News & reviews

A new Italian restaurant is coming to Moorgate, specialising in North east Italy's Ligurian cooking. 

This sparkly little number is a new drink on the cocktail menu at the Ritz Rivoli Bar. The Tallulah references the moment back in 1951 when American actress Tallulah Bankhead sipped champagne from...

The annual summertime trend to turn parts of London into scenes from the seaside (see here for news of more at Shad Thames and Covent Garden) continues with news of the latest urban beach to hit...

The people behind Licky Chops and Ruby's unite to reinvent this classic Hackney pub. We went along to try it out.

From the folk who brought you Goodman as well as Burger & Lobster comes their highest concept restaurant, Beast.

Psychic Burger's residency at the Old Queen's Head in Islington is launching possibly the piggiest burger we've ever seen on Wednesday.  The Pig Salad burger features a pork, black pudding and...

The Terrace on Harvey Nichols 5th floor often gets a very welcome makeover in the summer and the next one is imminent. This time it's courtesy of New Zealand wine Cloudy Bay - which is taking the...

19/5 - updated with soft launch info. The chefs from Jerusalem's coolest restaurant Machneyuda are heading to London to help open their first UK restaurant. The Palomar, which will open this Spring...

16/5/14 - updated with soft launch details. Soho House's two very popular ventures continue to reach out to all sides of London. We've already seen Chicken Shop and Dirty Burger in the north...

This divine looking sarnie is the new Seven Year Steak Sandwich which will go on the menu at Hawksmoor Guildhall, Air Street and Seven Dials next week. Named after the amount of years Hawksmoor have...

Here at Hot Dinners we're rather partial to a nice glass of Chardonnay so this two day wine and cheese pop-up with Hardy's and Alex James sounds like it might be worth heading down to. The 1853...

The hottest day of the year so far may seem like an odd time to be launching a Yorkshire pudding pop-up, but c'mon do you really need winter back to enjoy a good Yorkshire? Launched yesterday at...

  It would be fair to say that we're very much looking forward to 2014's Meatopia in September  (details here). So to put you in the mood - here are a few pics to whet your appetite. They're a preview of...

Yes this picture of venison haunch with a light pearl barley salad and bramble dressing does look rather fabulous doesn't it? But for us, that's not the selling point of new summer pop-up Dram &...

Updated 13/5/14 with opening date and image It already has two of London's top restaurants, Bar Boulud and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and now the Mandarin Oriental is about to add a new tea room to...

Well the London rooftop scene just got a LOT more interesting. We can exclusively reveal that from this summer, Selfridges will run a series of annual residencies on its rooftop. Up on the roof...

We head to Claridge's to try out Simon Rogan's new restaurant Fera at Claridge's. 

Diego Jacquet has had great success with the Malevo Group with Casa Malevo and particularly Zoilo being very well received Argentine restaurants. Now he's expanding further, as Abasto, an Argentine...

A popular blues and BBQ joint in Camden has gone south to Shoreditch - opening fully this week. It'll be offering Texan BBQ, live music seven nights a week and is also promising "one of the biggest...

A Hot Dinners Exclusive. Let's be honest, Heston Blumenthal could open an edible envelope and there'd be a host of foodies there to document it - so when word got out that he was opening a...