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London chef dies, family blames long working hours

Information: 27 March 2010

London restaurant news round-up Restaurant industry hours challengedThe parents of a London chef who died this week of complications following a bout of tonsillitis blamed the long hours he was...

Heston gets £200k comp over Fat Duck closure

Information: 22 March 2010

Heston Blumenthal has received just over £200,000 in compensation following the temporary closure of the Fat Duck for two weeks last year. That’s good news for Heston, but according to the Daily...

Bar Pepito opens its doors in King's Cross

Information: 19 March 2010

To King’s Cross recently, where the owner of Camino has extended across the courtyard at the Regent Quarter to open up an Andalusian bodega/sherry bar called Bar Pepito. Every conceivable kind of...

Lunch with Simon Parker Bowles

Information: 18 March 2010

The restaurateur behind Green's in Mayfair and the City tells us what he thinks of restaurant reviewers, how London restaurant fashions have changed over the decades and why he’s not impressed with...

Eating out at Viet Grill

Information: 17 March 2010

It's already touted as the kind of place other chefs love to eat, with Mark Hix being a particular fan, so when Hot Dinners was invited down to try out the recently revamped Viet Grill earlier this...

Taste of London Festival 2010 restaurants revealed

Information: 16 March 2010

Tickets for the Taste of London festival go on sale today and we can reveal the restaurants who've already signed up for this summer's event: Almeida & Restaurant SauterelleL'AnimaAsia de...

Kristen Stewart defends London’s restaurants

Information: 14 March 2010

Twilight star Kristen Stewart made her debut appearance on America’s Jay Leno show this week and much of the chat was about her recent trip to London. Leno, a known foodie, wondered what Kristen...

Gordon Ramsay on Petrus, Marcus and lazy Parisians

Information: 14 March 2010

Great interview with El Gordo in today's Observer Food Monthly in which Gordon and interviewer Simon Garfield go over a number of knotty issues that have beset Ramsay over the last year or so...

La Dolce Vita Festival - the best of Italy in Islington

Information: 13 March 2010

To Islington this weekend, just a hop skip and a jump away from Hot Dinners HQ to La Dolce Vita Festival of Italian food and wine at the Business Design Centre. Lucky old us had a guided tour around...

Gordon Ramsay on why Claridges lost its Michelin star

Information: 11 March 2010

Gordon Ramsay was in Qatar this week to open a branch of maze at the Pearl-Qatar, the first maze to be opened outside a hotel. The Gulf Times caught up with him to find Ramsay uncharacteristically...

One of the best value wine pairing dinners in London?

Information: 09 March 2010

Hot Dinners was recently invited to try out Dinner with Jordi – one of a new series of private dinners with wine-pairing at Vivat Bacchus in Farringdon. The Jordi in question is the Barcelona-born...

London Restaurant Festival dates announced for 2010

Information: 08 March 2010

The dates for the second London Restaurant Festival have just been announced. This year’s festival will run from 4-18 October 2010. ‘Our passionate commitment to encourage as many restaurants as...

London's burgers and a Clerkenwell pop-up

Information: 05 March 2010

This week Twitter has been groaning with critics and bloggers being very gloomy indeed about the state of London’s burger joints. But lo – there is light on the horizon with news in this week’s Time...

The Gospel According to Mark Hix

Information: 04 March 2010

On the eve of the opening of his new restaurant at Selfridges, Hot Dinners talks to golden boy Mark Hix, currently the darling of the London restaurant scene

Finalists for 2010 Restaurant and Bar Design Awards announced

Information: 02 March 2010

The finalists for this year’s Restaurant and Bar Design Awards have just been announced and London has no less than 27 venues in the shortlist. They are as follows: Independent Restaurant – Tom’s...

Rose Gray co-founder of London's River Cafe dies

Information: 28 February 2010

Rose Gray, the co-founder of River Cafe died today (Sunday 28 February). Rose, who had twice undergone treatment for breast cancer, founded the River Cafe with Ruth Rogers (pictured here to the left...

Cipriani London restaurant loses battle to keep its name

Information: 24 February 2010

The Cipriani London restaurant has lost its battle to keep its name in a court case ruled on today in the Court of Appeal. The restaurant's owner, Giuseppe Cipriani, grandson of the man who founded...

London restaurants fail to make tourist award shortlist

Information: 23 February 2010

Alain Ducasse may reckon that ‘London is the most important city in the world for restaurants’, but it seems the people marketing us to tourists don’t agree. The English tourist board today...

Albert Roux: It's easy reducing Ramsay to tears

Information: 22 February 2010

News round-up Gordon Ramsay is better known for reducing restaurateurs who don’t come up to scratch in Kitchen Nightmares to floods of tears, but according to fellow chef Albert Roux, it’s as easy...

El Bulli will still serve food when it reopens in 2014

Information: 22 February 2010

It was already the hardest restaurant in the world to get a table at, now Ferran Adria has revealed a new exquisite variation to the torture. In a press release put out by El Bulli today, Adria has...

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