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Hot Dinners has jetted off to New York for a few days to eat and shop our way through the city that never sleeps. The trip got off to a pretty great start when the lovely people at BA upgraded us to...

Hot Dinners caught up with L'Enclume chef Simon Rogan to find out his plans for the Marylebone restaurant and to see if this means he’s had enough of country life.

It's all very well putting great food on the plate, but if the place you're eating in looks like a dog's dinner, then there's no question that it detracts from the joy of eating out. Good restaurant...

Top foodie things worth trying this weekend Forget firing up the barbecue yourself. Head on down to the South Bank where Pitt Cue Co are doing a storming business out of a custom trailer under...

As anyone with a school-age child will be able to tell you, raising funds for a school is all down to the calibre of people you can persuade to sit on the event committee. So we're pretty impressed...

With Jose Pizarro busy winning accolades for his newly-opened restaurant in Bermondsey, his previous venture Tierra Brindisa has been getting an overhaul in Soho. Previously a fully-fledged Spanish...

Hot Dinners braved the placard-wielding demonstrators to try out The Playboy Club in Mayfair last night. Truth be told, once inside, you'd see more flesh on any episode of The Only Way Is Essex than...

Jamie Oliver’s empire building continues apace with the news today that his Jamie’s Italian chain is to open a massive new restaurant in Islington. The new restaurant will be just a stone’s throw...

Update. You can now email your reservation requests to: info@roganic.co.uk and the reservations phone line opens on June 6. The restaurant opens mid-June. Twitter was all of a flutter just before...

An already impressive line-up of names due to cook at the London Eye for the 2011 London Restaurant Festival has been boosted by the  arrival of two new chefs. We hear that Hélène Darroze and...

What is Massimo?It’s a new London Italian restaurant run by Massimo Riccoli, who also runs the fish-only Rosetta in Rome. Where is it?Just near Embankment tube – inside the new Corinthia Hotel,...

MasterChef finalist Tom Whitaker may have lost out on the big trophy, but he's jumped straight back into the kitchen. The advertising exec from Putney has been spending time working at City...

Given the total meltdown London's foodie network went into the last time the chaps behind Hawksmoor opened a new restaurant, we fully expect news that a third Hawsksmoor is on the way will send...

Street food in PeckhamNorth Londoners are going to have put on their trekking boots if they want to be part of one of the buzziest food events in town. The event in question is Street Food @ The Rye...

All manner of foodies descended on the V&A last night for the Waitrose Summer Party. Hot Dinners spotted Raymond Blanc, Heston Blumenthal and Saturday Kitchen’s wine buff Olly Smith in the crowds as well...

What is Adam Simmonds at Danesfield House?Adam Simmonds is the fine dining restaurant at Danesfield House, a luxury hotel situated in a massive 19th century mansion overlooking a bend in the Thames...

You've got to love London. How many other cities in the world would you find a Hawaiian sandwich shop and a Peruvian pop-up to entertain the foodie massive? The pop-up in question is Limanation, a...

Hot on the heels of our exclusive that Pitt Cue Co would be running a BBQ trailer under Hungerford Bridge on the South Bank for four months, launching on Friday, comes news that another barbecue...

The genius marketing partnership that is the tie-in between Heston Blumenthal and Waitrose continues with news today that Heston has created a very special burger for the supermarket...just in time...

We know how fond Londoners are of their meat, so we'll expect queues round the block when Pitt Cue Co unveil their BBQ trailer on the South Bank this coming Friday (20 May). The trailer is the...