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What's Novikov all about? It's the first restaurant outside Russia for Moscow's biggest restaurateur Arkady Novikov. Where is it? On Berkeley Street - opposite Nobu Berkeley, it takes over much of...

Hot Dinners popped into the recently opened Byron on Rathbone Place this week for an evening of beef and booze, Kentucky-style. We were there for the launch of a new section to the burger...

Opening right next door and by the same people behind Gaucho on Sloane Avenue, new South American bar Galante opens this week with a cocktail and bar menu inspired by the 1930s Art Deco cocktail era...

The body of a chef who trained at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen has been discovered in a South London garden. The grim discovery was made just hours before the chef's former boss was due to go on to...

Congratulations are in order for two London restaurants today that picked up awards at the Sustainable Restaurant Awards ceremony this morning. The award for Sustainable Restaurant Group of the Year was...

We absolutely love the story today in the Daily Mail (sorry about that) where they've brought together all the MP's whinges about the food and drink operations in Parliament. Apparently they're all...

Italian restaurant and wine bar Enoteca Super Tuscan soft-launches today in Spitalfields. We caught up with owner Nick Grossi to find out more. You share a name with Grossi wines who are supplying...

Updated 20/1/12: Looks like our sources could be wrong folks. Asked today on Twitter whether he's taking over at Claridges, Meyer replied: 'No such plans'.  Hot Dinners heard the hottest of hot...

Hawksmoor have been seriously busy over the past year opening new restaurants, so it's nice to hear that they're going back to their roots and are revamping their original Spitalfields restaurant...

The Cornish Grill Sunday lunch events at Redhook in Farringdon kick off once more on a particularly strong note this year with Alyn Williams the first chef in their kitchens on Sunday 29 January...

The latest awards of the season have arrived with the announcement at midnight last night (very dramatic!) from the AA who have revealed seven new winners of three AA rosettes across Britain.  These...

There's an interesting new opening coming up in Wimbledon - the first offshoot of popular Copenhagen chain Sticks 'n' Sushi is arriving mid-March. They currently have nine branches in Denmark and...

Massive news over at Harrods today as the iconic Knightsbridge store scores a huge coup in getting three great chefs to join them. The first new face is Richard Corrigan who will take over the Sea...

It's a little-known fact that stellar chef Pierre Koffmann is a total rugby nut - so much so, that he says the reason he first came to Britain was not to work but to watch France play England at...

If further proof were needed that London is the epicentre of the food world (well, we always knew that), it's the opening today of Le Cordon Bleu's flagship school...in central London. That means...

It's all go by the river this year. Just a day after we announced the details for the latest riverside Gastropub at Cannon St, than we hear about another riverside restaurant, this time an existing...

We're partial to both oysters and scotch eggs, so the menu at the soon-to-open The Oyster Shed in the City is calling to us siren-style. Situated on Angel Lane, just by Cannon St station, this new...

OK - we love this story by New York's Eater.com concerning two musicians and their reaction to the musak at London's Nobu. Seems that the marvellously named rapper Theophilus London when he was last in...

What can you tell us about Pitt Cue Co? The brainchild of Tom Adams and Jamie Berger, it sees the BBQ trailer folk who created a storm under the Hungerford Bridge last summer, transferring to bricks and...

For years it served up epic fried breakfasts as Alfredos, then it turned into a branch of the sausage franchise S&M, now the listed cafe at 4-6 Essex Road is sticking to its meaty origins and...