News & reviews

In between feasting with the great and the good at the London Restaurant Festival, Hot Dinners spent an all-too-brief hour to do the rounds at Chocolate Unwrapped – the public-facing part of...

Who could resist the idea of having a meal where every course is served by a different London restaurant and the mode of transport between each is the much-beloved Routemaster bus? Clearly, plenty...

Hot Dinners rounded up yesterday’s coverage of London Restaurant Festival events at the Starter for Ten Quiz at Vinopolis which pitted critics against chefs. In the quizmaster’s chair was none other...

Hot Dinners reports back from lunch at Pierre Koffmann's pop-up reincarnation of Tante Claire, high on the rooftop of London's Selfridges store.  

The first London Restaurant Festival opened in style last night with a glitzy party at London’s revamped Quaglino’s restaurant, hosted by Vanity Fair. Chefs and celebs were in attendance – as were...

Hard on the heels of the London Restaurant Festival comes Chocolate Week (hoorah!). So put off that pre-Christmas diet a moment longer, and book yourself in for a divinely decadent chocolate dinner...

Hot Dinners caught up recently with Renaissance Pubs’ Tom Peake at the reopening of the group’s Abbeville gastropub in Clapham to discover a few cunning tricks to think of if you’re considering...

Brushing aside worries about the recession, three Soho restaurants launched last week: Aqua, Polpo and Hix. Polpo, a Venetian Bacaro, has had promising early reviews and seems primed to become a...

Hot Dinners catches up with Marcus Wareing to discuss awards, ambition and that spat with Gordon Ramsay.

Marcus Wareing has capped off a spectacular year by winning the Chef's Chef of the Year Award at this year's 2010 AA Hospitality Awards. The AA award, 'the icing on the cake' as Wareing told Hot...

Celeb haunt and general impossible-to-get-a-reservation-if-you're-not-Simon-Cowell restaurant, The Ivy, has just announced it's going to take on a capsule on the London Eye over the London...

The biggest recent restaurant news is that Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray of the River Cafe, one of the places most often cited by critics as their favourite place to eat in London, are seriously...

Hot Dinners catches five minutes with Richard Corrigan to find out how he's survived the last 12 months, opening two key new restaurants in the middle of a recession.

The London Restaurant Festival has announced the full line-up of chefs cooking on capsules on the London Eye over the course of the London Restaurant festival. They are as follows: 8 October:...

Fay Maschler became the restaurant critic for the London Evening Standard in 1972 when she won a three month contract in a writing competition. She has since reviewed thousands of restaurants and is...

Several months ago, the initial reports of a norovirus being the root cause of mass illness at the Fat Duck some months ago were just a taste of the full thing, with a full report to follow.  And, as...

Hot Dinners talks to the Eastside Inn's Bjorn van der Horst.

Although Mayor Boris had to send his apologies, the press launch for the London Restaurant Festival had an impressive turn-out this morning with no less than 25 of the city’s best chefs turning up...

It's been a week of notable awards with the Harden's 2010 restaurant awards and Olive Magazine's Alternative Restaurant Awards both being announced. Now you can get in on the action. The nomination...

We're tired of the same old, same old restaurant awards - so three cheers for foodie title Olive magazine which has come up with an Alternative Restaurant Awards 2009 with categories that go beyond...