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What is Roganic? Simon Rogan is best known for his Cumbrian restaurant L'enclume, a Michelin-starred restaurant which has carved out a serious reputation for serving challenging food from locally...

If you're inspired by Marina O'Loughlin's review of street food in the Metro, you might want to put Wednesday 6th July and Sunday 10th July in your diary. For one night only, Richard Turner, Head...

Rather in the manner of 'have your cake and eat it' we rather like the new idea from the bar at Jun Tanaka's Holborn restaurant Pearl which is offering Londoners the chance to both eat and drink...

Here's Hot Dinners' latest guide to the week ahead. This week, Street Kitchen makes a return to Central London, setting up in Finsbury Square today. Street Kitchen Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel's Street...

Looking for a good restaurant deal?  Then why not try... 50% off food at the Searcy Champagne Bar at One New Change The recently opened Champagne Bar at One New Change (the shopping complex opposite...

Here at Hot Dinners we can't imagine going anywhere, let along joining a sodden, tented mass of humanity in the West Country, without knowing where the best places to eat would be. Yes, yes, we're...

When Westfield in White City first opened its doors to the public, its food offering showed how shopping centres didn't always have to be the place where food on the go went to die. And now their...

Johnnie Mountain, the chef behind The English Pig in the Barbican, has just announced plans to open a new restaurant at Millbank in early October. Mountain, who has made appearances on the Great...

Starting today, Hot Dinners' guide to the week ahead. This week, we have two major new restaurants due to open in London, including the much anticipated Roganic. If you haven't already booked a...

[Updated 1 July 2011: They've just extended their stay at Restaurants in Residence by three days from 5-7 July - so if you didn't get tickets the first time around you might be in luck!] One of Hot...

A foie gras burger with summer truffle created by Pascal Aussignac, head chef at Club Gascon pipped a veritable champions league of chefs to the post for Best in Taste award at Taste of London last...

Eschew the dubious delights of your local school summer fair this month, and head instead for East London where the Art Car Boot Fair at the Truman Brewery offers the chance to pick up a bargain bit...

Eating out in this town can be an expensive business, and while we're sure you all love your fathers very much, it doesn't hurt if there's a special deal on Father's Day. These three London...

It's Braveheart by stealth! A Scottish restaurant is taking over that most English of establishments, M Manze's famous pie and mash shop on Chapel Market in Islington. But sassenachs can breathe...

If you like burgers and you're rather fond of beer, then you might want to head down to Hawksmoor Seven Dials later this month for a special Brews and Burgers night. Both the Seven Dials and...

Food trucks are huge news in the States, so we couldn't be more pleased to see that Street Kitchen, the trailer set up by Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel for last year's London Restaurant Festival, will...

By the fourth day of our trip, it was rapidly becoming clear that our planned restaurant and bar itinerary was - how shall we put it - ever so slightly ambitious. Turns out we couldn't eat three...

If you've got £60 to spare, you might want to get on the blower to Selfridges and book yourself on a pretty special dinner coming up with Angela Hartnett next month. Hartnett will be cooking for one...

On day 3 of our New York trip we’ve established a pattern, go out, find somewhere lovely to eat, head back to the hotel to recover and then go out and do it all again. Today we spared ourselves a...

Another day in New York - another heatwave.  As temperatures scaled to record levels, we sought the respite (and air-conditioning) of some top NYC places on the second day of our visit. The day got...