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A Hot Dinners exclusive It's been almost three years since the Mark Hix restaurant, Pharmacy 2, closed its doors at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall. But now we bring you news of...

A new Eastern Med restaurant is coming to London, this one having originally started in Tel Aviv. The London version of Claro is landing in St James, opening in the building that once held...

If you've ever been to Japan and seen the superb food replica dishes they have in front of restaurants there, you'll know just how amazingly realistic they can be. Now Londoners are going to get a...

19/9/24 - Updated with lots more detail about what to expect Restaurant duo George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev appear to be vying for the title of busiest restaurateurs in London. Having only...

Updated 19/9/24 with full opening details After years of popping up at various places across London, the first AngloThai restaurant from John and Desiree Chantarasak is very nearly here. They...

You'll probably be aware of them as a pasta delivery service. But fresh pasta company Pasta Evangelists are also getting into the London restaurant game. First, they teamed up with Michelin-starred chef Giancarlo...

Right now London appears to be having a moment when it comes to luxury hotels. Over the past year or so we've had a slew of high end establishments opening their doors to guests including the...

I think we can safely say that anyone opening a Basque cheesecake shop in London right now is on to a good thing. Certainly, that was the experience of La Maritxu which went down a storm with its...

A Mexican salsa business, founded on a grandmother's amazing recipes, is gearing up for its first big London opening. Conchita's Mexican Kitchen has been popping up in food halls and residencies...

We'd been hearing talk behind the scenes for a few days that not all was well with the opening of Undercroft. It was due to be top Birmingham chef Brad Carter's London debut but now he's announced that...

If you've been wandering around Soho over the past week or so, you may have wondered what's been drawing crowds down Old Compton Street. Well, we're here to tell you about London's new white hot...

Now this is a clever idea. If your restaurant is more of a dinner place but you want to make the space pay for itself during the day, then why not team up with a cafe/bakery? That's what Empire...

A Hot Dinners exclusive It may not seem like the most likely place to open up a honky tonk bar, but Chiswick folk will need to slap on a stetson and find their cowboy boots when Lil' Nashville...

You may have come across the expression "four hands" dinner before. Essentially it's a rather cheffy way of talking about a team-up between two chefs. That's exactly what Phil Howard is planning at...

11/9/24 - updated with more information and the opening date We've already seen Marceline open on the top floor of the huge floating building next to Hawksmoor in Canary Wharf, now comes the loser...

Islington has recently got a "new" pub on the high street, in the shape of The Peacock. It's opened up in a space that was once Wetherspoon pub The Angel, itself followed up by an independent pub...

Almost two decades after it first opened its doors inside the Dorchester, the celebrity magnet China Tang has branched out. It's just opened a dim sum counter over at Harrods and if you're after...