Television

• First Dates restaurant Paternoster Chophouse has moved to Old Bailey

  

  It's one of the best-known restaurants in the UK, although pretty much everyone knows it as the First Dates restaurant. But over Lockdown Paternoster Chophouse in the City has moved from the space it occupied beside St Paul's for the past seven years into new digs.

  It reopens next week, if tier restrictions allow, at 35 Old Bailey where the Union Bar used to be. The new space will also have a bar area

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• Jack Monroe and Matt Tebbutt join forces for Daily Kitchen show on the BBC

  

  Twitter burst into spontaneous virtual applause today with the news that the BBC has commissioned Jack Monroe for its newest cookery programme. Following weeks in which Jack's legions of fans urged The Beeb to bring the author, famous for her budget-conscious recipes, to the screen it seems the corporation has finally taken note.

  After a bit of a hiccup yesterday, when Jack herself broke the story a day earlier than the press embargo, the

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• Great British Menu 2020: which chefs from London restaurants are taking part?

  

  Are you ready for nine delicious weeks in front of the TV with BBC2’s Great British Menu? To whet your appetite, here’s a round-up of the London chefs involved in this year’s children-literature-themed competition, the British regions they’re representing, and the restaurants where you can try their food.

• Ready Steady Cook is coming back, with Rylan as host and London chefs among the line-up

  

  Almost a decade after its last episode aired, TV cookery show Ready Steady Cook is coming back.

  The BBC this week announced it'll be broadcasting a new series on BBC One Daytime in 2020, hosted by Celebrity MasterChef finalist Rylan Clark-Neal.

  They've also published a list of chefs taking part in the new series, two of which have London restaurants.

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• James Corden and Chris Hemsworth are battling waiters for The Late Show at The Northall

  

  You may have been aware of the fact that James Corden is currently in London filming for The Late Show. But if you were lucky enough to have been staying or eating at the Northall restaurant at the Corinthia this week, you might also have got to appear on the show.

  Corden brought his friend Chris Hemsworth to the restaurant just off Trafalgar Square for a waiter battle. He and Chris would see who could be the best

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• The Great British Menu 2019 - which London restaurants have chefs taking part?

  If you're inspired by this year's Great British Menu to try some of the chef contestants' food, here's our guide to the London restaurants with chefs taking part this year and what to order when you get there.

• Asma Khan talks about her episode on Netflix's Chef's Table

  

  25/2/19 - updated with Asma's charity details

  We've known for quite a while that London's very own Asma Khan was going to be the star of the upcoming Netflix TV series but were sworn to secrecy until Netflix deemed it time to go live with the info. And, honestly, we just couldn't be more pleased. Asma's rise to star restaurateur and chef status hasn't been an easy one, as she tells us below, but it's most

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• Million Pound Menu runners up XX/VI become KityCow and get a London residency at Hush

  

  Updated 30/2/19 with the menu

  We've just passed week two of My Million Pound Menu, where London stalwart Baba Gs came top (and you can visit them right now at Pop Brixton or Camden Market). 

  But that's not all that came out of the

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• Pilgrim are the latest winners of My Million Pound menu

  

  The winners of this week's My Million Pound Menu has been revealed - and this time it's the turn of Pilgrim, made up of Dave Bone (head chef) Jamie Duffield (front of house), and Anthony Power (marketing).

  You may well have come across them in their previous pop-ups, where they cooked up a menu of

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• Baba Gs are winners in the BBC's My Million Pound Menu

  

  In the second week of My Million Pound Menu, where Fred Sirieix and others are handing out wads of cash to promising restaurant start-ups, London stalwart Baba G's has come out top. At the end of the programme, both Jamie Barber and Atul Kochhar were bidding for them, but Kochhar came up top with his £300k

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• My Million Pound menu is back - and here's who we know is taking part...

  

  Last year's Million Pound Menu was a big success - so much so that BBC is bringing it back for a new series due next year (with the added "My" in front of the name).

  If you're unfamiliar with the concept, it sees Fred Sirieix mentoring restaurants with a view to getting investment from

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• Fred Sirieix and Allegra McEvedy join up for new CBBC show Restaurant Dream Team

  

  OK - how good does this sound? The lovely Fred Sirieix, fresh from another series of pairing up romance-searchers on First Dates, has just announced his latest TV show.

  He and chef (and the original co-founder of Leon) Allegra McEvedy - are going to be the hosts of Restaurant Dream Team. But this is no primetime show - it's actually going to be on CBBC.

  In a post on Instagram today Fred said: "we are on the hunt for the “Restaurant Dream

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• Netflix signs up Clare Smyth, James Knappett and Jay Rayner for The Final Table chef competition

  

  Update 20/11/18 - the whole series is now available on Netflix right here (assuming you're signed up). Episode 3 is the UK one and yes, the American host's understanding of current British cuisine isn't exactly what we hoped for. Tell us what you thought in the comments below...

    

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• The Great British Menu 2018 - a guide to the London restaurant chefs taking part

  If you're inspired by this year's Great British Menu to try some of the chef contestants' food, here's our guide to the London restaurants with chefs taking part, what to order and how much it costs to dine there.

• Hansom Lambert on winning on the Million Pound Menu and their upcoming restaurant Epoch

  Episode one of the BBC's new business series Million Pound Menu - think Dragons' Den meets First Dates - saw two 20-somethings picking up a whopping £750k-£1m from backer Atul Kochhar for their English restaurant venture. Hot Dinners caught up with Ruth Hansom and Emily Lambert of to find out what happened next.