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If you're the kind of person who would rather experience all the fun of a festival with the attendant luxury of the glamping village complete with VIP loos, then the Pingtron pop-up could be for...

There aren't many invitations we'd turn down that include both vodka and caviar; and when you add in the presence of one of London's great cocktail maestros then we're a sure thing. That's how one...

Hakkasan, moves east with its new restaurant in the City and we put the 15 course tasting menu to the test.

This time last year, we were all excited about a new burger joint opening just off Oxford Street.  Of course, MEATliquor turned out to be much more than that, practically cornering the market for...

Hot Dinners popped along last night to the open night of Feast tucked away behind Islington's Upper Street in the former Post Office mail sorting depot now known as Islington Square. We hadn't made...

  When we were invited down to check out the soft launch for Flat Iron Soho we didn’t need to be asked twice. Formerly in existence as a pop up in the Owl and Pussycat pub in Shoreditch, this is the...

We have a look at London's newest ramen joint, Bone Daddies.

Salon is a restaurant we've been keeping close tabs on since we spoke to Head Chef Nicholas Balfe about the opening last month and it immediately struck us as one-to-watch. This weekend we had an...

[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...