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Sloane Square's The Oriel opens at Heathrow Airport

Information: 25 January 2012

In an interesting move, the Oriel restaurant which used to take pride of place on Sloane Square until its lease was abruptly terminated by disgruntled landlord Lord Cadogan, is now moving to a new...

Former Momofuku chef's four day residency at The Ten Bells

Information: 25 January 2012

Take an already hotter than hot restaurant pop-up (The Ten Bells) and add in a four day residency from an insanely well-connected chef and you have a collaboration that any London foodie ought to...

Club dining - test driving Kitchen Joel Antunes at the Embassy Mayfair

Information: 25 January 2012

What can you tell us about Kitchen Joel Antunes? In the 90’s one of the most popular dining destinations in London had to be Les Saveurs in Mayfair. Run by the impressively trained chef Joel...

Sushi with a little Moscow pizazz - we check out Novikov in Mayfair

Information: 25 January 2012

What's Novikov all about? It's the first restaurant outside Russia for Moscow's biggest restaurateur Arkady Novikov. Where is it? On Berkeley Street - opposite Nobu Berkeley, it takes over much of...

Byron launch new bourbon burger and bourbon list

Information: 24 January 2012

Hot Dinners popped into the recently opened Byron on Rathbone Place this week for an evening of beef and booze, Kentucky-style. We were there for the launch of a new section to the burger...

Galante Argentine bar opens on Sloane Avenue

Information: 24 January 2012

Opening right next door and by the same people behind Gaucho on Sloane Avenue, new South American bar Galante opens this week with a cocktail and bar menu inspired by the 1930s Art Deco cocktail era...

Jamie Oliver former trainee found dead in South London

Information: 23 January 2012

The body of a chef who trained at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen has been discovered in a South London garden. The grim discovery was made just hours before the chef's former boss was due to go on to...

Wahaca, OXO Tower and more win sustainability awards

Information: 23 January 2012

Congratulations are in order for two London restaurants today that picked up awards at the Sustainable Restaurant Awards ceremony this morning. The award for Sustainable Restaurant Group of the Year was...

MPs complain about House of Commons chips

Information: 23 January 2012

We absolutely love the story today in the Daily Mail (sorry about that) where they've brought together all the MP's whinges about the food and drink operations in Parliament. Apparently they're all...

Italian restaurant and wine bar Enoteca Super Tuscan opens in Spitalfields

Information: 19 January 2012

Italian restaurant and wine bar Enoteca Super Tuscan soft-launches today in Spitalfields. We caught up with owner Nick Grossi to find out more. You share a name with Grossi wines who are supplying...

Is New York's Danny Meyer taking over from Gordon Ramsay at Claridges?

Information: 19 January 2012

Updated 20/1/12: Looks like our sources could be wrong folks. Asked today on Twitter whether he's taking over at Claridges, Meyer replied: 'No such plans'. Hot Dinners heard the hottest of hot...

Hawksmoor to revamp Spitalfields restaurant with brand new bar

Information: 17 January 2012

Hawksmoor have been seriously busy over the past year opening new restaurants, so it's nice to hear that they're going back to their roots and are revamping their original Spitalfields restaurant...

Alyn Williams does Cornish Grill Sunday lunch at Redhook

Information: 17 January 2012

The Cornish Grill Sunday lunch events at Redhook in Farringdon kick off once more on a particularly strong note this year with Alyn Williams the first chef in their kitchens on Sunday 29 January...

Roganic and Hakkasan win three rosettes each from the AA Guide

Information: 17 January 2012

The latest awards of the season have arrived with the announcement at midnight last night (very dramatic!) from the AA who have revealed seven new winners of three AA rosettes across Britain. These...

Copenhagen's Sticks 'n' Sushi chain opens first London restaurant in Wimbedon

Information: 16 January 2012

There's an interesting new opening coming up in Wimbledon - the first offshoot of popular Copenhagen chain Sticks 'n' Sushi is arriving mid-March. They currently have nine branches in Denmark and...

Richard Corrigan and Galvin Bros to launch restaurants in Harrods

Information: 16 January 2012

Massive news over at Harrods today as the iconic Knightsbridge store scores a huge coup in getting three great chefs to join them. The first new face is Richard Corrigan who will take over the Sea...

Pierre Koffmann to run pop-up restaurant at Twickenham stadium

Information: 16 January 2012

It's a little-known fact that stellar chef Pierre Koffmann is a total rugby nut - so much so, that he says the reason he first came to Britain was not to work but to watch France play England at...

Flagship Le Cordon Bleu school opens in Bloomsbury with its own cafe

Information: 13 January 2012

If further proof were needed that London is the epicentre of the food world (well, we always knew that), it's the opening today of Le Cordon Bleu's flagship school...in central London. That means...

Marriott County Hall opens Gillray's Steakhouse and Bar

Information: 12 January 2012

It's all go by the river this year. Just a day after we announced the details for the latest riverside Gastropub at Cannon St, than we hear about another riverside restaurant, this time an existing...

Seafood and scotch eggs at The Oyster Shed by Cannon Street

Information: 11 January 2012

We're partial to both oysters and scotch eggs, so the menu at the soon-to-open The Oyster Shed in the City is calling to us siren-style. Situated on Angel Lane, just by Cannon St station, this new...

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