News & reviews

The Connaught has a new townhouse which the martini trolley will visit

Information: 18 October 2018

We're sure there are plenty of high net work travellers who'll be most impressed by the baby grand piano or the Mark Newson pedestal for Taschen books in The Connaught's new townhouse. Us? It's all...

La Barra is serving up tacos and cocktails on Brixton's Market Row

Information: 17 October 2018

This Market Row spot is the first bricks and mortar space for Joshua Whiting - one half of popular quesadilla team Killa Dilla - and he's planning slow roast meat tacos and pre-batched cocktails for...

Ex-Babbo Head Chef to open Xier in Marylebone

Information: 17 October 2018

Carlo Scotto's first solo venture, on Thayer Street, will be a two tiered affair with a casual ground floor space XR and then a first floor fine dining experience Xier with a tasting menu.

Tamarind Mayfair prepares to reopen with Amaya and Chutney Mary head chefs on board

Information: 17 October 2018

So there was us thinking that London's Indian restaurant scene was at peak excitement with the opening this Autumn of Kahani, Kricket White City and the new Gunpowder at Tower Bridge not to mention the...

Roe opens in Pop Brixton - with seafood and an Irish influence

Information: 17 October 2018

Simon Whiteside originally opened Hook in Camden and now he's bringing his seafood expertise to Pop Brixton with his own restaurant, Roe. Expect sustainable seafood on an ever-changing menu that...

The five-storey Onima is coming to Mayfair and hoping to bring a little of Mykonos with it

Information: 17 October 2018

This Mykonos-inspired restaurant is a five-storey affair in Mayfair, mixing restaurant, bar and private club. And it has what sounds like a pretty great roof terrace too.

Two new Chinatown restaurants JinLi and Shanghai Modern announced for the Central Cross development

Information: 16 October 2018

A modern Sichuan and a Shanghai noodle and dumpling offering will be the first two restaurants to open in Chinatown's new Central Cross development.

LINO sees the former head chef of The Dairy take on an all day restaurant and cocktail bar by Smithfield

Information: 16 October 2018

With the former head chef of The Dairy heading up the kitchen team, this new all day restaurant and cocktail bar in the City looks worth checking out.

Test Driving Two Lights - the new Modern American restaurant in Shoreditch from the Clove Club team

Information: 15 October 2018

Obviously, any new opening by the Clove Club team is going to whip London's foodies into a frenzy of excitement - happily the restaurant is cool enough to cope with (and meet) those expectations.

André Garrett will be the new executive chef at Corinthia Hotel London taking over The Northall

Information: 15 October 2018

André Garrett moves back to London from Cliveden - taking on everything at Corinthia Hotel London that isn't Tom Kerridge's restaurant and bar.

Chelsea's Comptoir Poilane signs up London chefs for a month-long tartine fest

Information: 15 October 2018

Kicking off today is a Franco-British collaboration which is the very best of both countrys. Sourdough bakery Poilâne have teamed up with some of London's best chefs to sell seasonal tartines (open...

Motley in Whitechapel has an eco-conscious menu and a cracking cocktail list

Information: 12 October 2018

An eco-conscious menu with a ‘Waste Not’ section that uses leftovers

Wild Food Cafe is bringing its vegan delights to Islington's Upper Street

Information: 12 October 2018

Plant-based menus and vegan pizzas will feature at this new Islington outpost

Burger and Lobster are serving up a caviar and lobster dinner in a gold four poster bed. For real.

Information: 11 October 2018

Sometimes we get a press release here at Hot Dinners where the only correct response is "I can't even...". That's firmly the category into which today's story from Burger & Lobster falls. They've installed...

Test Driving Rambla's new Menu del Dia

Information: 11 October 2018

Who doesn't love a cracking set lunch deal? Right now it seems one of the top spots for doing just that in Soho is Rambla. Having heard that they had a new Menu del Dia in place - and it being a...

Daylesford are opening a huge new farmshop and all day cafe in Brompton Cross

Information: 11 October 2018

If you sometimes like to pretend that you live in bucolic Oxfordshire rather than a studio in Peckham or semi in Southgate, then the opening of this huge new Daylesford farmshop with an all day...

Here are all the London Tastemakers on this year's Evening Standard Progress 1000 List

Information: 11 October 2018

Last night, the Evening Standard dropped its annual Progress 1000 list - its roundup of the most influential people in London - at a glitzy party in newly refurbed Leake Street Arches. While the...

Gridiron grill room is taking over the old Met Bar on Park Lane with a restaurant A-Team

Information: 11 October 2018

(Updated 11/10/18 with more images and interviews) There's a wealth of talent behind this modern grill room opening up on Park Lane - with Hawksmoor's Richard Turner and wine writer Fiona Beckett on the...

Test Driving Jolene - three is the magic number for this Newington Green restaurant

Information: 11 October 2018

They already have two very successful restaurants, but Jolene, the new bakery-restaurant from the team behind Primeur and Westerns Laundry, shows the team are getting even better at what they do.