News & reviews

Hot Dinners braved the snow on Wednesday to head down to the launch of the recently-opened Bougie Macaron & Tea at 3 Russell Street in Covent Garden. Run by Frenchman Jean Nedelec, the West End...

We’re liking the sound of the new QV Bar opening on the ground floor of Quo Vadis in January. According to a press release the bar will be run by award-winning mixologist Paul Mant, who’s presided...

Table bookings for Heston Blumenthal’s new Knightsbridge restaurant almost brought booking lines down today as more than 4000 covers were booked in the first five hours of the telephone lines...

At 9am this morning (December 1st) the booking lines opened for Heston Blumenthal's eagerly awaited London restaurant - Dinner by Heston Blumenthal.  Given that it's the first London restaurant to be...

It was one of the biggest restaurant stories of the past few weeks, that Jeremy King and Chris Corbin had finally signed a deal to open a sibling restaurant to their massively successful Piccadilly...

Hot Dinners is full of the festive spirit following a party over at the Danish embassy last night where cookery writer Trine Hahnemann presided over a splendid spread for the Ambassador’s Nordic...

Anyone who's a fan of Ottolenghi, whether it's their restaurants or the cookbook, will be pleased to hear that they're branching out by opening a standalone restaurant called NOPI in Soho next year. As...

Hot Dinners have been following with interest the story of the penniless Latvian filmmaker who embarked on a fortnight of scamming some of London's most expensive restaurants by enjoying lavish...

We're always partial to good sushi here at Hot Dinners and on a freezing winter's night, we're not inclined to go too far to find it. So we were happy to take up the offer of a free sushi-making...

When single mother Holli Ugalde won Hell's Kitchen USA there was a lot of buzz over the fact that she'd be working for Gordon Ramsay at the much-anticipated reopening of the Savoy Grill. But the...

Hot Dinners grabs five minutes with North Road chef Christoffer Hruskova to discover that his culinary influences range much wider than his Danish upbringing.

You know you've really made it in America when you're worthy of being cast in South Park, which is just what's happened to Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver. Our cheffing duo feature in an episode of...

As 007 he was licensed to kill, but now Roger Moore has gone all touchy-feely in getting Knightsbridge store Harvey Nichols to ban foie gras from its restaurant menus. The store made a head start in...

Kate and Wills may be one of the few newly-engaged couples in the country not worrying about the cost of their upcoming nuptuals, but for the rest of us, looking after the pennies and pounds is...

The London Evening Standard last night held a glitzy party in town to celebrate the release of its annual list of movers and shakers - London's 1000 most influential people. Naturally, there were...

Jeremy King and Chris Corbin have just signed on the dotted line to open a sister restaurant to The Wolseley in Aldwych. The new 'European-style brasserie' will be in the No 1 Kingsway building,...

Yesterday we reported on the story of the couple who took Michelin-starred restaurant L'Autre Pied for £572 after they skipped paying the bill through a combination of making a booking under a false...

The hunt is on for a couple of champagne-guzzling con artists who cheated London restaurant L'Autre Pied out of £572 worth of food and drink. According to the article in today's Standard, the couple...

Some interesting restaurant deals and menu promotions on offer in London this week: Bar snacksPalm restaurant wouldn't perhaps spring to mind as a place for a cut-price meal, but their new Prime...

Fans of Come Dine With Me - and we know they are legion - will be thrilled to learn there's going to be a Dragon's Den special of CDWM for Children in Need.The show, which was filmed yesterday, will...