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Twilight star Kristen Stewart made her debut appearance on America’s Jay Leno show this week and much of the chat was about her recent trip to London. Leno, a known foodie, wondered what Kristen...

Great interview with El Gordo in today's Observer Food Monthly in which Gordon and interviewer Simon Garfield go over a number of knotty issues that have beset Ramsay over the last year or so...

To Islington this weekend, just a hop skip and a jump away from Hot Dinners HQ to La Dolce Vita Festival of Italian food and wine at the Business Design Centre. Lucky old us had a guided tour around...

Gordon Ramsay was in Qatar this week to open a branch of maze at the Pearl-Qatar, the first maze to be opened outside a hotel. The Gulf Times caught up with him to find Ramsay uncharacteristically...

Hot Dinners was recently invited to try out Dinner with Jordi – one of a new series of private dinners with wine-pairing at Vivat Bacchus in Farringdon. The Jordi in question is the Barcelona-born...

The dates for the second London Restaurant Festival have just been announced. This year’s festival will run from 4-18 October 2010. ‘Our passionate commitment to encourage as many restaurants as...

This week Twitter has been groaning with critics and bloggers being very gloomy indeed about the state of London’s burger joints. But lo – there is light on the horizon with news in this week’s Time...

On the eve of the opening of his new restaurant at Selfridges, Hot Dinners talks to golden boy Mark Hix, currently the darling of the London restaurant scene

The finalists for this year’s Restaurant and Bar Design Awards have just been announced and London has no less than 27 venues in the shortlist. They are as follows: Independent Restaurant – Tom’s...

Rose Gray, the co-founder of River Cafe died today (Sunday 28 February). Rose, who had twice undergone treatment for breast cancer, founded the River Cafe with Ruth Rogers (pictured here to the left...

The Cipriani London restaurant has lost its battle to keep its name in a court case ruled on today in the Court of Appeal. The restaurant's owner, Giuseppe Cipriani, grandson of the man who founded...

Alain Ducasse may reckon that ‘London is the most important city in the world for restaurants’, but it seems the people marketing us to tourists don’t agree. The English tourist board today...

News round-up Gordon Ramsay is better known for reducing restaurateurs who don’t come up to scratch in Kitchen Nightmares to floods of tears, but according to fellow chef Albert Roux, it’s as easy...

It was already the hardest restaurant in the world to get a table at, now Ferran Adria has revealed a new exquisite variation to the torture. In a press release put out by El Bulli today, Adria has...

To Marylebone this evening for the launch of the Colony Bar and Grill - the latest venture from Atul Kochhar. It's been a hectic few weeks for Atul - less than a month ago he presided over the...

In the week it lost out in the Twitter poll by Quadrille Food for Best Food Publication to newbie Fire & Knives, the publishers of Waitrose Food Illustrated have just announced a new direction for...

After attending the recent re-launch of Atul Kochhar's Benares, Hot Dinners were recently invited back to try out the restaurant itself. Situated in the heart of Mayfair on Berkeley Square, the...

After much shifting and rescheduling, a new date for the reopening of Petrus has been announced. According to a press release just out, it will open its doors for business on for 29th March 2010...

If there’s one website you should bookmark this week (other than our own, dear readers) it’s www.putneypopup.co.uk which will have details on how to book your seat at the mother of all pop-up...

Hot Dinners catches up with chef Bruno Loubet just before the opening of his eponymous restaurant Bistrot Bruno Loubet at the Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell