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Selfridges has been making great use of its roof in recent summers, kicking things off with Pierre Koffmann's pop up and more recently with Bompas & Parr's boating lake. Now they've announced a new...

It's been a long time coming - with months and months of pop-ups and dish refinements - but the owners of Tsuru sushi are almost ready to open the doors on their new ramen bar in Soho. Tonkotsu,...

(Updated with more menu details) It's managed a spot in the World's 50 Best Restaurant list three times (currently a re-entry at 84) and is apparently a favoured dining spot of Bill and Hillary...

Vegetarians look away now! Knightsbridge upmarket meat restaurant The Rib Room is putting on a menu for early summer which is devoted to its namesake cut. For £85 you can feast on ribs cooked every...

Pret a Diner is an international roaming dining event that takes over impressive spaces for gastronomic events.  They last came to town in October with the Minotaur Installation in the Old Vic...

Fortnum & Mason have just launched the rather elegant Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon so we popped along to take a look. Officially opened earlier this year by Her Majesty, in honour of her diamond...

Sorry if we're a little behind the times, but we've only just found out about Nose to Tail fortnight which actually started on Monday this week. It's an exercise by London Food Link's Ethical Eats...

It takes a brave (or foolhardy) publication to pitch their annual restaurant awards less than 24 hours after the dust has settled on the World's 50 Best list - but Tatler were sticking much closer...

It's all happening in London this summer. On top of the Olympics, Jubilee and Noma pop-up, we're also going to be the next European city to host The Cube. Created by Electrolux and landing in London...

Hard on the heels of his first successful Roast Sunday Maltby Street lunch, former Roganic chef Ben Spalding is heading further south to Battersea for another one-night only affair. On the 14th May...

At first glance this year's list doesn't seem all that exciting - after all the top three restaurants are exactly the same as last year. But if there is one big winner from this year's World's 50...

Whispers, rumours, lies and April Fools, we've heard them all regarding Ferran Adria's possible plans to open a venture in London. The truth is now out: Ferran and his brother Albert are planning a...

  We welcome the Covent Garden meat emporium from the people behind MEATliquor.

Taking over from Jay Rayner as this year's Head of the UK panel for the World's 50 Best list is Richard Vines - Bloomberg's food critic and all round well-connected London foodie. Hot Dinners sat...

If the name ‘#Ribstock’ didn’t already give the game away, then rib lovers, brace yourselves to hear how the ultimate rib festival celebrating all that is finger-licking, tooth-picking and...

The great and the good of the food world (and Hot Dinners) were in Marylebone last night for the launch of chef Andoni Aduriz's book Mugaritz - the story of his Basque restaurant of the same name...

You know, if it ever, ever stops raining (Thanks Drought Order!) we rather like the sound of the rooftop barbecuing lesson that's going to take place at One New Change next month. On the afternoon...

Forget the mad dash back from France for Beaujolais Nouveau - today a group of brewers and restaurateurs are heading into deepest Kent to take part in the first London Hop Shoot Festival. They're...

With Odeon's new gastro-cinema The Lounge getting a lot of press recently, it's good to see that another London cinema getting into the gourmet scene. The Electric Cinema in Notting Hill is...

Brazilian temaki are handheld sushi rolls wrapped in a crisp nori cone that, from a distance, look like particularly healthy ice-creams.  Originally a Japanese food, they're big in Brazil which has...