News & reviews

It may not be our part of town, but even up here in North London word has reached us of the great food Ollie Couillaud's serving up in Wimbledon at his restaurant The Lawn. Now those lucky Wimbledon...

Since Hot Dinners has lived in Islington the site on St John's St where you turn into Rosebery Avenue has been through a series of owners - its most recent incarnation was a rather lacklustre Med...

After a successful launch on Fleet Street, "quick service" Italian restaurant Coco di Mama is already adding another venue. This time they'll be opening on the corner of London Wall and Moorgate,...

We're firmly of the opinion that there can never be too many great tapas restaurants in London, so we're looking forward to the opening of a new Basque restaurant Donostia in Marylebone in June. What...

RAW is one of two festivals of natural wines happening in London this weekend (the other is the Real Wine Fair) Raw will take over the Truman Brewery and there will be dozens of producers at the...

If you're after dinner and a show, we can heartily recommend booking for Rumble in the Jungle - an evening where fisticuffs and food come together. This charity event for Galvin Chance, which helps...

(15/6/12 updated with opening date & soft launch info) Things are hotting up with Corbin and King's (The Wolseley, Delaunay) next spot, Brasserie Zedel which opens just off Piccadilly this summer...

We try out the Stevie Parle's canalside restaurant The Dock Kitchen.

We try out the new sushi and yakitori, originally a hit in Copenhagen, now opened in Wimbledon.

Interesting moves afoot at the Marquess Tavern in Canonbury which has handed control of its kitchens over to the team from Dalston's A Little Of What You Fancy. The Marquess, which was first run by...

(7/6/12 - updated with opening date) 2012 was predicted by many chefs to be the year of Peruvian cuisine and that continues apace with the launch of Lima in Rathbone Place, yet another restaurant...

John DeLucie is one of the big names in New York dining circles, best known for being the original chef and partner of celeb hotspot the Waverley Inn. He's since moved onto his own endeavours,...

It's well known for some of the best views in London, for one of the best (and most famous) managers in Fred Sirieix and for an excellent value set lunch menu.  Now, following the launch of Galvin...

He's one of our favourite London chefs so naturally Hot Dinners was intrigued to hear of a way  we could have Bruno Loubet's food for dinner at home whenever we liked, which didn't involve bundling him...

Tickets have just gone on sale for God Save the Clam - a Jubilee-themed event dreamt up by the people behind Rock Lobsta and Pitt Cue. Described as a 'punk-styled clambake and banshee cocktail bar...

We like the sound of a cinematic pop-up happening in North West London this summer - Salt Yard Group (Salt Yard, Dehesa, Opera Tavern) are going to be teaming up with roaming cinema group Nomad for...

Celebrity photographer Richard Young has scoured the streets of this city snapping pretty much every famous person going over the past 40 years. We thought he'd be the perfect person to kickstart...

There may have been a lot of general tutting on Twitter over the cost of the upcoming Noma pop-up at Claridges, but that hasn't stopped thousands of people snapping up the tables in record time. More...

We try out the new contemporary tapas bar between Clapham and Brixton.

We've already been once to try out Helene Darroze's weekend brunch at the Connaught, but when the chef herself issued a personal invitation to pop back and try the new American dishes she'd added to...