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Hot Dinners caught up with Fred Sirieix, General Manager of Galvin at Windows to talk about his passion for good service and the all-important Magic Touch.

We've been a fan of Hotel du Vin since the earliest days of the boutique hotel chain, when Robin Hutson (now at Lime Wood) and Gerard Basset (2010's World's Best Sommelier) opened their first place...

The competition amongst London hotels to have the hottest chefs working in their restaurants ramped up this month when Heston Blumenthal opened at the Mandarin Oriental. But other establishments...

It must be emotionally draining to open a restaurant burdened with the high expectations that Dinner by Heston has had, and certainly Blumenthal and head chef Ashley Palmer Watts looked both...

Take an extra long lunch break tomorrow (Friday 4th February) and head down to Brick Lane where Gordon Ramsay will be volunteering his services at a pop-up curry stall in aid of Red Nose Day 2011. Ramsay,...

Hot Dinners can still remember how excited we were the first time we got to put the enomatic machine at Selfridges Wonder Bar through its paces (and are in mourning for the disappearance of Bar...

As we happened to be wandering around Park Lane last Friday, we took the opportunity to take a quick look around London's revamped Four Seasons Hotel before the hordes descended. The hotel, which...

If you're a subscriber to the Hot Dinners newsletter, you'll know that our last missive eulogised the benefits of following us on Twitter or Facebook. Well just over a week after sending that out,...

So the menu for Dinner by Heston is now up on the restaurant's website giving Hot Dinners a chance to peruse the menu as the restaurant opens its doors to diners this lunchtime. The set lunch, which is a...

If you’re despairing of ever receiving your January paycheque then the clever people at First Restaurant Group have come up with an idea for making your money go further this month. They’re putting...

Spitalfields brasserie Le Bouchon Breton was picked as the UK’s best place for a drink whilst out dining  in trade title Harpers Wine & Spirit’s 2011 Drinking Out Excellence Awards (that must have...

Hot Dinners rarely – if ever -  say no to anything involving champagne, so we were pretty happy to be invited to the launch of Searcy’s new champagne bar at Paddington station. Set in the glassed-off section...

We’re huge, huge fans of Russell Norman’s Polpo and Polpetto (and let’s face it, who isn’t) so we’re properly excited to hear that they’re expanding Polpo. Anything that helps improve the chances of...

The winners of the most recent series of Raymond Blanc’s reality show The Restaurant have just opened a bar on Goodge Street. JJ and James’s new joint – the London Cocktail club at 61 Goodge Street...

Quo Vadis has always been a favourite Hot Dinners haunt (particularly whenever we manage to gain access to the members' club upstairs) so when we were invited to try out the new QV Bar, we may have...

There are many items for sale which the merest whiff of association with a celebrity chef can help shift - books, saucepans, stock cubes, to name just a few. However its seems as though London...

All the speculation in the world couldn't persuade Michelin UK to reveal who'd got a Michelin star this year ahead of today's announcement. So we were all gathered at Michelin House to find out...

Eager diners who were quick off the mark to book a table at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental may have to rush online to book a second table as Heston revealed today that the...

Hot Dinners finds out from outgoing Michelin Guide Editor Derek Bulmer what propels a restaurant into the stars.

We're looking forward to the opening next week of Opera Tavern, the new Covent Garden offering from the people behind Salt Yard and Dehesa, particularly now we've found out it will open with a soft...