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Floating Pommery bar planned for St Katharine Docks

Information: 01 April 2011

Another reason to wish the days away till Summer arrives in London popped up today with the news of a floating champagne and seafood bar planned for St Katharine Docks by Tower Bridge. Pontoon will, as...

Mennula: a new type of Charlotte Street Italian

Information: 30 March 2011

It's a lazy shorthand we know, but there's something to be said for eating in a restaurant where a majority of the customers hail from the same part of the world that the cuisine originates from. It...

Cay Tre and Viet Grill owner launches Banh Mi joint on Old Street

Information: 29 March 2011

The man behind the brilliant Vietnamese joints Cay Tre and Viet Grill in Shoreditch, Hugh Trung Bui, has turned his attention to Vietnam's legendary Banh Mi sandwich and has just opened his first...

Glitzy new hotel for Guildford will sign up celebrity chef

Information: 28 March 2011

It may not be the first (or even the second, third or fourth) place you'd think of going for a glamorous dinner, but a new hotel opening up in Guildford has designs on drawing London diners out of...

Hi-tech Hi-dining at Inamo St James

Information: 25 March 2011

Inamo, the Oriental fusion dining brand which blends sushi and sashimi with iPod-style touch ordering, has been thumbing its nose at traditional London high dining for over a year with its Soho...

Q&A with Noel Hunwick from high-tech Inamo

Information: 25 March 2011

Hot Dinners caught up with Noel Hunwick, one of the co-founders of interactive restaurant Inamo to talk about clicks, dishes and more as he celebrated the addition of Regent’s Street Inamo St James...

New backer for Tom Aikens means restaurant revamp

Information: 24 March 2011

In the London restaurant world, you're usually only as good as your backers and Tom Aikens appears to have landed himself shiny new financial angels in the form of Turkey company, The Istanbul Doors...

Young Turks dinner at The Loft Project is Spring's hot ticket

Information: 22 March 2011

Our remit at Hot Dinners has always been to bring readers into the bubble - to let you know what's happening on the London restaurant scene. The Young Turks absolutely tick that box, being a collective of...

Alain Roux and Alex James open new Cheese Makers Market

Information: 22 March 2011

Now that Spring's finally here, jaded Londoners might be looking to spend an hour or two outside the city in the countryside. And while we've nothing against a nice walk in the countryside, unless...

Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social experiment

Information: 21 March 2011

We sit down with Jason Atherton to find out what we can expect from his new restaurant, Pollen Street Social, and why it’s the stuff of his dreams.

Outstanding In The Field dinner movement comes to the UK

Information: 20 March 2011

Outstanding In the Field is quite literally a grassroots organisation which over the past 11 years has taken to farms all over America, setting out dining tables and chairs on everwhere from roaming...

Kampai! Hot Dinners sips from the sake cup at Saki

Information: 18 March 2011

It’s been referred to as ‘the Japanese tequila’, but has never really found its feet in the capital. With very few dedicated tastings, bars or shops, how much do we really know about sake? Saki, a...

Stevie Parle cooking Sunday lunch at Blacks in Soho

Information: 16 March 2011

If you haven't made it across London to try Telegraph food writer and chef Stevie Parle's Dock Kitchen, put a note in your diary, as he's heading into town to cook Sunday lunch this weekend at...

Using Your Loaf - talking to the woman behind the BBC's Great British Food Revival

Information: 16 March 2011

Bridget Boseley, producer of BBC's ‘The Great British Food Revival’ talks to us about championing local produce.

New ham and sherry bar Capote y Toros to open in Kensington

Information: 15 March 2011

As the weedy spring sunshine tries to dispel London's usual grey gloom, Hot Dinners' day was brightened still further by the news that tapas group Cambio de Tercio are going to be opening a ham and...

Richard Caring opening Ivy Cafe on Curzon Street

Information: 14 March 2011

Hard on the heels of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin announcing their plans to launch a sibling to The Wolseley, we hear courtesy of Restaurant Gossip on Twitter that Richard Caring of Caprice Holdings...

David Chang takes on Jay Rayner over his Ma Peche review

Information: 14 March 2011

A war of words has broken out this morning between Londoner Jay Rayner and New York chef David Chang over Rayner's review of Chang's newest restaurant Ma Peche in the Guardian this weekend. It seems that...

Breakfast at Jamie's - Fifteen London's Full Monty.

Information: 12 March 2011

Fifteen, Jamie Oliver's restaurant which sets out to give a leg up to youngsters, is one of those places that Hot Dinners has always intended to go to, but were put off by the alleged difficulty of...

Iron Chef Franck Pontais opens pop up at Harvey Nichols

Information: 11 March 2011

If you're in the vicinity of Harvey Nichols over the next four weeks, you might want to stop by the Fifth Floor restaurant where Iron Chef 2010 winner Franck Pontais has just launched a pop-up...

Marcus Wareing dishes more details about Gilbert Scott menu

Information: 11 March 2011

A couple of interesting facts pop up in Marcus Wareing's interview this week in the Wall Street Journal. To begin with, he lets more details slip about the kind of food we'll see on the menu at The...

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