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18/5/25 - updated with the opening date After decades spent as a standalone store in Soho selling fresh pasta and Parma ham to Londoners, it's fair to say that Lina Stores is now a fully-fledged...

Promoted content Crosta Mollica already have quite the reputation for their excellent ready-made pizza bases. If you haven't already cottoned on to them as a great home pizza option, now you can...

One of the biggest draws of Claude Bosi's two-Michelin-starred Brooklands is the fantastic terrace, one of the best rooftop dining spaces in London. However, the stunning terrace perhaps isn't the...

It's been a while since we reported on chef Rob Roy Cameron. Back in 2017 and 2018, he worked on two projects with mixologist Tony Conigliaro, Untitled in Dalston and Gazelle in Mayfair. And the...

Caffe Dante has had quite a history in New York, having originally been established back in 1915. However, its current iteration launched as Dante back in 2015, and the restaurant and  bar have since...

Any London closures are a bad thing, so we're delighted to bring you news this morning of a reopening in Walthamstow. It's been a few months since Eat 17 in Walthamstow closed their restaurant. But the...

Two people who used to work at Leroy have taken over their former workplace and relaunched it as a new restaurant, inspired by the French/Italian Duchy of Savoy. We went down to see just how much...

Every now and again, we can trust the marketing bods at KFC to have the absolute barmiest idea, and we thank them for that. Last Christmas, it was all about lickable wrapping paper, and now it's...

As far as we're concerned, there's always room for more places to sit and recover from a massive shopping expedition when you're on Oxford Street. So the arrival of Noreen to St Christopher's Place this...

Holborn office folk working from home on Friday may have missed the news in the Standard that a new spin-off restaurant of Dumplings' Legend was coming their way. But they'll need to get up to speed...

In a blow for Peckham and Nunhead foodies, the pair behind all the Kudu restaurants and bars in the area - Kudu, Kudu Grill and Curious Kudu are moving the business to Marylebone. Amy Corbin and...

11/5/25 - updated with the opening date A week ago the Brindisa spin-off Bar Kroketa started teasing its followers on Insta with the promise of a third restaurant. Now they've revealed that they're...

We were sad to see Patron leave our own local neighbourhood of Finsbury Park last year (which was out of their hands) so now we're very jealous of those living in West Hampstead as they're about to...

An eagle-eyed Hot Dinners reader got in touch this week, pointing out that changes seemed to be afoot on St John Street. On closer inspection, it looked as though someone was moving into the old The...

We get our fair share of releases about restaurants doing chef takeovers, four-handers and other partnerships. And we get it - they're a great idea to highlight the talent in London's restaurants,...

The Black Cow is something that first opened in Camden's big Hawley Wharf development, but now the Middle Eastern steakhouse is moving to Shoreditch. It's from Shiri Kraus and Amir Batito, whose...

Tokyo-born mixologist Gento Torigata travelled across the globe working in bars from Ginza to Sydney and Singapore before landing in the UK. Most recently he was bar manager at the fabulous Kwãnt in...

A second Pizza Pilgrims is on the way to Shoreditch, this time opening on Brick Lane opening as part of the Truman Brewery. If you've been to a Pizza Pilgrims before, you'll know what to expect:...