News & reviews

With pop-ups literally popping up all over the shop in London, it's sometimes hard to work out which are the ones you really shouldn't miss. One this week in Shoreditch - Nine French Place certainly...

Lucky old East Londoners, they're always getting some hip new cafe or restaurant that sounds right up Hot Dinners' street. The latest opening we've heard of is Tuck Shop which will open on Dereham...

The influx of American chefs to London may soon see the tide turn in the other direction if a story in this weekend's Telegraph has any merit. It seems that Heston Blumenthal is now in talks to open...

City favourite 1 Lombard Street has recently undergone a refurbishment and Hot Dinners popped down last week for a preview of the new interior and menu. Opened in 1998 by former banker Soren Jessen, 1...

If you weren't paying close attention to Twitter last week you may well have missed the news that Manhattan restaurateur Keith McNally has finally confirmed that he'll be opening a restaurant in...

Big news today with the announcement that Masterchef's Gregg Wallace is opening a restaurant at the Bermondsey Square Hotel. The 80 seat restaurant (with a further 100 seats outdoors) will be called...

In an interesting move, the Oriel restaurant which used to take pride of place on Sloane Square until its lease was abruptly terminated by disgruntled landlord Lord Cadogan, is now moving to a new...

Take an already hotter than hot restaurant pop-up (The Ten Bells) and add in a four day residency from an insanely well-connected chef and you have a collaboration that any London foodie ought to...

What can you tell us about Kitchen Joel Antunes? In the 90’s one of the most popular dining destinations in London had to be Les Saveurs in Mayfair. Run by the impressively trained chef Joel...

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...