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Coming to Westfield Stratford, hard on the heels of another American import Shake Shack, is Pot Belly. It's the first European opening of the hugely popular US sandwich shop, specialising in hot,...

Coming soon from the team who brought you the crazy all-night Bloodshot supper club: a new event - Blood Sugar - at the Manor in Clapham on Sunday 5 July. What's the sugar rush? Two of London's top...

We're really liking the look of Berry Bros new cellar in St James, which they've just opened, partnering up with some pretty impressive London restaurants in the process.  The collaborations are all...

24/7/15 - updated with the menu Well this sounds like it'll be a popular spot for the summer. Having only relatively recently opened their first floor restaurant, the team at The Culpeper gastropub in...

If you feel you're not getting a sufficient sense that the British summer is underway - we may have a suggestion to remedy that. Duck & Waffle and Petersham Nurseries are joining forces for what...

Now this looks like an interesting residency - on for four weeks only. Lee Skeet was head chef at Hedone and has also worked with Marcus Wareing and Tom Aikens before that. It's his second residency since...

It's been far too long since we went to a London supperclub, so having written about the arrival of Croft Kitchen in Holloway a few weeks ago, we decided to rectify that. There were a few reasons...

Now this is something new for town - just opened in Westbourne Park is London's first broth bar - called Bone Tea. What is a broth bar, you ask? Essentially it's slightly poshed up stock, something which...

So you've bought some meticulously sourced flat iron steak, have a very decent bottle of Californian red from your local vintner ready to drink for your BBQ, but all this is for naught if you...

A short while ago, we reported on a new pop-up appearing at Leicester Square station called Pilau (following an earlier stint at Old Street). It proved very popular indeed, so much so that they've...

Updated 22/6/15 with opening date. Until last Summer, James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy ran a supper club called The Secret Larder. But now they're heading over to Hackney to open a restaurant called...

A new weekend pop-up is heading to Shoreditch, setting up shop for weekends only at Crisis Cafe on Commercial Street. It's going for a communal dining experience. So there will be shareable starter...

Hot Dinners exclusive 16/7/15 - Updated with opening info The Dairy chef Robin Gill is a busy chap. Not content with being a driving force behind the much-lauded The Manor which opened in November and...

The award winning lamb cutlet from The Clove Club Could 2015 be a vintage year for Taste of London. If the signs from opening night were anything to go by, it could well be. Regent's Park was...

We're not sure that Hot Dinners has been this excited about any news story we've written so far. Because today we bring you the joyous news that for two weeks this summer the BT Tower's revolving...

There's a new summertime bar and rooftop restaurant on the way to Homerton, and it has Jarrod Cooke and Chef Giorgio Ravelli - who took over Upstairs at the Ten Bells from the Clove Club - at the...

We've had cafe's devoted to cereal, porridge, cheese toasties, even polenta - but it looks as though the single ingredient trend of the foreseeable future for London is the humble egg. In addition...

There's another restaurant on the way to Islington and this looks like an interesting spin on a traditional Chinese restaurant... It's an all-day family-style Chinese restaurant serving food that...

Kentish Town is about to get a new pub. Well actually it's an old pub, given a new look, but an old name. Confused? Let us enlighten you. What was most recently The Bluebell and before that The...

If you haven't managed to get a table upstairs at Dabbous yet, there's now a chance to grab some of his signature dishes in the bar downstairs. They're now serving up single plates from the main...