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West London has been somewhat overlooked in the restaurant-opening boom, but there's a new place on the way. A new pub, restaurant and exhibition space is opening in Maida Vale, with ex Galvin at...

[Updated 22/3 with brand new images and a gallery showing the new look] He may have spent most of the past year opening places in Vegas, but Gordon Ramsay isn't about to take his eye off the London...

An invitation for drinks and canapes at The Ritz isn't something we'd ever turn down, so Hot Dinners hotfooted it over to Piccadilly last night to meet the folk responsible for food and drink at the...

As we wait to find out who's going to take over from Gordon Ramsay at Claridges, across town another top-flight hotel has quietly put its dining room under wraps for a major revamp. The Savoy has...

London's street food scene is getting bigger and better all the time, but it's only going to keep going in that direction if it continues to attract new talent. Which is where the inKERBator comes...

Flying under the radar, a new slow food bar and diner has just opened in Farringdon. Lazybones focuses on all manner of slow food from pulled pork to brisket in the new venue just off Cowcross...

Jason Atherton had a huge hit with Pollen Street Social - something he's repeated around the world. Now he returns to London with a new French Bistro just yards away from the original PSS.

[updated 18/3/13 with extended run time] Toasting marshmallows over open fires, scoffing warming beef stew and hunkering down in a tipi strewn with fairy lights to nuzzle a hot chocolate…as the...

Mondays are always a bit of a drag, so beat those back to work blues next week at La Sagra a Dehesa - an Italian street food fiesta in Soho next Monday evening. Orchestrated by Salt Yard Group’s Ben...

Fresh from becoming the joint winner of 2012's MasterChef - the Professionals in December, Keri Moss is just about to open her first restaurant, the Corner Room and Champagne Bar in Selfridges. On...

The Endurance continues its series of residencies, with the latest seeing them join the enduring (pun... maybe intended) chicken craze of the moment, as Mother Clucker moves from their truck to take...

London's obsession with chicken continues unabated, which is how we found ourselves one weekend lunchtime at one of the newer spots, Clockjack Oven. It's probably to safe to say they're hoping, if...

Sounds interesting - chef Morgan Meunier kicks off a series of supperclubs at new London Bridge spot The Rooftop Café at The Exchange. His dinner on Wednesday 20th March will cost £40 and the menu...

[Updated 14/3/13 with online booking details and bar opening date] Hoxton looks set to get another interesting new restaurant in March when Beagle opens its doors on Geffrye Street. The restaurant,...

Eric Chavot returns to London with the intention to reinvent himself from his previous incarnation as a two Michelin-starred chef. Brasserie Chavot in Mayfair ends up ticking all of our boxes.

[12/3 - updated with opening date] Yum Bun have long been one of the darlings of the London street food revolution that's been taking place over the last couple of years. They're best known for...

[Updated 12/3/13 with more auction details] We're always impressed with the events that Action Against Hunger come up with, but their latest one, Auction against Hunger is going to take some...

From former drug baron to best-selling author to DJ and crime novelist, Howard Marks aka Mr Nice, isn't short of a story or two to tell. So he'll make a particularly good host for Disco Bistro's...

Monocle, the global affairs magazine and media brand founded by Tyler Brûlé, will open its first London café at 18 Chiltern Street, Marylebone in early April. The 15-seater café follows the success...

Updated 10/3/13 with full opening hours. Ever since they pipped Jeremy King and Chris Corbin to the post in securing the site of the old Theatre Museum in Covent Garden, it’s been presumed that...