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Astrid Bakery prepares for expansion in Muswell Hill

Information: 24 September 2024

A Hot Dinners exclusive If you're a resident of Muswell Hill you can't have failed to notice the perma queues outside Astrid Bakery. Six months after the bakery opened it continued to sell out every...

The Red Lion & Sun is selling Pol Roger in tankards, just like Churchill used to drink it

Information: 24 September 2024

Champagne flutes and saucers are so yesterday. As of this week, one of North London's loveliest pubs is serving a very special Champagne in tankards instead. As The Red Lion and Sun's publican Heath...

Bar crawl: rainwater martinis and glorious London views at The Emory rooftop bar

Information: 20 September 2024

One of the world's best bars is popping up for a month at The Emory in Knightsbridge. We went to check out Tato Giovannoni's cocktails and bar food at their rooftop bar.

Pario pops up in the old Pharmacy 2 restaurant space at Damien Hirst's Vauxhall gallery

Information: 20 September 2024

A Hot Dinners exclusive It's been almost three years since the Mark Hix restaurant, Pharmacy 2, closed its doors at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall. But now we bring you news of...

Eastern-Med-inspired Claro comes to London

Information: 20 September 2024

A new Eastern Med restaurant is coming to London, this one having originally started in Tel Aviv. The London version of Claro is landing in St James, opening in the building that once held...

Japan House is putting on Looks Delicious! a food replica exhibition

Information: 20 September 2024

If you've ever been to Japan and seen the superb food replica dishes they have in front of restaurants there, you'll know just how amazingly realistic they can be. Now Londoners are going to get a...

Fantomas sees ex-Fiend chef Chris Denney join the Wild team in Chelsea

Information: 19 September 2024

19/9/24 - Updated with lots more detail about what to expect Restaurant duo George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev appear to be vying for the title of busiest restaurateurs in London. Having only...

AngloThai to open their first restaurant in Marylebone

Information: 19 September 2024

Updated 19/9/24 with full opening details After years of popping up at various places across London, the first AngloThai restaurant from John and Desiree Chantarasak is very nearly here. They...

Test Driving Sol's - a cool new wine bar for Bayswater

Information: 19 September 2024

The arrival of Sol's in Bayswater is the latest interesting opening for the area. We went down to see what this deli by day, wine bar by night had to offer.

Pasta Evangelists in Greenwich are giving away free wine to customers

Information: 18 September 2024

You'll probably be aware of them as a pasta delivery service. But fresh pasta company Pasta Evangelists are also getting into the London restaurant game. First, they teamed up with Michelin-starred chef Giancarlo...

Three London hotels make the World's 50 Best Hotels 2024 list

Information: 18 September 2024

Right now London appears to be having a moment when it comes to luxury hotels. Over the past year or so we've had a slew of high end establishments opening their doors to guests including the...

Viral Basque cheesecake folk La Maritxu are heading to Carnaby

Information: 17 September 2024

I think we can safely say that anyone opening a Basque cheesecake shop in London right now is on to a good thing. Certainly, that was the experience of La Maritxu which went down a storm with its...

Test Driving Mary's - Jason Atherton's Pollen Street grill revamp

Information: 17 September 2024

Part of Jason Atherton's very busy 2024 has been replacing Pollen Street Social with Mary's, a much more laid-back grill restaurant. We went down to check out all the changes.

Conchita's Mexican Kitchen will serve up breakfast burritos and tacos in Selfridges Food Hall

Information: 17 September 2024

A Mexican salsa business, founded on a grandmother's amazing recipes, is gearing up for its first big London opening. Conchita's Mexican Kitchen has been popping up in food halls and residencies...

Brad Carter is no longer opening Undercroft

Information: 16 September 2024

We'd been hearing talk behind the scenes for a few days that not all was well with the opening of Undercroft. It was due to be top Birmingham chef Brad Carter's London debut but now he's announced that...

Noodle Inn draws the crowds in Soho with its hand-pulled noodles

Information: 16 September 2024

If you've been wandering around Soho over the past week or so, you may have wondered what's been drawing crowds down Old Compton Street. Well, we're here to tell you about London's new white hot...

Moi et Toi is a London meets Paris bakery opening up in Notting Hill's Empire Empire

Information: 13 September 2024

Now this is a clever idea. If your restaurant is more of a dinner place but you want to make the space pay for itself during the day, then why not team up with a cafe/bakery? That's what Empire...

Lil' Nashville are taking line dancing and Southern BBQ to Chiswick

Information: 13 September 2024

A Hot Dinners exclusive It may not seem like the most likely place to open up a honky tonk bar, but Chiswick folk will need to slap on a stetson and find their cowboy boots when Lil' Nashville...

Phil Howard brings in big-name chefs for a series of Elystan Street dinners

Information: 12 September 2024

You may have come across the expression "four hands" dinner before. Essentially it's a rather cheffy way of talking about a team-up between two chefs. That's exactly what Phil Howard is planning at...

Test Driving Leydi - Selin Kiazim's new modern Turkish restaurant in the City

Information: 12 September 2024

Selin Kiazim (previously behind Oklava) returns to the London restaurant scene with a large Turkish restaurant right in the heart of the City. We went down for a first look at Leydi.

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