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The great and the greedy turned out last night for the annual Observer Food Monthly awards at the Freemasons Hall in Covent Garden. Hot Dinners spotted chefs Pierre Koffmann, Benares' Atul Kocchar...

He's a busy chap is Jamie Oliver - not only was he working too hard to accept his award for Best Food Personality at the Observer Food Monthly Awards last night because he was filming in Yorkshire,...

As sore heads all over town celebrate another London Cocktail Week, classic gin brand Tanqueray kept the drinks flowing with an upscale dinner at Babylon Restaurant at the Kensington Roof Gardens...

Have you ever arrived back from enjoying the delightful boulangeries and charcuteries of France, only to be greeted in Gatwick by the depressing smell of “abattoir slurry” that, according to food...

There's really no competition: 2011's most anticipated restaurant by a city mile has got to be Heston Blumenthal's new restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge. So when Hot Dinners...

Hot Dinners gets a red-hot exclusive on what we can expect at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal from its Head Chef Ashley Palmer Watts

Notting Hill restaurant The Ledbury has ousted The Fat Duck from its spot as National Restaurant of the Year, according to Restaurant Magazine. In their 2010 awards, announced in London tonight, The...

Quizmeister Anne Robinson cowed the unruly masses at the London Restaurant Festival's Big Quiz last night which was held at Le Cafe Anglais. Changing tack from last year's festival quiz which pitted...

It's been the poorest-held secret in restaurant circles that Angela Hartnett wanted her freedom. Today she finally announced that she's buying her restaurant Murano from Gordon Ramsay Holdings and...

Chef Anthony Demetre is best known for the highly successful Soho and Mayfair restaurants he runs with partner Will Smith, Arbutus and Wild Honey.  On the eve of the opening of the duo's new...

They've often been likened to modern-day Willy Wonka's now foodie experience-creators Bompas & Parr are going to be opening an pop-up Chewing Gum Factory at Whiteleys Shopping Centre in Bayswater for a...

There was an astonishingly A-list chef turnout last night at Brown's Hotel at a party for the retiring Editor of the Michelin Guide, Derek Bulmer. Brown's, as Bulmer explained, was chosen as it was...

Visitors to this year's Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park won't have a problem finding somewhere good to eat, when all that deciding which modern masterpiece will look best over the fireplace gives...

Hot Dinners popped down last night to the Tramshed in Old Street to the launch of London's latest pop-up - the Innocent 5 for 5 Cafe. With food created by TV chef Gizzi Erskine, the pop up is a...

There was a frisson of excitement at last night's launch of the Savoy Truffle Club's London Restaurant Festival pop-up when chef Gavin Billenness's heavily pregnant wife (who'd greeted us all at the...

For a city with a whacking great river running through it, London is pretty poorly served with riverfront bars. So we're relatively excited to hear about the OXO Tower's plans to launch a new bar...

It's been a good year for Spitalfields restaurant Galvin La Chapelle. In May it was chosen as Tatler's Best Restaurant. In June it won best overall designed restaurant at the Restaurant & Bar Design...

At Pearl Restaurant last night for an evening hosted by chef Jun Tanaka for Action Against Hunger, we discovered another date to put in your diary over the London Restaurant Festival. We've already...

After last year's hugely successful launch of Polpo - the immediately popular Venetian bacarro by way of New York - there was almost immediate speculation on what restaurateur Russell Norman would...

Hot Dinners grabs five minutes with Polpetto chef Tom Oldroyd to find out why his Venetian small dishes are a big hit in Soho.