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26/8/21 - updated with all the burger details It's so nice to see the big food events coming back to life, isn't it? After last year's craziness, one of our favourites - the National Burger Day...

  Until now they've been popping up across town, including their current residency at Gunmakers in Clerkenwell, but now Tigre Tacos have found a permanent home. They'll be settling in upstairs at...

Canada’s food scene is coming to London, specifically to Parsons Green. West 4th, named after Vancouver's West 4th Avenue, will be a brunch restaurant by day and a wine bar by night. 

Newly open in Ealing is TânVân Viet Eatery - an independent, family-run Vietnamese restaurant and cocktail bar. This is a new venture for sisters Erika, Elysia and Eva, but they've grown up around...

There was much consternation earlier this year when the news broke that Soho legendary Italian Vasco and Piero's Pavilion was to shut because of rent issues. But we then learned pretty quickly from an...

London's restaurant scene just got a whole lot brighter with the arrival of this gorgeous new restaurant and bar from a Latin American powerhouse team. We went along to marvel at it all. 

In a real life homage to Parks and Recreation's Lil' Sebastian, The Goring has only gone and got itself a little old Shetland Pony for the summer. Teddy belongs to the Goring family who run the...

Gino d'Acampo's new London restaurant Luciano may have been eviscerated in a review by the Evening Standard, but a new video on TikTok could change the restaurant's fortunes. Kiwi songwriter Natalie Te...

He got to the final of MasterChef The Professionals last year, and now chef Santosh Shah is launching a Nepalese pop-up at his old stomping ground, Cinnamon Kitchen City (he was Head Chef there). Running...

Hackney Week residents looking for somewhere locally to buy groceries and household goods that are ethical and sustainable now have a new place to shop. Tuck Shop, which opened its doors last...

  There's no getting past the fact that poke bowls have become a thing in London of late. Creams Cafe have clearly noted that as well - however, they seem to have (deliberately) misread the brief. So...

After being moved on from Portobello (only after he'd made a dormant site successful again), Stevie Parle has brought back Joy, this time to Marylebone in a new guise.  Joy is now going to be both a...

As long time readers of Hot Dinners will be aware, there's nothing we like more than an expertly prepared martini. Over the boring days of lockdown, we kept our spirits up with the promise of...

Much-lauded Spanish chef Dani Garcia has picked Shoreditch as the site of his first London restaurant. We went along to see if the Bibo concept has survived the journey. 

  Londoners have put up with a lack of loo roll and a paucity of pasta in the shops on and off over the past year or so, but will the closing of Nando's be the thing that really brings home the...

They've popped up at the pub before in the guise of Ground Burger, and now The Ethical Butcher is back for a full residency at The Spurstowe Arms in Hackney.  The Ethical Butcher, as the name gives...

Things must be starting to get back to normal if we're talking about food halls opening in London. While some, like Arcade and Market Hall West End were initially victims of the lockdowns (returning in new...

Chef Sven Hanson Britt (recently seen at Homestead) is bringing his restaurant Oxeye to life, which has previously run as a residency at Carousel.  It's coming to Embassy Gardens in Nine Elms (where...

Park Row is a huge, immersive Batman-themed restaurant in London. But what's it like? We popped along to find out. 

   For the second year in the row Mark Birchall's Moor Hall has come in at number one on the National Restaurant Awards top 100 UK restaurants list. The list, which took  a break last year due to the...