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Purl owners launch Worship Street Whistling Shop bar in Shoreditch

Information: 26 April 2011

It may not have a name that trips easily off the tongue, but the soon-to-be-launched Worship Street Whistling Shop is pretty much guaranteed to be a new Shoreditch hot spot. The bar's owners are...

News round-up: Clove and Eno Clubs return, Barbecoa refurb and more

Information: 22 April 2011

With a new expansion, da Polpo, annouced this week, that's not all from the Russell Norman empire. Next week, Polpo's Eno Club run by Wine Chap returns with more dates running up until October. ...

Rock Lobsta pop-up lobster bar to open in Shoreditch in June

Information: 20 April 2011

Update - Rock Lobsta runs from 23 - 26 June. For more details, visit their site. Londoners who've been to New York, sampled that city's very fine lobster rolls and then come home hankering after it and...

Russell Norman opening fourth restaurant Da Polpo in Covent Garden in June

Information: 20 April 2011

Update - Da Polpo is now open at 6 Maiden Lane WC2E 7NW. Lunch reservations are taken on 020 7836 8448 but, as usual, there's a no reservation policy for dinner. It's a busy old year for Polpo owner...

Noma's René Redzepi to run masterclass at Taste of London

Information: 19 April 2011

Taste of London has pulled off quite a coup in getting René Redzepi from The World's Best RestaurantTM Noma to appear at this year's festival at Regent's Park. Redzepi will be holding a special Q&A...

Hot Dinners test drives the Riding House Cafe

Information: 18 April 2011

Hot Dinners tries out the New York inspired restaurant in Fitzrovia.

Noma tops World’s 50 Best Restaurants List for second year

Information: 18 April 2011

World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards has become a key international fixture in chef's calendars (we tell you why here). Just as you shouldn't expect to see chefs in their kitchens when Le Bocuse d'Or...

Tickets go on sale for Harvey Nichols chefs' lunch at Surrey's Gatton Park

Information: 14 April 2011

We've already written about the American dining movement Outstanding in the Field which is due to make a pitstop in the UK this Autumn, now we hear that chefs from Harvey Nichols restaurants across...

Marcus Wareing's The Gilbert Scott - a sneak preview

Information: 13 April 2011

Hot Dinners has a special preview of what to expect from Marcus Wareing's The Gilbert Scott in the St Pancras Hotel.

Battle of the tattoos between Hawksmoor and Spuntino

Information: 12 April 2011

If you’ve been down to restaurant of the moment Spuntino, you can’t have failed to notice the body art of waitress Rachel Day – well it seems her work has attracted the attention of the staff at...

Cliveden Hotel launches world's most expensive afternoon tea

Information: 11 April 2011

It's the kind of story that would have Britain's anarchists boarding the next train to Berkshire - standing in tall defiance of the 'we're all in this together' ethos, is the latest wheeze from...

Michel Roux Jnr and Bruno Loubet turn out for Bistro du Vin's opening night

Information: 08 April 2011

It's not often you find yourself sharing elbow space at a buffet bar with Michel Roux Jnr, but that's the happy position Hot Dinners found ourselves in last night at the opening bash for Bistro du...

Roka chef to open Aurelia on Cork Street on old Mulligans site

Information: 07 April 2011

News hits Hot Dinners today of a very interesting new development in Mayfair - Aurelia on Cork Street is being launched by the family behind Zuma, Roka and La Petite Maison. It'll be on the site of...

Bruno Loubet bar snacks make ZTH Bar an instant Clerkenwell classic

Information: 06 April 2011

As we admitted before, we’re a fickle crowd when it comes to choosing our new favourite bar. Over the past 12 months we’ve swung between Hix Bar, St John’s and 69 Colebrooke Row. But just a few...

Saigon Street cafe opens Ca Phe! on Islington's Upper Street

Information: 06 April 2011

Isn't that always the way - you wait ages for a Banh Mi shop and then two come along at once. Just last week we had the opening of Keu on Old Street, and next week another part of Islington gets a...

Hot Dinners tastes tapas at the Opera Tavern

Information: 05 April 2011

The past year or so has been something of a magic makeover for Covent Garden as it gradually transformed from being a culinary wasteland where only those who thought a tofu burger or Cornish pasty...

World's richest flock to Dinner by Heston

Information: 05 April 2011

Interesting piece in The Times today on how London has become the international go-to place to party with the uber-rich (provided of course you can afford a ticket to one of their charitable balls). And...

Young Turks Dinner at the Loft Project reviewed

Information: 04 April 2011

It's always nice feeling you're at the cutting edge of where the London dining scene is going, and this week's Young Turks dinners held at Nuno Mendes' Loft Project in Hackney was the very example...

Blumethal trifle, Gordon checks out city competition and chip fat power

Information: 03 April 2011

This week, Hot Dinners paid a visit to the new Searcy's Champagne Bar in One New Change. It's a marked departure from the other fizz bars in the group; rather than being out in the open, this bar...

René Redzepi gets funding to open larger Noma

Information: 01 April 2011

You guessed it - this was our April Fool's story. If you've ever tried and failed to get a reservation at the World's Best Restaurant™ Noma, we have glad tidings for you today. It seems that...

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