excited on Twitter since we revealed it last week, and on Monday we had a chance to properly put it through its paces. We...

This most recent addition to Richard Caring's stable of Mayfair restaurants works like a well oiled machine to keep diners very, very happy..

This new diner has literally risen from the ashes to give Notting Hill residents a taste of a real American diner and mighty sized portions.

The burgeoning Charlotte Street restaurant scene gets an upmarket new spot in the form of the Newman Street Tavern.

Hakkasan, moves east with its new restaurant in the City and we put the 15 course tasting menu to the test.

  When we were invited down to check out the soft launch for Flat Iron Soho we didn’t need to be asked twice. Formerly in existence as a pop up in the Owl and Pussycat pub in Shoreditch, this is the first permanent location from Charlie Carroll, former Operations Advisor at Wahaca, and steak fanatic Still ironing out the creases (geddit?) on our visit,...

We have a look at London's newest ramen joint, Bone Daddies.

Salon is a restaurant we've been keeping close tabs on since we spoke to Head Chef Nicholas Balfe about the opening last month and it immediately struck us as one-to-watch. This weekend we had an opportunity to try out this new restaurant from the ex-Head Chef of much-lauded Bruswick House Cafe and we had a lovely night out there. It was a soft...

The third part of what's being called the Burger Triangle (together with MEATliquor and Tommi's) opens later this week and, if our sneak preview is anything to go by, Patty & Bun sure to be a winner. As we mentioned when we exclusively revealed the news of its opening, this marks the first full time venture of Patty & Bun by Joe Grossman, which has...

We have a look at Dishoom's new East London offering, Dishoom Shoreditch.

We have a look at the latest restaurant to focus mainly on meat, Shoreditch's Beard to Tail.

When chef Mark Poynton announced his three week London pop-up his timing couldn't have been better. Barely 24 hours later, he'd just picked up a Michelin star for his Cambridge restaurant Alimentum. Added to that, he was dropping hints left right and centre about opening somewhere in London. Hot Dinners' interest was duly piqued.We were invited...

This French bistro is the fourth place to be opened by Oli Barker and Ed Wilson - the chaps behind Terroirs, Soif and Brawn. We paid a visit to try it out.

We have a look at the latest restaurant to focus mainly on meat, Shoreditch's Beard to Tail.

The chicken trend extends further into North London with the opening of Chooks. We pop along to see what Muswell Hill's latest opening has to offer.

We head back to Wild Honey to check out the new look and the working lunch.

Hawksmoor have long been seen as the purveyors of some of the best steaks in London. We find out what happens when they add seafood, courtesy of Mitch Tonks, to the menu.