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Update - alas the event has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. It's been open less than a year, but Mayfair's Novikov is clearly getting into the London spirit with its decision to host a...

Harrods has been having something of a revolution with its restaurants this year. We've already seen the Galvins opening Galvin Demoiselle earlier this year, along with both Pan Chai and the Mango...

Got a hell of a scoop for you today - with news on the opening date (and special preview deal) for Russell Norman's new Clerkenwell place. Luke Bishop, the Group General Manager confirmed to us...

We've already had the likes of the Opera Tavern serving a secret off-menu burger which could only be ordered with the phrase "I've got the horn".  Now Bermondsey's Antico has got in on the act. The...

We check out the latest addition to the Peruvian dining scene in London.

There's nothing like the prospect of a good feed to offset the horrors of a Monday. And next week you'll be able to do just that if you head for the Endurance pub in Soho where a top London market...

Fifteen years after they opened in Exmouth Market, Sam and Sam Clark are still doing storming business with their Moorish-inspired food at Moro. They've already been named twice - by Claudia Roden...

Jamie Oliver's a very busy man. Not content with having the biggest selling non-fiction book in the UK ever (30 Minute Meals, soon to be followed by its even speedier sequel - 15 Minute Meals), he's...

[Special offer: Hot Dinners readers will get 50% off food at Heliot for the first week of opening from Friday 13th July. To book go to heliotrestaurant.com and quote Hot Dinners when making your...

The dining scene in East London is never short of activity or surprises and this is particularly true when speaking of the most recent crop of new concepts. In the run up to the Games, this area has...

The 2012 London Restaurant Festival kicks off on 1 October and from the early information coming from the organisers - it looks as though this year's festival could be more, well, interesting than...

Bit of a coup for Benares as they nab the 2012 Masterchef winner Shelina Permalloo for their guest chef season. Shelina Permalloo will join Atul Kochhar on 6th August. The pair have apparently...

Burgers. We've reached saturation point in London, right? Not quite yet, it seems. As hot dogs and fried chicken threaten to wrest the zeitgeist upper hand away from the burger in 2012, Soho is...

City workers should look out for two familiar faces today as Raymond Blanc and Thomasina Miers turn street food traders to serve up some teatime burritos. The event marks Blanc's appointment as...

We've already picked The Ship out as one of the must-visit London gastropubs in our London Visitor's Guide. Which makes the reopening of the Thatched House in Hammersmith by the foodies' favourite...

We try out Corbin and King's affordable French brasserie right in the heart of Piccadilly.

We check out the new ramen bar from the people behind Tsuru Sushi.

Jackson Boxer, the chap behind Vauxhall's much-vaunted Brunswick House Cafe, is heading north of the river and opening up a new place in Dalston. Rita's Dining, which opens on Friday 13th July...

Congrats to Polpetto's Head Chef Florence Knight who's just signed her first book deal. The book in question, ONE, is the first in a two-book deal and will be released by Saltyard in May next year...

Back in the summer of 2011, pop-ups were properly in their heyday. From the candle-lit supper club to the high-profile chef affair, there was anything but a shortage of quirky and exciting venues...