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He's already a well-known face to any regular at the Ivy restaurant, now Caprice Holdings Director Fernando Peire is trying his hand at television. Peire's the star of a new pilot show, being made...

The government may be dissing his work with school dinners, but his peers still think Jamie Oliver is doing the right thing. The chef has just been voted the UK's most powerful and influential...

Earlier this year, in the announcement of the Michelin awards for 2010, there was a surprise new entry in the form of newcomers for London which had slipped under most people's radar. The Bingham, a...

He may have had to close one of his gastropubs this week, but Gordon Ramsay should take heart that he's still a source of inspiration in America. Only it's not to the catering industry, but the film...

It’s been rumoured for a while that TV chef Silvena Rowe would be launching a restaurant at the celebrity haunt, May Fair Hotel. Now we hear from industry title Caterer Search that the restaurant...

Just weeks ahead of the opening of his new restaurant at the Berkeley Hotel, Pierre Koffmann has just picked up a lifetime achievement award from the Craft Guild of Chefs. Koffmann was given the...

One of the big stories today was the decision by Gordon Ramsay to close his pub in Chiswick, The Devonshire. However, a quick Google on the subject reveals this may looks like a story almost 18...

The most beautiful restaurant in London? The 2010 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards were announced this week and London restaurants picked up five gongs - pretty good considering there were nearly 400...

He's the man behind supercool foodie venue The Loft Project and the chef who took over two years to get his next restaurant, Viajante, just how he wanted it. Hot Dinners meets Nuno Mendes.

Update: The news today (5 October 2010) is that while the Savoy itself will open on Sunday10 October - the restaurants' openings have now been set for 29 November 2010. After what seems like the...

Strolling through Regent’s Park at the weekend for Taste of London, Hot Dinners bumped into Giorgio Locatelli, taking a break from the slicing machine at Reffetorio. He was, it seems, pretty pleased...

The Hot Dinners' team spent eight long hours in the field this week - Regent's Park to be exact - to bring you a guide to the best of this year's Taste of London Festival. Here's our pick of the...

Hot Dinners finds out what makes a farmer from Devon decide on bringing his own take on the ethical restaurant to London

It’s one of the most-anticipated openings this Summer and now Pierre Koffmann has been revealing details of his restaurant, Koffmann’s at the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge to trade title Caterer...

There's been a lot of talk (too much, dare we say it) from food bloggers mainly, and critics, about the quest for the best burger in London. On blogs across the capital, great swatches of digital...

If the weather holds up for the Taste of London festival this week - there'll at least be a refreshing way to cool down. After asking the public to come up with suggestions for a special...

There's a great story today in The Mirror - staff at a Tower Bridge restaurant apparently got so fed up with ranty abuse from former cabinet minister David Mellor, that they taped him. According to...

We have to admit to having been really excited in a geeky, far-too-interested-in-eating-than-can-be-healthy sort of way about our lunch at Viajante. We'd been following the exploits of chef Nuno...

Following hard on the heels of yesterday’s story about Manhattan restaurateurs heading our way, Hot Dinners now hears that hip hotel chain Thompson Hotels will be opening an 85-bedroom hotel in...

Top New York chef Daniel Boulud will be joining 10 London chefs cooking up a storm at this year's London Restaurant Festival in one of the London Eye capsules. The full line-up of chefs taking part...