News & reviews

North London steakhouse Garufa in Highbury (recently mentioned in our Best Neighbourhood Restaurants in North London feature) is expanding with a second restaurant, this time in central London...

[Updated 20/9/12 with hotel location details] Now this is going to be interesting. Channel 4 have just released details of their latest commissions, one of which will see Gordon Ramsay working...

Islington gets a new grown-up French restaurant on the site of the old Morgan M on Liverpool Road.

Another pop up is making its way south of the river for the last gasp of Summer. Roti Chai, the Indian street food restaurant in Mayfair which we rather liked, is coming to the South Bank to take...

Nightclub owner Guy Pelly first shot to fame with his first club Mahiki which he opened in 2005 and which quickly became the party venue of choice of Britain's young royals. A close friend of Prince...

Guy Pelly, the man behind Mahiki and Chelsea nightclub Public is about to open a huge Mexican bar and restaurant on Sloane Square. Tonteria, which he'll open with fellow nightclub entrepreneur Marc...

It was one of the first proper rooftop places to eat and drink when Shoreditch took off, now the Boundary Rooftop bar and grill is going to have a fresh look when it reopens in early Spring 2013. The...

The end of summer is upon us - but there's still time and just enough sun for a few more outdoor pop ups. The first one we have news of today is the welcome reappearance of the Cloudy Bay Shack. This is...

[Updated 12/9/12 with opening date and more menu details] Big news from the team behind Terroirs, Brawn and Soif - Hot Dinners hears that their next restaurant will be taking over the Green Man &...

Burgers have had it good for a while, but there's a new trend in town that's rivalling them for new openings. Restaurants focused on chicken have been steadily increasing in popularity, although...

[Updated 12/9/12 - All the restaurants are now open for soft launch - with 50% off food till Saturday evening] Come September, City workers will have an absolutely massive new food and drink venue...

Famed burger vendors Lucky Chip come to the Player Club Soho, so we head down to feast on sliders and burger ice creams.

Hot Dinners popped down (or rather up) this morning to join some of the industry’s top chefs and restaurateurs at the newly opened Duck and Waffle restaurant on the vertigo-inducing 40th floor of...

Burger Breakout was a success at its one-day pop-up event at St Chad's Place earlier this Summer. Now the man behind it, Dave Aherne (aka Cork Gourmet Guy) is joining up with the Old Crown pub on...

The prestigious Restaurant & Bar Design Awards were held in town last night and out of 620 entries from over 60 countries, London did pretty damned well when it came to winners. City bar The Drift...

Want to know what the perfect environment for tasting whisky is? Well, whisky maker Singleton is joining forces with Mark Hix and others and launching a free two-day food and whisky tasting pop-up...

Covent Garden's Opera Quarter continues its food boom with another new restaurant opening up this month. Condesa is a tapas bar opening on Maiden Lane later this month from the people behind Barrio...

Like so many other people, we freely admit to being glued to the screens during The Great British Bake Off, and when we met Mary Berry in person last year we totally lost it and became gibbering fan...

Already a dab hand at pop ups, having recently completed a long residency in Covent Garden (followed by a permanent place there), Canteen are now producing the ultimate canteen, a transport cafe in...

Danish cuisine couldn't be more of the moment, so you should be excited about the prospect of a special week-long pop up from Denmark heading London's way. The Danish Bar will be on New Oxford...