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When Hot Dinners attended the press launch of the 2010 London Restaurant Festival, organisers Fay Maschler and Simon Davis were keen to keep details of some of the key events to themselves, so they...

Looking for some last-minute inspiration on where to dine out for St George's Day? We asked the five English restaurants given the highest cumulative critic score on Hot Dinners what they...

It certainly is a boom time for London restaurants, and particularly for the big names.  We've had Bruno Loubet's recent success and Gordon's generally well received Petrus (even if AA Gill wasn't...

Jellymongers and orchestrators of frankly bizarre food and drink events, Bompas and Parr, are opening up a politically-motivated pop-up in Soho tomorrow. The Parliamentary Waffle House at 66-67...

There’s good news for carnivores in the capital with two new steak restaurants opening their doors this year. If you can't wait for Hawskmoor to open its second restaurant, on the corner of Shelton...

Update - as the restaurant is now open - read the reviews of Koffmann's. According to news from Richard Vines at Bloomberg this morning, Pierre Koffman is returning to the kitchen full time with a...

Very interesting news reached Hot Dinners today regarding Michelin-starred chef Georgio Locatelli. Apparently Locatelli has signed up to open one of two landmark restaurants in the luxury...

All of foodie London appeared to be at the Ivy this evening to celebrate the official launch of the London Restaurant Festival 2010. Hot Dinners spied chefs Thomasina Miers, Rowley Leigh, Jun Tanaka as...

A round-up of the week's restaurant news in London Following the men-only Masterchef final, The Telegraph kickstarted a debate into whether men should be in charge of the  kitchen, with Christopher...

It's rolling pins at dawn as the spat between Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay escalates. Earlier this week, Oliver was quoted in the Radio Times as saying he didn't approve of chefs 'who swear at...

The opening of the new Vue cinema at Westfield Shopping Centre has been such a huge success in attracting large crowds to the centre in the evenings, that it's spurred on a series of well-regarded...

Is Theo Randall thinking of opening somewhere new in London? We ask only because when Hot Dinners caught up with the InterContinental Hotel's chef at the recent La Dolce Vita fair in London, he was...

Jason Atherton has apparently finally taken the plunge and left Maze, just as his book Maze: The Cookbook is being published. In a short piece in tonight’s Evening Standard, it’s being reported that...

As the dust settles on his announcement earlier this year to shut El Bulli for two years, Ferran Adria this morning announced that he'll be opening a pop-up, tapas-style restaurant in central...

Bar Boulud London – the first London restaurant to be opened by New York celebrity chef Daniel Boulud, has named the chef and front of house who’ll be in charge when it opens at the Mandarin...

Hey, we’re not picky – we’ll take plaudits where we can get them, so when Michael Tomasky, columnist for New York Magazine and blogger for the Guardian praised London’s restaurants in a roundabout...

The restaurant at the Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell has long been a good-looking venue in need of a better chef. With Bruno Loubet at the helm, finally this restaurant has the brilliant cooking to go...

Hot Dinners caught up with chef Theo Randall, at Islington’s La Dolce Vita food show and found out what he’s up to next and where he’s eaten well recently.  

The Sunday Times’ Christine Toomey reports in today’s paper of her visit to El Bulli’s Barcelona workshop where Ferran Adria drops a series of hints as to how one might secure a table at El Bulli...

London restaurant news round-up Restaurant industry hours challengedThe parents of a London chef who died this week of complications following a bout of tonsillitis blamed the long hours he was...