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Our latest run-down of what we've been up to this week, picking the best from our posts on Twitter and Instagram. This week - we take in two Test Drives (from Corbin & King and Marcus Wareing) and...

The latest in a regular series where we gather together all the food, restaurant and chef related articles we've found interesting this week. This week - songbirds, negative reviews, airline food...

Hot Dinners was over in Marylebone last night to try out the three week pizza popup from Giorgio Locatelli. Pizza Locadeli is the first pop up to take over the Carousel space on Blandford Street and...

Residents of Kensington and Chelsea will no longer have to bother having to head across town to East London if club owner Piers Adam has his way. Adam (Whisky Mist and Mahiki) has teamed up with...

Looking for somewhere other than the huge chain restaurant to eat at when you go to the O2? We may have the answer. Greenwich Kitchen is a new all-day restaurant coming to North Greenwich's...

Updated 18/9/14 with opening date, soft launch details and images We've written previously about the upcoming opening of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin's first hotel, The Beaumont in Mayfair. The...

Looking for a drink that announces to the rest of the bar that you are In The House? Well this showpiece of Novikov's new disco cocktail menu certainly fits the bill. Called the "Don't Stop ‘til You...

If you're a West London fan of the St John Bakery custard doughnuts but can't make it across to Maltby Street as much as you'd like - then there's another option available. The St John Bakery has...

Bone Daddies is expanding. The ramen restaurants are adding a third site to their portfolio, opening in Whole Foods Kensington in November. Following on from Bone Daddies and Flesh & Buns, Bone...

Eating 17 scotch eggs in a single sitting isn't something we ever thought we'd end up doing when we first started Hot Dinners. But last night we were one of the judges at the annual Scotch Egg...

Having quietly opened its doors in West London, we predict that L'Amorosa is going to get a lot busier over the coming weeks when word gets out about this neighbourhood gem. Key to that is who's in...

Here's a date for your diaries. From Sunday 5th October Quo Vadis will be opening for lunch on Sundays. They'll be putting on a full a la carte menu, with some additional Sunday dishes. But the real...

Our latest run-down of what we've been up to this week, picking the best from our posts on Twitter and Instagram. This week - a taster of New York, a very fine London burger, MEATbook and more...

The first in a new regular series where we gather together all the food, restaurant and chef related articles we've found interesting this week. 

Updated 16/9/14 with revised opening date Following on from the successful opening in Islington, Des McDonald is bringing his modern take on the chippy to the City. The Fish & Chip Shop will open on...

There's a launch party tonight, hosted by supermodel Jourdan Dunn, and a soft launch next week - but for the earliest preview of Marcus Wareing's next restaurant, destined to be one of the big...

"This will be a once in a lifetime experience...enjoy the ride!" This was breakfast, like you've never had it before...sitting around a table on a platform suspended a hundred feet from a crane...

London's locally produced food and drink industry has grown at an impressive rate over the last few years as the trend towards 'locavorism' has seemingly hit its peak. Nowhere is this truer than in...

Updated 10/9/14 with booking details The restaurant and bar at the new Mondrian Hotel in the iconic Sea Containers building on the South Bank both promise to be among the biggest openings of Autumn. We...