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The Connaught Grill may have originally opened two years ago, but few Londoners will have had a chance to dine there given that lockdown began just weeks after the newest restaurant at The Connaught had...

  They have a couple of cafes across London - at Lavender Hill and Crane's Kitchen in Peckham - and now Social Pantry are coming to Chelsea Harbour for their first full-blown restaurant.  They're teaming up...

London's run of fancy new hotels is continuing apace. Alongside One Hundred Shoreditch, there are also big plans for Admiralty Arch, The Old War Office and more. Now a new-ish Mayfair hotel is...

28/2/22 - Updated with more info and the opening date Here at Hot Dinners, we've long been fans of the Holloway Road cheese and wine shop Provisions, which kept us well supplied in pâté and Dusty...

  2/3/22 - updated with more opening details We've already had Six by Nico and the upcoming Mowgli, now another out-of-town restaurant group is looking to make a stamp on London.  This time it's Tattu,...

  28/2/22 - Updated with the opening date and menu details Recently Ben Tish left his Fitzrovia restaurant Norma and joined up with pub group Cubitt House to completely revamp their food offering (in a...

The latest celeb to get into the food game is rapper Tinie Tempah. While you may immediately think "it's going to be something to do with tempeh, isn't it?" it is, in fact, a new fried chicken...

25/2/22 - updated with launch details Flesh & Buns are heading west for their third restaurant, opening up their latest just off High Street Kensington. Taking over what was previously Sticky...

25/2/22 - updated with the opening date There have been rumblings for some time that top chef Nuno Mendes was fully returning to the London restaurant scene. Since leaving his previous Shoreditch...

If the source of your happiness lies in eating the perfect fried chicken sandwich and you live in West London we bring you joyful - if waistline-thickening - good news. Butchies are heading your way...

While there's already Decimo up on the tenth floor of The Standard hotel in King's Cross, they're about to get a neighbour up on the same floor with the launch of the hotel's new cocktail bar -...

Over the years of its redevelopment we've written a number of stories about restaurants, cafes and bars opening in the vicinity of Battersea Power Station. Now it's the turn of the building itself...

The new Blacklock in Covent Garden is the popular chop shop's biggest restaurant yet. We went down to check it out.

We're quietly excited about the upcoming all day restaurant that's part of The Twenty Two opening on Grosvenor Square. There hasn't been a lot revealed so far but it does see a reunion on two chefs that...

We do like a floating restaurant (the Cheese Barge is a thing of wonder) and this latest restaurant on the water sounds like another very promising addition to Regents Canal. Caravel comes from...

A Hot Dinners exclusive Ever since the various lockdowns, London's neighbourhood restaurant scene has been seeing some really interesting openings. Now we're hearing about a new place in Crystal...

If you're a fan of Wagamama but not such a fan of the queues you always find there, then learning that they've got a new delivery option may be of interest to you. Hoping to entice those working...

After success in Soho, restaurateur Kurt Zdesar is getting ready to open a second Chotto Matte in London - this time in Marylebone (taking over from where Fucina used to be). That makes it the...

Vegan restaurant Mao Chow has come to an end - but Facing Heaven is rising to take its place. Julian Denis, the man behind Mao Chow, has closed that restaurant in Hackney but is opening just around the...

Updated 18/2/22 with opening date London's next big food and drink development to watch is definitely Borough Yards. We already know that Barrafina, Butchies and Vinoteca will be opening new...