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There are several New Yorkers who must have been watching the successful Spring launch of Daniel Boulud's Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge particularly carefully. It seems...

Here at Hot Dinners, like many other foodies, we would easily rate our lunch at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck as the best lunch we've ever had.  So we're keeping a close eye on the Mandarin Oriental, where...

'The contestants include an Italian who doesn't know how to make pasta. A woman who burned Ramsay's lips by laying on the hot sauce when a few drops would have worked. A Hannibal Lecter wanna-be (he...

As we write this, the rain is sluicing down on the Hot Dinners roof, but we're an optimistic bunch and apparently summer is on its way back this weekend. So what better reason do you need than the...

Zut Alors! There's a French invasion of London happening. We've already had successful openings from Daniel Boulud and Bruno Loubet this year. Pierre Koffman is gearing up for launch in...

Evening Standard restaurant critic Fay Maschler is passing over to the other side - she's just announced the opening of her first restaurant project. Maschler, in partnership with Simon Davis - who...

If we haven't already whet your appetite for the London Restaurant Festival, then let us do better. This morning, the festival organisers revealed a few more key details for this year's festival...

Home county foodies alert - Hibiscus chef Claude Bosi, whose restaurant recently entered the World's 50 Best Restaurant list, has new plans to open a gastropub somewhere around London. In an...

We find out from Hibiscus chef Claude Bosi about the effect of being on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list and aiming for three Michelin stars....

If Hot Dinners had a pied-a-terre in Mayfair (we wish) then we’re pretty sure Mount Street Deli would soon be on speed-dial. Opening tomorrow, this venture brings together dishes from some of...

Judging from the sheer weight of positive tweets and blogs flooding the internet since it opened its doors just over a week ago, Bar Boulud will be a huge success. And why wouldn’t it, when you...

It’s just as well the landing stage outside the Waterside Inn in Bray was up to the cumulative weight of hundreds of chefs. This cracking shot was sent to us, courtesy of Yes Chef! Magazine, showing...

Eagle-eyed blogger goodforlunch spotted a familiar looking graphic in the window opposite Bocca di Lupo.’Too far to be Spuntino’ he posited. So Hot Dinners called up BdL to find out what was going...

If you're too busy, lazy or just too much of a committed Londoner to be tempted into the English countryside over the summer, we've just heard about a farm event set on bringing the taste of the...

A round-up of this week's London foodie news: Let’s start off on a positive note with the Independent’s story that burgers may not be bad for you after all. According to a series of new scientific...

AA Gill may not have worried about revealing details from this year’s London Restaurant Festival when he blurted out his invitation to take part in a French food debate, but chef Jun Tanaka is much...

Chef Jun Tanaka talks about what goes on behind the swing door in London's best restaurants.

There were some interesting results at last night’s Tatler Laurent-Perrier & Taste of London Restaurant Awards 2010. While Best Kitchen for Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley wasn’t a real surprise, perhaps...

Marcus Wareing has announced plans to open a second restaurant in London next year. In an interview in today's Guardian, Wareing tells the paper he'll be following his former mentor Gordon Ramsay's...

Should the Tories finally hammer out an agreement with the Lib Dems, they may wish to celebrate in style by ordering the gulls’ egg omelette on the menu for a very limited period at their favourite...