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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...

It's the ninth restaurant on his CV but the first with him in charge - we try Jun Tanaka's new spot on Charlotte Street 

Updated 11/8/16 with more chefs The ever-popular Meatopia is back at Tobacco Dock again this September, and the details of the line-up have been revealed (as well as an extra day added onto the meat...

Pho, bao buns and more are coming to Greenwich as there's a new  Vietnamese restaurant about to hit. It's called Pho Street and from the same people behind Noodle Street in Docklands. Expect a...

They've had big success in Soho, so much that rotisserie chicken specialists are opening two new spots. First up is their delivery ONLY set-up in the City. So you won't be able to pop up and grab...

The Providores is about to celebrate its 15th anniversary and they've come up with a pretty stellar line-up to do so. They've got some of the best chefs who have ever worked alongside the...

It's all happening over on Hackney's Morning Lane. First came the new wine-focused restaurant Legs, then the new Nike store opened and now there's Farley Macallan. It's a new wine bar and restaurant run by...

For one month only, Soho steakhouse Mash is putting on a wagyu tasting plate allowing diners to try three different Wagyu meats – Kobe XO, Wagyu XO and Australian AACo Wagyu – for £80. TasteWagyu...

There's news today of a massive new market coming to the area between Borough and Elephant and Castle. It's one that originally started in Milan and they're taking over a disused paper factory,...

Updated 3/6/16 with soft launch details In perfect time for the Olympics in Rio this summer is a Brazilian popup hitting London Fields. Rio Boteco is described as a Brazilian corner shop pub and...