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If you're in Knightsbridge this February and craving a pork bun, then all you'll have to do is head to the top floor of Harvey Nichols where Yum Bun are popping up for a month.  Head on up to the...

This coming Sunday is British Yorkshire Pudding Day and to celebrate The Rib Room in Knightsbridge have come up with this rather delightful looking trio of Yorkshire Puddings. From today until...

The designs of the upcoming COUNTER in Vauxhall look very impressive indeed (see below). Coming from owner (and local resident Philip Reicherstorfer), the new brasserie takes up the entire length of...

Plans had been rumbling for a while and now we have full details of what's planned for the new Ottolenghi, coming to Artillery Lane in Spitalfields. So expect some of the best salads and cakes in...

Updated 2/2/15 with soft launch offer Opening upstairs from K10 on Appold Street is a new hirata bun pop-up, Beer & Buns. As the name suggests, it's going to be focusing on two key things, hirata...

Popular Fitzrovia coffee shop Kaffeine has always turned out some cracking food to go with its drinks, so news that they're opening a second branch can only be a good thing. They'll be taking over a...

The people behind North Audley Cantine are converting their downstairs space into a separate cocktail bar called Chez Chow. There will be new bar snacks, a brand new cocktail menu and it'll all be...

It's worth keeping an eye out for the effect of new Executive Chef Amandine Chaignot at The Rosewood London, where she takes over from Bjorn van der Horst. Her background includes three years with...

It's not often you hear of a top chef in London getting down and dirty in the street food scene, but that's exactly what's happened with Le Swine. It's the brainchild of chef James Packman who...

It's time for another influentials list, this time from the Sunday Times, who have joined up with Debrett's to pull together the 500 most influential people in the UK today. Nestled among all the...

Update 23/01/15 - the Shin Digs are having a mini re-launch with a new group chef Oliver Rowe in charge of the menu. It's from 27th - 29th January (you'll need to book) and they'll have 50% off the...

Hotbox BBQ in the city is hugely popular at the moment and from this weekend, they're adding brunch to the menu, bringing more life to the City at weekends. On the menu will be smoked huevos...

It opened pretty under the radar in the run up to Christmas, so if you haven't been down to Exmouth Market recently you may not know about Medcalf Traiteur. It's an expansion of Medcalf into the...

When Scott Hallsworth's extremely popular Kurobuta first started out, it was as a pop-up on the King's Road (while they got the permanent venue underway). That pop-up was so popular that it just...

The original Kurobuta pop-up may be moving to new, spacious, permanent premises, but that doesn't mean there aren't big plans for the original site of the pop-up. Scott Hallsworth is revamping the...

Bonhams members were the first to try out a new restaurant at the auction house's New Bond Street location, which has just opened to the public. And not only does it have an interesting head chef at...

The Dead Dolls Club and Dolls House in Hoxton are already big hits and now they're expanding to Islington, taking over the space that used to be House of Wolf.

What's this? The French are crossing the channel to bring their burgers to London? Big Fernand opened its first place in Paris back in 2012 and now has eight restaurants in France. But they're...