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24/1/13 - Updated with menu details. He's a man who's made the headlines recently, but now Claude Bosi's back with a new pub that he's pulling together with his brother Cedric. The pair previously...

Could 2013 be the year Londoners are enticed out of town by a rash of new country house openings where the food promises to be really good? While Skye Gyngell works on her restaurant at Heckfield...

The TV company behind such shows as Saturday Kitchen and The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain are making a bold move into the real world by opening up a cookery school. And they've got some of the...

They're currently running a popular residency at the Princess Alice on Commercial Road, and now chicken masters Spit and Roast are inviting more street food traders down to join the party. They'll...

Canary Wharf workers might want to start booking in lunch or evening meetings at Goodman Canary Wharf on Mondays for the next five weeks as the steakhouse launches a brief series of super deals on...

Alan Yau comes to Islington with the first outpost of a new chain, modelled after  Bangkok cafes.

Baking couldn't be any bigger right now - with the great British bake-off being one of the programmes Hot Dinners was utterly gripped by last year. So it makes sense that Fortnum & Mason are...

Well it was wall-to-wall chefs and restaurant folk at the party last night at The Connaught to celebrate Helene Darroze's Galette Du Rois - the cake baked in celebration of The Epiphany. Squeezed...

Michael Winner, film director and longstanding restaurant critic for the Sunday Times has died aged 77. Winner, whose column Winner's Dinners, ran for 19 years, published his last restaurant review...

If you're still on a health kick for January look away now. Because the popular Korean streetfood peeps at Kimchi Cult have just kicked off a month long residency at the Black Heart in Camden. So if...

Among 2013's most anticipated new openings are those in the massive column of steel and glass that's now towering over London - the Shard. Plans for the restaurant from Rainer Becker and Arjun Waney...

Ever since it was revealed that the former Pitt Cue Co chef Neil Rankin was taking over after Ben Spalding's departure at John Salt, anticipation has been slowly building to fever pitch. The menu...

While everyone else around us seems to be counting the calories and steering clear of the demon drink, you can rest assured that here at Hot Dinners, we haven't lost our eye for a carb-loaded meal...

This most recent addition to Richard Caring's stable of Mayfair restaurants works like a well oiled machine to keep diners very, very happy..

Congrats to Ollie Dabbous and his team this morning with the news that Dabbous has been awarded three rosettes by the AA Guide. It's the only London restaurant to be included in the new awards of...

It isn't often that a superhot new restaurant opening almost sneaks up on us - but The Five Fields threatened to do just that. Opening at some point this Spring, this Chelsea restaurant has an...

Popular chicken street food truck Roost is heading indoors for a Soho residency. They'll be sheltering from the winter cold at the Sun & 13 Cantons, Great Pulteney Street from 4 February to Saturday 30...

The Thatched House in Hammersmith is a sister pub of the much-lauded Ship in Wandsworth, and since its opening has been pretty quick to feel the love of food-obsessed Londoners. For 2013, they're...

Look away now, if you're on a January detox, because Mayfair's Mount Street Deli has just launched a range of dinner party desserts from Caprice Holdings restaurants. They join the deli's range of...

His food blog came highly commended in this year's Observer Food Monthly Awards and after a busy few months writing a new book and getting married, James Ramsden and his now-wife (but long-time...