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Updated 7/8 with launch menu info. Islington continues to get more interesting as New Rankin firms up his next venture. Having revamped John Salt and left Luke Findley, in charge, he is moving onto a...

Everyone's looking for the next big trend in food - recently we've had Peruvian, burgers, chicken, pizza (and probably burgers again a few more times) but one we've been keeping an eye out for is...

We head to Granary Square near King's Cross to check out Bruno Loubet's restaurant where the focus is all on the vegetables.

Descending down the winding concrete stairs, you enter a candlelit cocktail bar, reminiscent of a New York bunker. But don’t be fooled, you’re not in The Big Apple, you’re in ‘Downstairs at...

The first Toast event was a big success and now they're back again for a one-off event celebrating the best of Cornwall - with a Sunday lunch cooked by Tom Adams and James Lowe. The event, the next...

Often all eyes are on central London openings, but very interesting things are opening further away from the centre. Just opened (last week) in Kensal Rise is new French bistro Madame Gautier - an...

The upcoming London Craft Beer Festival over in Bethnal Green this month has a cracking line-up of food to go along with the many, many lovely beers on offer. A beer-matching supperclub called The...

With summer finally here, the soaring temperatures and hazy nights are all the excuse we need for an impromptu drinking session. The St Pancras Renaissance hotel is just the place to head with the...

It's going to be a busy old year for Angela Hartnett. Not only is she behind the opening of Merchant's Tavern restaurant and bar in Shoreditch this September, but it turns out she's also opening a new...

Last night ourselves and a bunch of foodies, bloggers, chefs and restaurateurs crowded a Soho pavement for the launch of the much-anticipated Pizza Pilgrims restaurant in Soho. The new restaurant...

We go to Pimlico to chek out family-run Italian restaurant Tinello.

Multi-Coloured Slop Shop, Ealing. Keith Chegwin hunches with a ladle and several buckets of garishly unidentifiable "food product". Anarchic. If all that sounds familiar, then you're a follower of...

We've had Burger and Lobster, chicken and steak (Tramshed), chicken and egg (Whyte and Brown) and many more combinations. But this latest Russian inspired bar cuts right to the chase offering the...

Update - Bleecker St Burger (that's them in the photo) were crowned the winners! The London burger craze may have just added some American newcomers to the scene, but the city's doing very well on...

Trishna chef Karam Sethi is opening a second restaurant Gymkhana in Mayfair this summer and it sounds as if as much energy is being spent on the basement bar as the restaurant itself. The lower...

London already has plenty of breweries as well as gin and vodka distilleries, so it was really only a matter of time before it got its own winery. Now London Cru is planning to open in November in...

News of yet another big US opening hit the Twittersphere this week when it was revealed that Fatty Crab - the Malaysian inspired seafood joint from the folks behind Fatty Cue - was planning to open...

If there's one recurring theme in London restaurant openings this Autumn, it's that lots of their cuisine looks to the East for influence. And the latest to be announced is a Chinese dim sum...

Hot Dinners likes to ease gently into the start of the working week, and so chose to escape the muggy weather on Monday night with cocktails and a movie at the red carpet launch of the British...

We head west to Shepherd's Bush to check out strong cocktails and cracking food at this ‘true neighbourhood restaurant’.