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Update - here's a look at the new restaurant. We've had it on our Coming Soon page for a while, but today we got the first confirmation that the second Barrafina restaurant would be opening at...

(2/12/13 - updated with soft launch details) London's love affair with Korean food shows no sign of abating and one London restaurateur is looking to get in on the act. Linda Lee who founded...

Russell Norman's new Theatreland pub meets his brief of offering 'real British hospitality'. We predict a smash hit.

After proving a huge hit in Soho and winning an Observer Food Monthly award, Tonkotsu heads east to Hackney for its next venture. We went along to check it out.

Popping up in Covent Garden just in time for Christmas is the six day Krug Kreperie experience. Two French chalet inspired dining pods each seating six people, plus a bar, can be found in the East...

Hard on the heels of winning this year's MasterChef, popular winner Natalie Coleman is out and about at the moment promoting the show's new book. Hot Dinners bumped into her on her rounds to talk...

If you've been down Greek Street recently and wondered what the Churchill port house is that's popped up at no 26, then let us enlighten you. It's a three floor temporary educational experience and...

What better way to get in the mood for a thoroughly London Christmas than heading over to Hawker House who'll be hosting Gizzi Erskine's #TwistedChristmas on 14 December. Traders already confirmed...

Is this a sign of London's improving fortunes? Three years after it was taken off the menu due to customers feeling the pinch, caviar is now back at Green's Restaurant & Oyster Bar. It was...

Giving us yet another reason to head to Covent Garden, the people behind the Experimental Cocktail Club will open their next London venue towards the end of the year called Compagnie des Vins...

(Updated 28/11 with soft launch details) A new restaurant is coming to Exmouth Market, celebrating all things piggy. Blackfoot is from Tom Ward and Allegra McEvedy, both previously at Leon and is...

Mark Hix already has a "Hix" restaurant on the ground floor of Selfridges but he's just added a second pop-up for anyone browsing the store's just-launched men's shoe department. It's much, much...

We've had the cronut, the doissant, even the controversial duffin - now Selfridges on Oxford Street wants in on the action and is launching the biskie. The biskie is a cookie/cake/biscuit combo...

American website Daily Meal has just released its list of the Top 35 airport restaurants around the world. We thought it might make interesting reading, particularly given the news a few weeks ago...

A timeless French restaurant returns to London - we head to Mayfair to try out the new incarnation of Boulestin.

Start the day in London with a breakfast that serves up the whole of London as the view. With Aqua Shard being the first place at the Shard to do breakfast we went along to try it out.

(2/12 - Update - we've now been to the Ape and Bird - check out our Test Drive.) They brought us the joys of cicheti and Negronis when they introduced Londoners to the joys of a Venetian bàcaro with...

They only opened their doors this summer but this weekend Hackney restaurant Raw Duck (an offshoot of Ducksoup in Soho) is facing imminent demolition. Seems that the nearby excavation for...

(Updated 22/11 with soft launch details) Ever since the restaurant at Ransome's Dock closed this summer, Battersea residents have been waiting to find out who'll take over. Well Hot Dinners has the...

London is about to get another big new BBQ restaurant as Chelsea institution, Big Easy Bar.B.Q & Crabshack gets ready to open a new restaurant in Covent Garden's Maiden Lane early next year. The city's...