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We're already excited about the upcoming London Restaurant Festival (4-18 October) - what with the supper clubs, festival menus and special events. Now there's one more reason to look forward it -...

More details have been released today about the opening of Brawn, the new restaurants from the owners of Covent Garden's Terroirs. Brawn, which will be located at 49 Columbia Road will be open daily...

When Richard Corrigan tweeted the other week that he'd just launched a new all-burger tasting menu at his Mayfair restaurant Corrigan's, well we felt honour-bound to try it out. So we snagged an...

An eclectic group of actors, comics and reality TV stars gathered at Shoreditch House last night to launch ActionAid's Millione Rosé - the £7.99 wine of which £1 of each bottle sold will be used to...

We rather like the sound of the Super Natural pop-up project in South Kensington. Part of London Design Week 2010 it's part installation, part sensory overload and part café aimed at celebrating the...

This week's London restaurant news: In which we learnt: the rather depressing news that one in five meals at the London Olympics will be a McDonalds that Notting Hill's Eight over Eight will be...

It's great writing about food and restaurants in London right now, but after a special lunch at The Ledbury today, hosted by Tourism South Wales, where Sydney chefs  Mark Best from Marque and Peter...

Hot Dinners was over in Bayswater last night for the opening of the new Oyster Bar at Rowley Leigh's Le Café Anglais where the place was mobbed with foodies and locals checking out the new layout...

Now here's something you don't see every day - a 6ft-high tower of poppadoms.The side order stack was created for the launch of this year's Brick Lane Curry Festival, breaking the record for the...

Five of London's Street Food sellers (or Mobilers as they apparently prefer to be called) are celebrating as they picked up six of the nine awards on offer at this year's Street Food Awards which...

OK - we're officially very, very excited. The first interview with Heston Blumenthal about his upcoming opening at the Mandarin Oriental in London has just gone up at www.cntraveller.com and it's...

Nina and Tim Zagat, the people behind the influential Zagat Guide, hosted a party this morning at Koffmann's at The Berkeley to announce the winners in this year's guide. The 2011 London Restaurants...

Jacques Chirac once sneeringly referred to the UK as having the second ‘worst food’ in the world. Taking the top spot on that coveted list? Finland.Aiming to prove that the UK and Finland have more...

The people behind minimalist deli/restaurant Ottolenghi have just announced plans to open a new restaurant on Warwick Street in Soho which breaks free from their existing format of a restaurant and...

Eight London gastropubs have entered the 2011 edition of Michelin’s Eating Out in Pubs guide for the first time.Islington drinkers fare particularly well with three of their locals making the grade...

Ever since the launch Head Chef Daniel Cox left Roux at Parliment Square just two months after it opened, we've been wondering who'll take over Michel Roux's Westminster restaurant.Now Hot Dinners...

Hot Dinners always looks out for Olive magazine's annual Alternative Restaurant Awards for a fresh look at the restaurants worth celebrating in any year. This year's list features no fewer than 24...

Residents of Kentish Town rejoice! The opening of new restaurant Kentish Canteen on the Kentish Town Road looks set to kickstart eating out in this area. Owner Wendy Sinclair and her husband have...

One of the key events that has got us excited about the 2010 London Restaurant Festival is the Street Kitchen. This is a project being run by Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel - a gourmet food truck which...

Simply reading about Britain’s biggest restaurant, Cosmo has made Hot Dinners come over all weary. According to an article in today’s Independent, the eaterie, which opens in November in Croydon’s...