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Cocktails, glamour and 1920s hedonism on tap. Fulham's newest bar promises an indulgent evening - with all-day dining to match. This is the second venture by the team behind the underground...

Irvin Bar Grill - a cicchetti joint in Crouch End - opened rather under the radar a month or so ago. It's run by the former drummer from Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, which will only be a big thing to...

Update 18/5/15 - due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed The Community of Madrid has more than 53,500 restaurants - so they should know a thing or two about good food. And for a...

Next week's Art15 which hits London is shaping up to be feast for the stomach as well as the eyes. The Global Art Fair is now in its third year and will be exhibiting work from 150 galleries from 40...

When a Hot Dinners reader mentioned to us on Twitter that Patty & Bun had their eye on an East London arch, we went into investigation mode. Turns out the popular burger bunch have taken over a spot...

New burger alert! This is the new Third Burger being served up in the bar at Hawksmoor Seven Dials. The Kentucky Burger has seen the team at Hawksmoor coat chicken thighs with their own special...

If you're after a seafood start to the weekend from this Friday you can head to Danish restaurant Snaps + Rye where they've just extended their opening hours on Friday evenings for for Fiskefredag –...

We can always tell the weather's getting better by the volume of emails we get about new alfresco spots and rooftop spaces opening up for the summer. But one new one, Roofnic, caught our attention, not least...

After a stint in Shoreditch, the Porridge Cafe has returned, this time for a month-long pop-up in Victoria.  Expect a similar set up to the first pop-up and they're promising summer breakfast...

Ever since opening Air Street, which successfully brought fish to Hawksmoor menus in collaboration with Mitch Tonks, the rest of the Hawksmoors have been showing some fishy influences. The latest is...

Following on from their successful collaboration with Ben Spalding, London Fields creative hub The Laundry Building has landed another great restaurant and this one's permanent. Officially opening...

Hot Dinners Exclusive They've had huge success in the new Spitalfields space (just AMAZING burgers every time we've been) and now Bleecker St Burger are returning to the Southbank Centre too, where the...

Now this is a pretty impressive line-up. It's everyone who will be competing in this year's Slider Decider - taking place at the Gun on June 4. And what they have planned sounds pretty tempting...  Bone...

Opening this month, close to the British Museum is Clive’s Midtown Diner. It's the first restaurant by chef Toby Aldenhoven who previously worked for Will Ricker at Bodega Negra and Casa Negra. Toby...

Nuno Mendes almost manages to open a new restaurant on the quiet. But once news gets out, this is going to be every bit as hard to get into as Chiltern Firehouse.

This is the second Ceviche from Martin Morales (who's also behind Andina). We head along to see how the ceviches and pisco sours translate to Old Street. 

If hands-on butchery, charcuterie making classes and meat and beer tastings sound like your kind of thing, then Cannon & Cannon’s newly-launched ‘Meat School’ is just the place for you. Meat School...

They might have come under some rather unfair press scutiny when they opened their first venue (pictured above), but there's no denying Cereal Killer Cafe's success. The first one still has queues...

2015 is proving to be a busy old year for Mark Sargeant. Just weeks after his appointment as Chef Director at The Strand Dining Rooms was announced, comes news that the chef and restaurateur is in...

Exclusive We've had burgers & lobsters, chicken & steak, cereal, porridge and more - now it's the turn of the humble meatball to get a restaurant all of its own. Something similar has gone down very...