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McDonald's are popping up with a butcher's in Shoreditch where you can make your own burgers

Information: 07 September 2026

Shoreditch has been home to quite a few mad pop-ups, but we're rather liking the idea of this latest one which sees McDonald's opening a butcher's. Taking over a corner site on Shoreditch High...

The Admiral's Mess sees the Mr Fogg's team opening a bar inside Admiralty Arch

Information: 07 September 2026

We already knew that both Clare Smyth and Daniel Boulud were opening at the big new Waldorf Astoria at Admiralty Arch, but now we also know who will be joining them. It's the latest bar opening from...

New restaurants and bars opening in London this week

Information: 07 September 2026

This week, the September opening rush continues with the latest from the Dorian team, an LPM spin-off, a City pub from the Goodman/Wild team and more...

Romy Gill takes over The Pem in St James, which is shifting to regional Indian cooking

Information: 07 September 2026

7/9/26 - updated with the opening date Just over a year ago, Sally Abé left The Pem, the restaurant she launched at The Conrad St James, four years before (she's since opened the very successful...

Endo Kazutoshi comes to Chelsea with his ENDO omakase restaurant and Moga listening bar upstairs

Information: 07 September 2026

7/9/26 - updated with the opening date Endo Kazutoshi has had a very busy time of late. Following a fire, he relocated Endo at the Rotunda to Annabel's for five months, and he's also getting ready...

At new restaurant Pardeh in Bethnal Green everything starts with Persian hospitality

Information: 04 September 2026

Where one door closes, another opens. And as chef Gabriel Waterhouse prepares to resurrect his former Water House Project restaurant in another Bethnal Green space, we already know what's taking...

One of Puglia's best dishes, riso, patate e cozze will be on the menu at Pino, opening in Stokey

Information: 04 September 2026

We've seen a lot of restaurants pivoting into something new recently, and a subset of that is the team change. That's when the restaurant changes, but some of the original team stay on to run its...

The Miracle team are bringing an immersive Halloween bar to Covent Garden

Information: 04 September 2026

Every year, a big festive pop-up Miracle at Henrietta, becomes one of the hottest tickets of the season. It sees a bar decked out in what can only be described as an explosion of Christmas...

Homeboy are launching a Guinness afternoon tea where almost everything on the menu features Guinness

Information: 03 September 2026

Given London's ongoing obsession with Guinness, it was only a matter of time before someone thought about combining that with the city's biggest food-based attraction for tourists, afternoon tea...

Trying out Fortnum's Cellar Sessions for the launch of the store's new wine range

Information: 03 September 2026

A new series of tutored wine tastings has just begun at Fortnum & Mason's Piccadilly store. We signed up to one of their Cellar Sessions to see what it was all about.

Din Tai Fung are opening in King's Cross, with an eye on Soho too

Information: 03 September 2026

Updated 3/9/26 with opening date We only recently wrote about Dishoom lining up another opening on the South Bank before its latest in London Bridge had even opened the doors, and now it looks like...

Chef Will Devlin takes to the rooftop to open Nettle at The Conduit

Information: 02 September 2026

2/9/26 - updated with the opening date Just a few weeks ago, chef Will Devlin opened the London outpost of his restaurant Birchwood at The Conduit in Covent Garden. But that was only part of his...

Help judge London's best bread and butter champions at The Bread & Butter-Off 2026

Information: 02 September 2026

It's increasingly becoming one of the ways in which a restaurant can really showcase the kitchen's creativity and now there's a special event devoted to the bread course. This October, eight London...

Manna have found a standalone home for their smash burgers in Marylebone

Information: 02 September 2026

It really is the time to launch a new burger bar, it seems. Last week we had a new Bleecker in Camden. This week Dumbo is coming to Soho. And now it's the turn of Manna. Up until now, Manna have...

Dishoom's next south London restaurant is going to be on the South Bank

Information: 01 September 2026

We're still waiting for the opening date for the new Dishoom close to Borough Market, but now it turns out they already have another opening lined up, and it's not too far away. First reported by...

They make some of London's best tacos, but Sonora Taqueria in Stoke Newington are closing down

Information: 01 September 2026

We've been writing a lot about new restaurants at the moment, but we're also still seeing a lot of closures, and news has just broken about a big one in Stoke Newington. A restaurant that's behind...

Now London is getting a second tiramisu shop, with Giuseppe's Tiramisu opening in Shoreditch

Information: 01 September 2026

You know how it is. You wait ages for a shop devoted to tiramisu, and then two come along at once. Hard on the heels of Marrone in Soho comes Giuseppe's Tiramisu, which is about to open up at...

Test driving MOR, where Tom Sellers is championing Cornish seafood at the seaside

Information: 01 September 2026

Tom Sellers, together with Tom Anglesea, has taken over the main restaurant at Carbis Bay in Cornwall. It's a room blessed with an amazing view, so we went down to see just what the two chefs have...

Keeping track of the restaurants and bars that have closed in London

Information: 01 September 2026

Here at Hot Dinners we mainly focus on the hottest restaurants in town, as well as new openings. But the London restaurant scene is ever-changing and that means some restaurants fall to the wayside. With...

It's poutine and the Premier League for Kensington at new Canadian sports bar LaCage

Information: 31 August 2026

Back in the 1920s, it was built as a branch of Woolworths. Now, a hundred years later, instead of an American retail giant, we've got a Canadian brand taking over the space on Kensington High...

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