News & reviews

29/4/25 - updated with the opening date As longstanding Hot Dinners readers should know, we do love a good wine bar. So we're very interested in combo wine bar and French restaurant Marjorie's which is...

There have been some very interesting developments in Stratford recently and the good news is that there are more to come next year. The team behind Jikoni in Marylebone, Ravinder Bhogal and Nadeem...

Finding your way to viral sandwich shop Rogue Sarnies always felt like discovering a real hidden gem. Tucked down a cobbled alley in Bethnal Green, it still managed to sell out of its woodfired...

For his next restaurant, the man behind Gunpowder, Harneet Baweja, is heading in a new direction. This time he's launching a Thai fried chicken restaurant in Spitalfields Market. Fortune Fried...

They're currently No 43 on the Best Pizzas in Europe list (excluding Italy), and now Peckham's 081 are expanding. They're about to open their second pizzeria, this time in Shoreditch. Taking over...

12/3/24 - updated with the opening date They only launched their first London sandwich shop last year, but Sandwich Sandwich already have their next place ready to go. And this time they're going...

Marking the official start of the warm-up towards St Patrick's Day in London, we celebrated the launch of our 11th Murphia List, in partnership with Bord Bia, with one hell of a party last night. We...

Last year, eagle-eyed fans of North London cafe group Fink's spotted that they'd taken over a cafe site on Blackstock Road. However, dreams of a new space to sit in were dashed when they revealed...

Updated 10/3/25 with food trader info What do you get when you combine the creative forces behind huge music venues like Printworks and The Drumsheds with the team responsible for all the Kerb...

7/3/25 - updated with the opening date Noodle Inn may be the place everyone's currently queueing for, but it might soon have some competition coming its way. Noodle & Beer first opened in...

We're impressed by the perfect timing behind the new Guinness pop-up experience that's coming to The Ned. On for three months, they've chosen the perfect time of year to launch it, just in time for St...

London's pub scene is thriving in 2025 and this latest news from Islington is very good indeed. If you're a north Londoner you'll probably know of The Southampton Arms in Kentish Town. It's a...

From Dom's Subs to Sandwich Sandwich, London's sandwich game is getting better all the time and now a new contender is incoming. My Favourite Sandwich comes from Ross Clarke Collective (led by a...

Doing something different in the UK restaurant scene is hard. Breaking into it with what looks like no big backing or tonnes of marketing spend is even harder but one new London restaurant is doing just...

South Kensington does very well for classic restaurants like Ognisko and Daquise, but it hasn't been somewhere you'd cross town for to eat for quite some time. That makes the arrival of The Lavery...