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Update 12/4/13: Another Hot Dinners Exclusive. Latest additions to the Taste lab are Bubble Food. They'll be showing off Liquid Nitrogen Poached Mousses and even give you the opportunity to make...

If you're like us and view potatoes as a food group all of their own, then you may be interested in a new potato-themed restaurant (and grocer) opening on Exmouth Market tomorrow (April 12). Rather...

London's super-competitive lunch market has a new contender as Milanese restaurant, Panino Giusto opens this April at Royal Exchange. Panino Giusto, which has been serving up paninos in Milan for...

If you fancy trying some international Michelin star cooking but can't be faffed with the Ryanair nightmare to get there, then Harrods' latest food event may well be the thing for you. At the end of...

Updated 10/4/13 with details of masterclasses at Fortnum & Mason To be honest the sound of spelt didn’t really float our boat when we first heard that we’d been invited to an event dedicated to it...

We pull up a seat at the kitchen counter at Argentinean restaurant Zoilo.

The wave of American chefs heading our way looks set to continue with the news that NYC chef John de Lucie is to open American bistro Red House in Chelsea. Chef John DeLucie is best known for being...

Claude's Kitchen is a hidden away restaurant at the top of Amuse Bouche champagne bar in Fulham. We popped in to see what the ex-Petersham chef is cooking.

Hot Dinners readers will get an exclusive 50% discount on the food bill for lunch and dinner at Heaton, Butler and Bayne from 10-11 April 2013. Today sees the opening of Heaton, Butler and Bayne, a...

After a successful pop-up earlier this year, popular street food purveyors Kimchi Cult have now set up shop in the Black Heart pub for the long term. They've just started a six month stretch in the...

Ramen may not necessarily be the food you'd think of first for a blowout meal, but an event coming up at Hix Tramshed will require slightly more of your wonga than usual. Every month,...

Ten years after it first opened, Jamie Oliver’s Shoreditch restaurant Fifteen is having a major revamp. The restaurant is in the final stages of a full refurbishment and Jamie has brought in a new...

As one third of the original London dream team the Young Turks, James Lowe, there's a lot riding on his first solo restaurant endeavour. But while young James works out where his first place will...

Claude Bosi's had big success in Wimbledon with his first pub the Fox and Grapes. We head over to Fulham to find out more about his latest gastrpub...

As if you didn't know it already, London's a real international hub when it comes to events discussing and celebrating food. Hard on the heels of The Lab in April, we can now reveal a second really...

Barely six months after opening, City restaurant Chrysan has shut up shop. The Hakkasan Group issued a statement today about the immediate closure of Chrysan saying they had "ceased trading the...

One of the final parts in the grand regeneration project which has transformed Kings Cross over the past 15 years is about to open. The Grade II listed Great Northern Hotel has had some £40m...

Tommi’s Hamburger Joint, plans to open two new outlets in London this Summer. The Icelandic burger chain, which opened its first London outlet in Marylebone last year, is taking a space in...

St John Hotel - later renamed St John Chinatown - opened to rave reviews and a large amount of foreign press interest when it opened back in Spring 2011 and subsequently gained a Michelin star...

Camden Town is getting itself a BBQ joint. Porky's - an all-American smokehouse – will open on Chalk Farm Road in mid May. The people behind it are husband and wife team Joy and Simon Brigg who also...