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Updated 17/12/25 with full details of what's planned.   Restaurateur Jeremy King is getting ready for his biggest opening yet. He's had success with The Park near Hyde Park, and relaunched Le Caprice as...

Song Que Cafe in Hoxton has long been both one of the area's best Vietnamese restaurants and also one of the best in London. It's been doing great business since opening all the way back in 2002,...

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...

Covent Garden is getting a New York-inspired cocktail bar that sounds like it could be very useful for brightening up January. Called Cato, the bar is inspired by Cato Alexander, a New York...

Four years after opening their popular sandwich shop in Notting Hill the not-so-secret Secret Sandwich Shop now has a new secret to reveal: it's got a second store. They've just opened a place...

They're big in the Netherlands and Belgium, where they hoover up the tourist crowds looking for particularly extra punnets of chips, and now Frites Atelier have come to London, landing in Soho...

Spare a thought for London's commuters, wearily trekking into and out of London every day. Now, at least the ones coming via Waterloo will have some decent coffee waiting for them when they get...

Updated 12/12/25 with booking info For a while now clothing brand Kith and its treat store have been one of the best places to get soft serve in London. But the imminent opening of their flagship...

Lunch options for folks in the City just got a boost in the run up to Christmas with the arrival of cheese toastie folk MELT at the Boxhall City food hall. Melt have been trading at Old Spitalfields for the...

11/12/25 - updated with details about the menu and projected opening For a small pub residency, Tiella at The Compton Arms got a lot of column inches. There was something about chef Dara Klein's...

Updated 10/12/25 with opening date We get a lot of information about new openings here at Hot Dinners, so it takes a lot to impress us. So when we say that an announcement about a new central London...

Three years after closing The Laughing Heart in Hackney, Charlie Mellor is back with his latest venture.  Osteria Vibrato is the latest to join the recent trend of new Italian restaurants opening in...

9/12/25 - updated with more details and an opening date London bakery nerd alert - one of the world's best bakers is coming to town. Richard Hart hails from London but made his name far from home,...

  When Jamie's Italian went under back in 2019, it was one of the most public closures possible, with coverage all over the press. But, the brand has managed to keep going overseas and, much to pretty...

8/12/25 - updated with the opening date His main home may be Elystan Street, but Phil Howard's other business looks like it's doing pretty well. Fresh pasta bar Notto is already on Piccadilly and in...