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Dine Mile High Club pops up in West London

Information: 28 January 2013

It's about this time - when Christmas is a distant memory and it's AGES until summer, when everyone's thoughts turn to holidays. But the problem with holidays is the travelling bit - particularly if...

Ben Spalding starts a series of weekly dinners

Information: 28 January 2013

Ben Spalding has had his fair share of press lately. Firstly with a largely positive response to his time at John Salt and then for his rather untimely departure. We know he's on the hunt for a...

Britain's first National Waiters Day will put waiters in the spotlight

Information: 25 January 2013

With so much focus on chefs, workers in the waiting industry are not always given the recognition they deserve. In light of this comes the brainchild of Fred Sirieix, General Manager of...

Claude Bosi to launch revamped Malt House in Fulham.

Information: 24 January 2013

24/1/13 - Updated with menu details. He's a man who's made the headlines recently, but now Claude Bosi's back with a new pub that he's pulling together with his brother Cedric. The pair previously...

Angela Hartnett's Lime Wood restaurant in New Forest prepares for opening

Information: 24 January 2013

Could 2013 be the year Londoners are enticed out of town by a rash of new country house openings where the food promises to be really good? While Skye Gyngell works on her restaurant at Heckfield...

Michel Roux Jr launches Cactus Studios cookery school

Information: 24 January 2013

The TV company behind such shows as Saturday Kitchen and The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain are making a bold move into the real world by opening up a cookery school. And they've got some of the...

Spit and Roast invite Street Food traders to The Princess Alice to join a Jamboree

Information: 23 January 2013

They're currently running a popular residency at the Princess Alice on Commercial Road, and now chicken masters Spit and Roast are inviting more street food traders down to join the party. They'll...

Goodman Canary Wharf launch Monday Californian wine deals

Information: 23 January 2013

Canary Wharf workers might want to start booking in lunch or evening meetings at Goodman Canary Wharf on Mondays for the next five weeks as the steakhouse launches a brief series of super deals on...

Alan Yau does Thai food in Islington - we Test Drive Naamyaa Cafe

Information: 22 January 2013

Alan Yau comes to Islington with the first outpost of a new chain, modelled after Bangkok cafes.

Fortnums host a pop-up bakery with Hix, Kimber, Hollywood and Mary Berry

Information: 22 January 2013

Baking couldn't be any bigger right now - with the great British bake-off being one of the programmes Hot Dinners was utterly gripped by last year. So it makes sense that Fortnum & Mason are...

A veritable brigade of chefs turn out for Helene Darroze's Galette du Rois party at the Connaught

Information: 22 January 2013

Well it was wall-to-wall chefs and restaurant folk at the party last night at The Connaught to celebrate Helene Darroze's Galette Du Rois - the cake baked in celebration of The Epiphany. Squeezed...

Michael Winner former critic for the Sunday Times dies

Information: 21 January 2013

Michael Winner, film director and longstanding restaurant critic for the Sunday Times has died aged 77. Winner, whose column Winner's Dinners, ran for 19 years, published his last restaurant review...

Kimchi Cult popup at the Black Heart pub in Camden

Information: 21 January 2013

If you're still on a health kick for January look away now. Because the popular Korean streetfood peeps at Kimchi Cult have just kicked off a month long residency at the Black Heart in Camden. So if...

Oblix restaurant from the people behind Zuma to take over 32nd floor of the Shard

Information: 17 January 2013

Among 2013's most anticipated new openings are those in the massive column of steel and glass that's now towering over London - the Shard. Plans for the restaurant from Rainer Becker and Arjun Waney...

We try the entire menu by Neil Rankin at John Salt

Information: 16 January 2013

Ever since it was revealed that the former Pitt Cue Co chef Neil Rankin was taking over after Ben Spalding's departure at John Salt, anticipation has been slowly building to fever pitch. The menu...

A tale of two pies - Piebury Corner and Tapping the Admiral

Information: 15 January 2013

While everyone else around us seems to be counting the calories and steering clear of the demon drink, you can rest assured that here at Hot Dinners, we haven't lost our eye for a carb-loaded meal...

So much more than a steakhouse - we try 34 in Mayfair

Information: 15 January 2013

This most recent addition to Richard Caring's stable of Mayfair restaurants works like a well oiled machine to keep diners very, very happy..

Dabbous awarded three AA rosettes

Information: 15 January 2013

Congrats to Ollie Dabbous and his team this morning with the news that Dabbous has been awarded three rosettes by the AA Guide. It's the only London restaurant to be included in the new awards of...

The Five Fields fine dining restaurant opens in Chelsea

Information: 14 January 2013

It isn't often that a superhot new restaurant opening almost sneaks up on us - but The Five Fields threatened to do just that. Opening at some point this Spring, this Chelsea restaurant has an...

Chicken food truck Roost starts residency in Soho

Information: 14 January 2013

Popular chicken street food truck Roost is heading indoors for a Soho residency. They'll be sheltering from the winter cold at the Sun & 13 Cantons, Great Pulteney Street from 4 February to Saturday 30...

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