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2/1/25 - updated with the opening date For years, Sebastian Vince's Breadstall has been one of the most popular pizza places in Battersea and he's spent all that time operating out of a (very big)...

2/1/25 - updated with the opening date If a restaurant takes as its influence the places a chef has lived and worked in, then in the case of chef Ricardo Younis Moreno you can expect a lively mix of...

It's nearly time for the main restaurant awards of the season to be announced. Find out when the 2025 Michelin stars for London and the UK are being announced - and what to expect.

They're as sure a sign of an area's gentrification as the arrival of a Waitrose or M&S Food store and now the bakery behemoths that are Gail's are expanding to the city's train stations. Last week...

Arriving with impeccable timing to cater to the crush that is going to be Oxford Street over the coming weeks, Japanese baking folk Happy Sky Bakery unveiled their brand new bakery over the weekend. This,...

We get a lot of information about new openings here at Hot Dinners, so it takes a lot to impress us. So when we say that an announcement about a new central London hotel made us sit up and take...

They opened their first place in Balham earlier this year and now the team behind Oybar have just opened a second bar, in Wimbledon. It's taken over what was once an O Neill's pub, which seems like a...

12/12/24 - updated with new images December might not seem like the most obvious time to launch an ice cream shop, but that's exactly what the team behind Goodbye Horses are doing. We knew at the...

We want to hear your thoughts on eating out in London this year. 

It's been a while since we've had a new Santa Maria pizzeria (the last was in Islington) but they're gearing up for their next - this time in Kew. The restaurant is taking over what recently used to...

They've dabbled in the whole smash burger scene before with a special burger on their main menu, but now Honest Burgers are making a bigger move in that direction. From today, their Liverpool Street...

There was quite the kerfuffle on Instagram when Jackson Boxer took to social to announce that his much-loved Notting Hill restaurant Orasay was going to close at the end of 2024. "There are a...

10/12/24 - updated with menu details Earlier this year, there was the surprising news that Birmingham-based chef Brad Carter had decided to pull out of the launch of the much-hyped Undercroft...

One of Borough Market's oldest restaurants has decided to celebrate its 25th birthday with a major shake-up. Applebee's has been in the market since it first started selling seafood back in 1998...

Kricket are on the expansion trail again, following up their recent Canary Wharf opening by coming to Shoreditch.  Taking over the space that was most recently Apothecary East, their latest opening...

If you've been following Hot Dinners for a while you'll know that there's nothing we enjoy more than a well made martini, so the arrival of a seafood bistro in Shoreditch that puts the martini at...