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Best known for setting up successful pop-up events cooking Bengali cuisine at home, Shrimoyee Chakraborty is now getting ready to open her first permanent spot, Calcutta Street, in Fitzrovia.  There are two sides...

A new French bistro has come to Hoxton backed by people with pretty impressive bar experience. They're the ones behind bars Happiness Forgets and Original Sin, Alastair Burgess and Chris Smith...

We try out Bunyadi - a restaurant where everything is natural. Including the naked diners...

Smoke and Salt has taken over the top of the Chapel Bar in Islington for a year-long residency. We head along to see what's on. 

It's that time of the year when you either have to have some sort of great foodie trip planned or avoid Instagram for the next few months. Happily there's something to make any homebody happy as a...

And so another World's 50 Best has been and gone. This year's list was announced last night in New York where the great and the good of the restaurant world gathered to hear who the risers and...

A new bar is heading Shoreditch-wards, taking over the spot left vacant by Café El Paso. It's coming from Rocket Leisure, best known for Venn Street Records and Northcote Road Records - so yes,...

Heading to Street Feast at Dalston Yard this month? Watch out for a new trader Killa Dilla. It's the brainchild of Willy Leigh and Josh Whiting. The inspiration comes all the way from Utah which is...

A hugely popular event, the return of Summer in the Square is nearly upon us. It sees Grosvenor Square taken over by food and drink for a couple of weeks - and if you're thinking of heading down,...

The v popular evening street food collection Night Tales is on the way back - but this time they're heading for a new location, Hackney Wick, taking over an old stone merchant and car scrap yard. And...

Known for all weird and wonderful installations, Bompas and Parr are going back to their roots with their next event at Harrods, which they're saying is the "world's biggest jelly stall".  On the...

 Legs is the new Hackney restaurant from Magnus Reid - a small plates restaurant with a big focus on wine. We take it for a Test Drive. 

A Hot Dinners exclusive Earlier this year, we popped along to check out chef William Gleave's cooking at P Franco, having heard some seriously great buzz about him on the London food grapevine. Now...

Changes are afoot at the J Sheekey Oyster Bar - which is transforming into the J Sheekey Atlantic Bar. It's all to reflect a new menu that does a lot more than oysters... The most welcome section of...

Italian steakhouse group Macellaio RC (whose steaks got a great review from Marina O'Loughlin) are about to launch their third London restaurant. Their next opening will be on Union Street in...

Every time we write a story about Blacklock, we end up VERY hungry - and this will be no exception. The Soho chop house has just added something new to the menu, a new range of specials - the daily...

A Hot Dinners exclusive - updated 8/6/16 with opening date Thanks to an eagle-eyed Hot Dinners reader, our attention was brought to one of the biggest restaurant news stories of recent times. Turns...

Huge congratulations to James Lowe and his team at Lyle's who have just been listed as a new entry in the 51-100 portion of this year's World's 50 Best list. The top 50 will be announced in a...

07/06/16 - Updated with soft launch info. We've been in the Islington area for a long time now and we've really noticed that the past few years or so have seen a real improvement in Holloway Road's food...

Updated 07/6/16 with new opening date and more from the menu Undoubtedly one of the biggest new openings of 2016, Bao in Soho has been a HUGE success. The downside to that is there's often (for that...