News & reviews

It's going to be a very merry Christmas this year for seven homeless youngsters whose raw talent and enthusiasm scooped them jobs with Wahaca who've teamed up with the Prince's Trust. Warms the very...

The Spanish restaurant Camino is a rare thing indeed in King's Cross - a decent bar and restaurant.  Happily doing business for a few years in the Regent's Quarter (opposite the old Scala), Camino is...

Hot Dinners finds out from The Spectator's wine correspondent Simon Hoggart, how to order the right wines when going out to eat  

In Marylebone last night for the launch of Simon Hoggart's new book (more of which later), Hot Dinners took a detour by way of posh kitchen store Divertimenti. There we bumped into another book...

It’s been six of one, half a dozen of the other for the Michelin Guide this week. On the positive side, the guide was given a huge boost when the latest Hong Kong version came out, awarding one of...

Russell Norman’s Polpo was one of the first restaurants in London to open by Twitter. Hot Dinners caught up with Russell to find out one why he wants to bring a bit of the West Village to London’s...

One of the biggest pieces of restaurant-related news this week was Mark Sargeant resigning from Gordon Ramsay Holdings to work as creative director at The Swan Collection, which runs the Swan at the...

Gary Rhodes has been widely touted as being a frontrunner to take over the iconic revolving restaurant at the top of the BT Tower, but it seems the Evening Standard jumped the gun this week when...

It seems to be a particularly busy time for restaurant openings at the moment, and one man is in more demand than anyone.  After the extremely successful opening of Hix in Soho, Mark Hix isn't...

London chefs may have missed out on the Independent newspaper's top award (chef of the year went to Whatley Manor's Martin Burge), but several of the capital's restaurants, bars and food shops...

Oliver Peyton tells Hot Dinners about the things that drive him mad and why he in turn is driven to change the perception of British food abroad

Its position as London's premier newspaper now assured, with the closures of both The London Paper and London Lite, the London Evening Standard this week published its list of the city's 1000 most...

Since early summer, rumours have been circulating that top Manhattan chef Daniel Boulud would be joining Heston Blumenthal in opening a restaurant at London’s Mandarin Oriental hotel. Well this...

Curiouser and curiouser - no sooner does the Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell roundly deny this week's Times exclusive that Bruno Loubet is to open a restaurant there, than someone close to Bruno throws...

No doubt bolstered by the continued success of the Restaurant on the Roof at Selfridges, which has already been extended till the end of the month, Pierre Koffman could be considering a permanent...

Biggest news of the week without doubt is the Times story that the Post Office Tower restaurant is to re-open. Apparently BT are already on the hunt for a household name to take on the revolving...

Hot Dinners catches up with Nottingham's Sat Bains to find out where he's eaten well this year and why the customer is always right

Hot Dinners finds out what makes the perfect gastropub from Ed Martin  

When news slipped out on the internet last week that the St John empire was expanding westwards to Soho with the addition of a new restaurant and 16-room hotel, Twitter was on fire. But the only...

One of the biggest restaurant stories to hit the internet this week has to be the news that Fergus Henderson is expanding again. Henderson whose Smithfield resturant St John currently sits at number...