News & reviews

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...

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...

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...

Starter for 10: Critics vs chefs at Vinopolis

Information: 10 October 2009

Hot Dinners rounded up yesterday’s coverage of London Restaurant Festival events at the Starter for Ten Quiz at Vinopolis which pitted critics against chefs. In the quizmaster’s chair was none other...

Pierre Koffmann's Selfridge's pop-up restaurant launches

Information: 09 October 2009

Hot Dinners reports back from lunch at Pierre Koffmann's pop-up reincarnation of Tante Claire, high on the rooftop of London's Selfridges store.

Quaglino's hosts London Restaurant Festival opening party

Information: 08 October 2009

The first London Restaurant Festival opened in style last night with a glitzy party at London’s revamped Quaglino’s restaurant, hosted by Vanity Fair. Chefs and celebs were in attendance – as were...

Chocoholic dinner at the May Fair hotel opens for booking

Information: 06 October 2009

Hard on the heels of the London Restaurant Festival comes Chocolate Week (hoorah!). So put off that pre-Christmas diet a moment longer, and book yourself in for a divinely decadent chocolate dinner...

Five minutes with Tom Peake, gastropub owner

Information: 03 October 2009

Hot Dinners caught up recently with Renaissance Pubs’ Tom Peake at the reopening of the group’s Abbeville gastropub in Clapham to discover a few cunning tricks to think of if you’re considering...

Aqua opening, influential restaurateurs and more news...

Information: 02 October 2009

Brushing aside worries about the recession, three Soho restaurants launched last week: Aqua, Polpo and Hix. Polpo, a Venetian Bacaro, has had promising early reviews and seems primed to become a...

The Ambitious Man – Hot Dinners talks to Marcus Wareing

Information: 29 September 2009

Hot Dinners catches up with Marcus Wareing to discuss awards, ambition and that spat with Gordon Ramsay.

Marcus Wareing scoops AA Top Chef Award

Information: 29 September 2009

Marcus Wareing has capped off a spectacular year by winning the Chef's Chef of the Year Award at this year's 2010 AA Hospitality Awards. The AA award, 'the icing on the cake' as Wareing told Hot...

The Ivy takes a London Eye capsule at the London Restaurant Festival

Information: 28 September 2009

Celeb haunt and general impossible-to-get-a-reservation-if-you're-not-Simon-Cowell restaurant, The Ivy, has just announced it's going to take on a capsule on the London Eye over the London...

Another River Cafe restaurant is planned for London

Information: 25 September 2009

The biggest recent restaurant news is that Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray of the River Cafe, one of the places most often cited by critics as their favourite place to eat in London, are seriously...

Five minutes with Richard Corrigan

Information: 24 September 2009

Hot Dinners catches five minutes with Richard Corrigan to find out how he's survived the last 12 months, opening two key new restaurants in the middle of a recession.

Eating with London's top chefs on the London Eye

Information: 15 September 2009

The London Restaurant Festival has announced the full line-up of chefs cooking on capsules on the London Eye over the course of the London Restaurant festival. They are as follows: 8 October:...

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