News & reviews

It’s the weather for their outrageously oozy cheese toasties, so here’s a particularly good reason to head to Kensal Rise: Morty & Bob’s are opening an all-day restaurant, café and bar in the...

We don’t often get to say Paris’ loss is London’s gain, but with the news that Taku Mayfair has opened, we can. Chef Takuya Watanabe, the man behind Jin, the first sushi Omakase restaurant in Paris to...

La Rampa brings a Cuban flavour to Oxford Circus with their unique take on Cuban food classics and cocktails - plus lots of rum... 

This new bar at this Whitehall hotel showcases the many talents of top mixologist Salvatore Calabrese. We popped in for a tipple or two.

Given the current cost of living crisis we're all for a new wine bar that's bringing down the cost of drinking good wine.

In the same month we lost one of London's oldest restaurants (fingers crossed that's only temporary) it's good to hear that another of London's eighteenth century hostelries is being resurrected. The...

Updated 16/11/22 with soft launch info Back in summer, we had the pleasure of trying out Robin Gill's new restaurant Maria G's in Kensington. There, the restaurant's Exec Chef Aaron Potter was...

Depressing news from Margate. When we visited there this summer, a highlight of our trip was dinner at Barletta right on the seafront. Today it transpires that the owners, Natalia Ribbe and Jackson Berg...

A Hot Dinners exclusive A duo of hospitality folk are behind a new bar opening in London that's been inspired by the backstreet bars in Spain and Italy. Billed as a London aperitivo bar, Deep Cuts is...

Kensington locals' pub options just got more interesting with the arrival of The Holland. We went to check it out. 

15/11/22 - Hicce Hart is now open Good news for North London, with a second outlet of Hicce due to open. Called Hicce Hart, it will take up the site most recently occupied by the Day & Night pub in...

Grab your handbags, Harrods is bringing the best of fashion and food together, with a gingerbread-themed Café Dior opening on its ground floor for a limited time. Yes, the department store that...

  Somewhat out of nowhere, a brand new STK steakhouse has arrived in London. It's the latest opening that's part of The Gantry Hotel in Stratford, which already has Hermano coffee bar, Union Social,...

Marylebone is getting a new gastropub within one of its historic hotels, with the news that The Landmark London is opening the Great Central Pub by Matt Fletcher. While you’ll find comforting pub...

South London's plant-based group En Root is heading to Brixton. The brainchild of South Londoners Nish Modasia and his cousin Harshil Modasia, who also have places in Peckham and Clapham, the new...

Dalston is getting a brand new bakery as Francesca Strange's The Proof has found a permanent home there for a bakery, coffee shop and dessert bar.  A self-taught baker, The Proof has been delivering...

We're very big fans of pate en croute here at Hot Dinners, so news of the return of Maison Francois' Croute Off has cheered us immensely. Just as you'd expect, it has some of London's best...

11/11/22 - Updated with the opening date With the opening of London’s first art’otel comes details of what one of the restaurants will be in the hotel's Battersea Power Station site, and it’s good...

  They've launched clothing and hotel rooms and next up for KFC is a pub.  As part of the World Cup, they're launching The Colonel's Arms in Hammersmith a pub that yes, will be serving KFC - sort of...

This new Smithfield restaurant wants to give London diners a real experience for their money. We went to see how that plays out in reality.