Belgravia

• Buckingham Palace is opening its gardens for picnics - for real, this time

  

  We always like to think of ourselves here at Hot Dinners as influential, but we never expected to have the ear of the royal family. Although how else do you explain the fact that eight days after we ran with this April Fool storyabout Buckingham Palace opening its garden to the public for alfresco dining, the story appears

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• Picnic in the Queen's back garden with Alfresco At The Palace

  

  Update: 12pm. Well done to those of you who spotted it - this was our April Fool's Day story - joining a long line of times we've tried with varying degrees of success to pull the wool over your eyes. Mind you, it actually is a good idea....

   

  It's been a very tough 12 months for the hospitality business. And for

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• Ottolenghi opens a festive pop up wine shop in Belgravia

  

  Been caught out by the last delivery dates before Christmas? With most of the big wine retailers now no longer able to deliver wine before the holidays, you'll have to be a little more cunning when it comes to getting in supplies.

  So step forward Ottolenghi who today are launching the Ottolenghi Belgravia's Pop-Up Wine Shop. Taking over their deli on Motcomb Street it's the brainchild of Pierre Malouf,

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• Test Driving Eldr at Pantechnicon - Nordic simplicity in a hugely impressive space

  

  The new Pantechnicon in Belgravia brings together several restaurants and cafes, all wrapped up in a look of Japanese and Nordic Chic. We wend to try out their main Nordic restaurant, Eldr. 

• Pantechnicon is a five storey Nordic and Japanese dining and shopping spot opening in Belgravia

  London's first huge new opening since lockdown will be in the heart of Belgravia. Pantechnicon offers five floors of dining and shopping on Motcomb Street, devoted to all things Nordic and Japanese. 

• Mark Jarvis takes charge of the food at Liv in Belgravia

  

  Mark Jarvis, best known for launching Anglo, as well as Stem and Neo Bistro, is getting ready for his next project. He's joined Liv restaurant in Belgravia (which opened last year) as Chef Director and he's bringing along another Anglo alumnus as head chef, Joe Laker (pictured above and who was also sous chef at

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• Tom Aikens at home - we Test Drive Musette

  

  While his Muse restaurant is closed, Tom Aikens has created a delivery service called Musette. We got stuck in.

• Tom Aikens launches Musette delivery service from his Belgravia restaurant

  

  Over in Belgravia, chef and restaurateur Tom Aikens had just started to see amazing reviews come in for his new restaurant Muse, just before lockdown hit. You can read our Test Drive here.

  The restaurant is almost entirely counter dining, making it pretty hard to accommodate the new socially distant rules, so it

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• The best food delivery and takeaway restaurants in Chelsea, Kensington & Belgravia

  Looking west, we take in the very best restaurants and more that are delivering to Chelsea, Kensington and Belgravia. 

• Test Driving Muse - Tom Aikens gets intimate in Belgravia

  Tom Aikens pares things back for his latest restaurant, with the main emphasis on a counter dining experience. We head along for a look. 

• Marcus Wareing puts an epic pithivier on his Sunday roast menu

  

  There are definitely some pictures that don't need more than a handful of words to go with them and this is one of them. All you need to know is that this braised ox cheek pithivier is going to be on the menu at Marcus from this Sunday.

  Created by the restaurant's sous chef Craig Johnston, 2017 winner of Masterchef Professionals, the dish for two comes with pomme puree and Madiera truffle sauce.

   

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• Morena at Eccleston Yards looks to Colombia and South America for its coffee and inspiration

  Two Columbian sisters are hoping to serve up a top cup of coffee to Belgravia residents

• Muse sees Tom Aikens return to fine dining in Belgravia - update

  Chef Tom Aikens has been out of the fine dining game for a while, but his new Belgravia restaurant seems him return to that with a tasting menu inspired by his life so far.

• Chucs is opening its latest Italian restaurant and cafe in Belgravia

  The Chucs Restaurant & Cafe collection, specialising in modern European cuisine, will open a fifth site in Belgravia (its largest), which will also be its flagship store.

• Dominique Ansel's 2019 Pie Night brings in London's top chefs

  

  If you manage to secure tickets to this year's Pie Night at Dominique Ansel Bakery, then you'll feel pretty damned smug. This year, Ansel is changing things up for his all-you-can-eat pie fest, bringing in some of London's top chefs to help out.

  In the mix are The Ledbury's Brett Graham, Sabor's Nieves Barragán, Ottolenghi's Helen Goh, The Greenhouse's Alex Dilling, and royal wedding baker Violet Cakes's Claire Ptak. In

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