Best restaurants in London

• The Hot Dinners 2021 awards - the complete review of the year

   

  It's that time of year again! We're taking a look back at a year of dining - where we finally emerged from lockdown for an extended (and hopefully permanent) period. London's restaurant scene slowly built itself back up and there were some wonderful new restaurants. Here's our round-up of 2021.

• The most-read stories on Hot Dinners in 2020

  

  It's been a very different year, all things told, with the forced closure and the big switch to delivery and collection being one of the biggest sea-changes to hit the London food scene since we can remember. Here's what you were mainly reading about on Hot Dinners in 2020. 

• Hot Dinners readers share their best restaurant moments of 2020

  

  In an extremely limited year for actually dining out, Hot Dinners readers share their best restaurant experiences of 2020.

• 2020 Readers' Vote results - your favourite new restaurants

  

  It's been a challenging year, but some fantastic restaurant have launched in London in 2020. We asked you to name your favourites - find out who came top. 

• The best of 2020's eating out (and in) - The Hot Dinners Awards

  

  Our annual round up of virtual gongs for the best food and drink we've enjoyed over the past twelve months.

• The best new London restaurants that opened in 2020

  

  As we, thankfully, near the end of 2020 it's time to take a look back at some of the best openings of the year. When you look back there were some quite excellent new additions to the UK dining scene... 

• New London restaurants to look out for in 2020

  London's ever-changing restaurant landscape is moving into a new decade. Here are the top new restaurant openings to look forward to in 2020. 

• The best of eating out in 2019 - The Hot Dinners Awards

  

  With so much happening on the London restaurant scene this year, it's been harder than ever to whittle down our annual shortlist. But here - for your delectation - is the full list of Hot Dinners Awards for 2019 covering everything from the hottest scene to the tastiest dish, from the counter to be seen dining at to our most coveted accolade, Best Restaurant. 

• The best new London restaurants in 2019

  

  We're three-quarters of the way through 2019 - so it's time for another update of the best new restaurants that have opened in 2019 so far. If you're looking to try something new - this is the best of the new bunch.  

   

    

• Vote for your favourite new London restaurant of 2019

  

  VOTING IS NOW COMPLETE. Look out for the results in the Tuesday 17 December newsletter. 

• The key new London restaurants to watch out for in 2019

  Bucking the trend for doom and gloom (and steadfastly ignoring the B-word) we look at some of the cracking new openings planned for 2019 on the London restaurant scene.

• Hot Dinners readers pick their best new restaurants of 2018

   

• The best of 2018 - the Hot Dinners Awards

  We reveal Londons restaurants, bars, chefs and dishes that restored our cheer this year.

• The best new London restaurants of 2018 Sometimes there are just TOO many new restaurants opening. And while we cover them all - sometimes you'll want to know which ones to really zero in on. So here are - in our minds - the best new London restaurants to open in 2018... so far.
  
  
• The best new London restaurants of 2017 It's time for our first look back at the year so far, pulling out all the really great restaurants that have opened in London so far this year.