News & reviews

It's the guide people profess not to care about, but then why is everyone talking about it...?

Traditionally, deep fried carbs are the mainstay of Irish pub grub. Not so at Mc & Sons, who's Chiang Mai head chef will be cooking up heavily spiced traditional Thai food - perfect to accompany...

Pied a Terre's GM heads out on his own with this neighbourhood spot where it's all about ultra personal treatment and giving the customer what they really want

We do love putting our April Fools together here at Hot Dinners, but even we don't expect for them to come true. However that's exactly what appears to have happened today. Alerted by a reader who...

Ahead of the announcement of newly Michelin-starred restaurants on Monday, the Michelin Guide has been busy today announcing new Bib Gourmands on Twitter. We think they've finished announcing the...

Winter. It's cold, dark, and unavoidably depressing. So, what to do? Well, Oxford Street's new winter pop-up Woody Bear has a few suggestions, mainly in the form of melted cheese and booze. The new...

Caprice Holdings are at it again with yet another new opening. This time around, it's a loosely 50's/60's Italian themed bar and restaurant with its own terrace.

With help from Franco Casolin, formerly of famous veggie Vanilla Blacks, Wulf & Lamb is bringing creative vegan cuisine to Sloane Square, where ackee fruit meets burritos and Ruby's of London...

In the relatively un-gentrified world of Seven Sisters, there's precious little in the way of new openings. But now, Torshi's shown up in new warehouse venue Five Miles to change that, with its...

  Following on from our story about Giles Coren's visit to East London restaurant The Frog this week, and subsequent social media fail, Twitter continued to debate the topic. It was all kicked off by...

It's good news for North Londoners today as JKS Restaurants (the family behind Gymkhana and Trishna, among others) has just said it'll be opening two new Motu Indian Kitchen sites this autumn, in...

This October will see the official opening of The Racketeer, a new cocktail bar / wine shop in Kings Cross. The pub, which was once The Carpenters Arms, has been given a revamp and restored to its...

We get a first look inside the new restaurant from the folk behind Gunpowder and Madame D

Wilton's is London's oldest restaurant but does it offer London's diners anything new? We went to find out

Updated with restaurant review by Giles It feels like only yesterday that Instagram was the kind of place where nothing bad happened. Here was a social media platform far removed from the nastiness of...

Inside Shoreditch's giant M by Montcalm hotel (the one with the optical illusion windows - you know what we mean), there's a new restaurant by the name of PLATE from very well-connected chef Arnaud...

Halloween and the Day of the Dead are almost upon us, so expect London's restaurants and bars to go all out to entice you through their doors over the coming period. But one place has already set...

Thirsty City workers can avail of a hefty wine list at Vinoteca’s newest location, nestled between the two Bloomberg buildings. There’ll be a central bar, a mezzanine, and even the option to wine...

The annual AA 2017 Hospitality Awards took place last night and several folk in London had reason to be very pleased with themselves indeed. The ceremony named a number of new five and four rosette...

There's every reason to get excited about this new opening from Jamavar chef Rohit Ghai. Inspired by the street food of Mumbai, the new restaurant offers lunchtime tiffins, with a menu and is packed...