News & reviews

21/10/22 - opening date added Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year. Saltie...

We head for a dinner at The English Grill at Rubens at the Palace of British dishes with a modern twist - and a lot of tableside theatre.

"We should have been open months ago," says Maresco's owner Stephen Lironi in the bright but slightly punchdrunk way of anyone trying to open a restaurant in London in the current climate...

19/10/22 - Updated with news of the opening and what's on the menu Have you moved somewhere in London and thought it could really do with a few more restaurants? Well, you could do what Genevieve...

Just a few short months after opening his first branch of Miznon in London, Tel Aviv chef Eyal Shani is heading across town to work on a kiosk version of Miznon for West Londoners. Described as a...

Here's a pop-up for the diary. Lee Tiernan's FKABAM (Formerly Known As Black Axe Mangal) is teaming up with Tabasco for a special pop-up pizzeria.  Taking place at the Islington restaurant, it'll...

If you’ve been looking for somewhere new to dine while waiting for a delayed train at King’s Cross, then the answer is here: RAILS. It’s the relaunch of former Plum + Spilt Milk, the restaurant...

Updated 20/10/22 with opening date Before he launched Sam's Riverside in Hammersmith, Sam Harrison ran Sam's Brasserie in Chiswick for 10 years. Well, now he's back in Chiswick - albeit in a...

Skulking around Hackney and feeling a bit peckish? Then let us nudge you in the direction of Eline, a new restaurant not far from Hoxton Overground Station. Named after the grandmother of co-founder and...

19/10/22 - updated with the opening date One reason to go underground this year is the news that the vaults of London’s historical Royal Exchange will be transformed into The Libertine, a drinking and...

Things aren't looking so great for London diners, according to the Good Food Guide. As the first guide to be published in two years was launched in a party last night (in London) it transpired that not...

19/9/22 - updated with images and menus If Mayfair wasn’t already buzzing with forthcoming new restaurant openings, here is news of another. This time it’s by way of Los Angeles as well as the...

A Hot Dinners exclusive If you’ve not travelled to Armenia lately (quite frankly, that’s probably a lot of us) then your palate will soon be able to take a trip there, thanks to Lusin restaurant,...

The latest addition to Mayfair's pub dining scene has arrived with a very clubby dining room and plenty of theatrical flourishes.

Agave cocktail fans will have a new reason to get excited about Notting Hill, with the news of Viajante87’s opening. It’s a cocktail bar from the founders of Los Mochis, who have not been shy with...

  So the final piece of the redevelopment at Battersea is now in place - Battersea Power Station itself has now reopened. And that means there are LOTS of new places to eat in the area.  Here's what's...

You may have spotted their stall at the occasional market in Coal Drops Yard. Now doughnut folk Longboys are getting ready to open their biggest store and cafe there. Former Hakkasan pastry chef...

After three barren years, the great and good of the food world returned to the Freemasons Hall in central London for the return of the Observer Food Monthly Awards for the first time since the...

They moved from pop-up to permanent restaurant in Dalston and now Supa Ya Ramen are getting ready to open their second place, this time in Peckham.  Luke Findlay’s ramen bar specialises in what he...

What’s just as good as a restaurant on a barge? A cocktail bar on a barge next to it. That’s right, the people who brought you this summer’s floating restaurant hit Caravel are putting the bar into...