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Forget celebrating Harvest Festival with a random selection of assorted canned fruit. Head over to Dalston instead where East London chocolatiers Niko B Organic Chocolates are going to be hosting a...

Tickets have just gone on sale for an amazing one-night-only dinner that will allow London diners to enjoy the cuisine from Lyon's legendary Paul Bocuse restaurant without having to leave the city. As a...

We're rather partial to a good pop-up restaurant, but details released last night of one planned for the 2011 London Restaurant Festival sound particularly brilliant. The Minotaur will take over the...

Nick House and Piers Adam, who own the much favoured by young royals Mahiki as well as running Guy Ritchie's Mayfair pub The Punchbowl, have opened their first gastropub. The Markham Inn opened very...

The Hippodrome Leicester Square has been many things over the years: most recently it's been host to cabaret The Clique, before that it was a Peter Stringfellow nightclub, in the 60s and 70s it was...

Honestly, we're rather flummoxed by a press release we've just had in for a pop-up restaurant experience that will be gracing Dalston’s Ridley Road Market for four weeks this September. Ridley's...

Further proof that Covent Garden is the hottest place to open a restaurant right now comes with today's news that Canteen is opening an all-day restaurant and bar in the heart of Covent Garden. Canteen...

The owners of Italian restaurant Babbo are to join a mass of new restaurants opening up around Soho. Their new restaurant will have exposed kitchens on two floors and a focus on food for sharing. ...

Poilâne, the renowned French Artisan bakery, which already has a shop open on Elisabeth Street is to open its first London restaurant on Cadogan Gardens in Chelsea. The all-day dining restaurant...

A new bistro, the 10 Cases, is launching in Covent Garden. We caught up with co-owner Ian Campbell to find out more about the restaurant. How did you get started? The 10 Cases is basically 2 people. Will...

A veritable brigade of chefs and other foodie people turned up at Harrods tonight for the launch of Thomas Keller's French Laundry pop-up. Hot Dinners spotted Michel Roux Jnr, Fergus Henderson, Jay...

With one of the lengthiest list of awards around, the Harden's Guide certainly offers an in-depth view of the London restaurant scene. Culled from surveys submitted by over 8,000 people the 2012...

Annual restaurant awards can be a bit of a dull affair, so we always look forward to olive magazine's Alternative Restaurant Awards which go beyond the usual suspects to root out some really...

Here's a round-up of some events, openings, special menus and more that you'll have to look forward to over September. Le Caprice reopens Having closed during August for refurbishment, the revived...

With British Food Fortnight kicking off on 17 September, Harvey Nichols are getting into the spirit by hosting a special pop up.  Sharpham Park, best known for its organic Spelt farming in Somerset. ...

What can you tell us about the Admiral Codrington? Once the roaming ground of the determined and thirsty Sloane ranger, the Admiral Codrington has somewhat sobered in its reputation, and clientele...

Hot Dinners were fans of the marvellously old-fashioned Quality Chop House on Farringdon Road with its frontage proudly declaring 'Progressive Working Class Caterers' and retro British food so we...

Fifty years on from the day it first opened, the Rib Room at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in Knightsbridge is getting ready to reopen with one hell of a facelift. Designer Martin Brudnizki -...

If you can’t afford the airfare to NY to try out the rather fabulous wares of The Big Gay Ice-cream Truck (as Hot Dinners did earlier this summer) then an alternative is at hand.  The Ice-creamists, who...

As the Young Turks pop-up takes place this week, Frank's Cafe and Campari Bar in Peckham is already preparing for its next event. The Rivington Grill, Simon Wadham's Shoreditch and Greenwich...