News & reviews

[Updated 15/5/13 with booking details and opening date] There's been a lot of speculation on what would replace Nahm restaurant at the Halkin hotel. This morning we had confirmation that the team...

Diners at The Ivy are more used to eating alongside A-listers, but last night the tables were turned as faces from film and TV took over front of house at the London restaurant. The stars were out...

The third part of what's being called the Burger Triangle (together with MEATliquor and Tommi's) opens later this week and, if our sneak preview is anything to go by, Patty & Bun sure to be a...

You know us - we get a bit twitchy if we let more than 24 hours go by without a burger story, and with that in mind - how does the idea of a free burger grab you? To get your free burger, head for...

[Updated 28/11/12 with opening date] It's pretty rare that a major new opening almost slips past us, but we have to admit to almost missing the opening of a super-luxury hotel in Westminster,...

It doesn't take much more than the sound of some decent grub and strong drink to raise Hot Dinners' interest, and the idea of a pop-up Gin Garden certainly has our name all over it. It's a...

We have a look at Dishoom's new East London offering, Dishoom Shoreditch.

It soft launched last week (with only the top floor opening) but this week sees the full launch of a new cocktail and dim sum bar right in the heart of Chinatown. Set over three floors of a town...

She's the woman who's lent her name to a particularly gravelly kind of tone most of us only achieve in the first throes of a cold ("Oh, you've gone all Mariella!"). She tackles reader problems on a...

Hot Dinners Exclusive The central London burger mania continues with another burger joint opening up in Soho next week. This time it's the turn of Beirut chain BRGR.CO which'll be opening up on...

[Updated 22/11/12 with soft launch offer details] There's always room for another Spanish place to eat in London as far as we're concerned. So we welcomed the news of a new tapas joint in Bloomsbury with open...

Waitrose may have Heston and Sainsbury's may be inextricably linked in people's minds with Jamie Oliver, but another supermarket has quietly been building up some rather impressive chef alliances...

A relatively unprepossessing modern block just behind Broadgate is fast becoming one of the City's more interesting dining locations. It's already home to Francesco Mazzei's L'anima and new Japanese...

News is breaking that two chefs from Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck have been killed whilst in Hong Kong. The chefs whose names haven't been confirmed by the restaurant or the BBC were...

We have a look at the latest restaurant to focus mainly on meat, Shoreditch's Beard to Tail.

Obviously, readers of Hot Dinners are no strangers to pop-ups. But even we have to admit that sometimes we'd like a little less queuing with the Next Big Thing. Well now that  something's come along,...

It would be fair to say there are a few burger fans amongst Hot Dinners' readers, so a lot of you'll probably be way too interested than is healthy to hear of a new festive burger about to hit...

Various areas of London have been blooming with all number of foodie treats this year, but one blossoming area that's most appreciated by Hot Dinners (as it's our backyard) is Islington. And that's...

Gail's bakeries are loved by many and touted by some as the best in London with branches all over the city. And now they're branching out with their first restaurant as Gail's Kitchen comes to...

Aside from his chain Busaba, Alan Yau seems to have been keeping a fairly low profile in London lately. But that's all about to change as he gets ready to unveil his new restaurant (the first of a...