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Richard Vines at Bloomberg has managed to get some more information about Heston Blumenthal's new venture at the Mandarin Oriental from the man himself. In a new interview, Heston tells him that the...

Heston’s London-bound in as Foliage closes As first reported by Hot Dinners back in April, Heston Blumenthal officially confirmed this week that he'll be opening a restaurant at the Mandarin...

Hot Dinners exclusive To Taste of London (reviewed here) this week, where Hot Dinners happened upon a pair of top chefs with a lot of good things to say about London diners. First up was Gary Rhodes who...

We’re only in the business of writing about restaurants, rather than running them, but having spent a largely fruitless hour or two searching London’s restaurants for special Father’s Day lunch...

A really interesting article in the FT this weekend looked into the trickle-down effect restaurant chefs can have on what we culinary footsoldiers find to buy in our butchers, farmers markets and...

If you were one of the foolish/unlucky wage slaves to have to battle the forces of evil to get to your office this morning rather than working (relaxing) at home, you'll be glad to hear that there...

If you really want to ensure a packed restaurant night after night, the solution is clear, get your owner onto a reality TV show, pronto. Hot Dinners spoke today to Alex, restaurant manager at The...

Hot Dinners finds out from Fino owner Sam Hart why now is a brilliant time to open a new restaurant in London

Here at Hot Dinners, we just love the Great British Menu. When it comes to guilty pleasure foodie TV, only Come Dine With Me could beat the joys of watching Prue Leith, Matthew Fort and Oliver...

Given the column inches that they were able to fill with Heston's recent troubles, it was expected that the media would be on the look out for another restaurant scare.  Quaglino's has certainly...

Break out the champagne – or at least the cava – this is a good news week as far as London's restaurateurs are concerned. It seems as if bookings are on the up. The newly revamped Evening Standard...

The biggest news for restaurants this week was the confirmation that from October 2009,  restaurants will be banned from using tips or cover charges to bulk up their waiting staff’s salaries to...

‘It is the intangible magic that grows out of a series of intellectual, practical decisions.’ No we’re not describing the perfect plate of steak and chips – this was one of the loftier soundbites on...

British chefs have been in a punchy mood this week, if you believe the media, who've been standing around the likes of Blumenthal, Ramsay and Wareing shouting 'Fight! Fight!'. Clearly it hasn't been...

Clearly the newhounds loved the way the Heston Blumenthal story helped to fill valuable column inches with something other than the credit crunch, as they've been playing close attention to Gordon...

Forget about Michelin-starred chefs and their high-end fripperies, this week's foodie heroine is indisputably Gill Holcome, whom the Mail this week dubs the No Money Nigella. We love the 'it may be...

Out in the countryside.....Heston Blumenthal has been given the go-ahead to re-open the Fat Duck. According to Bloomberg, the restaurant which has been shut since Wednesday 25th February will open...

There’s only been one real foodie story this week – the ongoing mystery at the Fat Duck. More than 400 people have now reported becoming ill after eating at Heston Blumenthal’s thrice-starred...

As everyone falls over themselves to recommend ways to beat the recession, such as by buying wine at Aldi and Lidl and taking it to your local restaurant, let's take a look at what else his the...

Possibly the biggest story, this week, was Jamie Oliver's latest crusade, Jamie Saves Our Bacon, raising awareness of the dire state of the British pork industry and certain supermarkets'...