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Looking for the best ways to enjoy St Patrick's Day in London? If you fancy great Guinness with some really good Irish food to go with it, or if you're after a big party, we've got you covered.

Hot Dinners presents its 12th annual Murphia List - a celebration of the creative contribution made by Irish people to London's food and drink scene.

Now that we're in our 12th year of publishing our annual Murphia List, celebrating the Irish talent working in London's hospitality scene, we've gotten pretty good at throwing a proper party for it. This year was our eighth party, our third time having it at gorgeous West End hotel The Marylebone and our first time with a brand new sponsor, Kerrygold.

For us the important thing is getting a bunch of incredibly creative and talented Irish people in one room. This year's party guests included The Devonshire's publican Oisin Rogers, restaurateurs and podcasters the Wogan brothers,

108 Brasserie & Bar is celebrating its Irish roots by serving up a free cocktail and Guinness bread to Hot Dinners readers this March.

Offer: Complimentary Irish Heritage Month cocktail and Guinness bread & salted butter

Where: 108 Marylebone Lane, London W1U 2QE

When: 5-31 March 2026, Monday to Saturday, lunch and dinner

It's all go in Broadgate at the moment. Fresh off the launch off the new Vagabond wine bar, and the imminent arrival of US import Velvet Taco comes news of another interesting new opening in the pipeline.

The Horsemen is being billed as an "An Irish-American steakhouse and freehouse" which, according to trade title Propel, is being opened by the same group that brought Sunday in Brooklyn to London. The pub

Spice bags are bigger than ever in London and the number of places to get them is expanding. Scaldy, already in residency in the City,  are coming to Peckham. 

If you haven't yet come across a spice bag, here's what you need to know. Kicking off in the mid-2000s, spice bags have now become A Very Big Thing in Ireland - essentially they're a bag of chips with fried chicken and vegetables,

9/4/25 - updated with new pics and an opening date

You may have spotted videos on your social (or maybe it's just our algorithm) of a rise in London pubs offering proper sing songs, whether that's trad Irish tunes or music with a broader appeal. Now it's Southwark's turn as the team behind Mc & Sons in Borough and Vauxhall are opening their very first singing pub in Southwark.

Molly Mc's is

Perfectly timed to coincide with St Patrick's Day, London is about to experience the true culinary delights of the spice bag, courtesy of Paddy Wok. For those of you who've not been lucky enough to try one before, the Irish spice bag is a mixture of chips, crispy chicken, peppers and onion coated in a mixture of Chinese spice and chilli.

The man behind this is Cathal Farrelly who moved to London for university. "One of

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Great British Bake Off winner Matty Edgell has come up with a belter of a recipe for a tiramisu made with Five Farms, the world’s first farm-to-table Irish cream liqueur. It's the most luxurious dessert that's perfect for any St Patrick's Day celebration. Five Farms also happen to be a supporter of our Murphia List and you can see who made this year's list ...

Their first pub opened in Shoreditch only earlier this year, but a second Nancy Spains is already on the way (and we now wouldn't be surprised if more were planned). 

It's taken over the space that was once City pub, The Wine Lodge (which appears to have been closed for over five years). As before, it's run by Kerry-born brothers Peter and Nicholas O’Halloran and they'll be

Five years after throwing open the doors of her Irish restaurant just off the King's Road, chef and writer Anna Haugh is now in the process of unveiling her latest enterprise in the area. The Wee Sister is Haugh's new wine bar and it really is a close sibling, being right next door to the restaurant.

The bar has taken over another wine space, Last Drop Wines. As Anna explained to us, "It's an Irish wine bar

If you're a homesick Irish expat, London's food offerings have of late been very much in your favour. If you've been hankering for a chicken fillet roll, for example, you can now head to Homeboy in Islington or the hugely popular Emerald Eats stall in Broadway Market. But now we bring you news of a very specific Irish food snack specialist that's making waves across the city.

Scaldy pitch themselves as

There's been some debate recently on what makes a neighbourhood restaurant. However, we figure that if you've spent the past decade living somewhere, that's surely got to count for something. And locals Lynsey Coughlan and Lindsay Lewis have lived in Hackney for ten years before deciding to open their first restaurant.

Inis, which will be part of Fish Island's The Trampery campus, is going to serve up a mix of British

If you've been wondering what that lengthy queue snaking down Broadway Market at the weekends is for, let us enlighten you. Emerald Eats is an Irish food stall that's gone fully viral over the past few weeks. Their secret has been tapping into the deepest desires of Irish expats, serving up a short menu of takeaway food that isn't easy to come by in London.

The stall's the brainchild of three Irish folk in

If there's one date you want to open in time for if you're a new Irish pub, it's St Patrick's Day. So Shoreditch pub Nancy Spain's is coming in just under the wire with the intention of flinging open its doors a few days before the big day.

The folks behind it are Kerry-born brothers Peter and Nicholas O’Halloran and they're hoping their pub will bring something new to Shoreditch. Interestingly,