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The burger craze seems to be never ending - if anything, it seems to have kicked up a notch in the last few months with more restaurants getting in on the action. The latest to descend on Covent...

London's high-rise dining scene continues to grow with a new player entering the field as the next London skyscraper, 20 Fenchurch Street (apparently nick-named the "walkie talkie" because of its...

Almost five years on from his opening the first Jamie's Italian in Oxford, Jamie Oliver is about to launch a new sibling range of trattoria restaurants, starting with Richmond. Jamie's Italian...

Honest Burgers, one of London’s most popular burger restaurants last week announced a third site in Camden. Hot Dinners caught up with Tom Barton, co-founder of Honest Burgers to find out about...

Updated with our first impressions and a new gallery. It's all go at Hawksmoor Spitalfields bar where they've been playing around with the menu and changing the layout so the bar has its own...

Like a foreign exchange trip, only without the weepy phone calls home, the Frith Street Exchange will see the chefs of Barrafina and Koya swapping kitchens over the next two weeks. On Wednesday 12th...

Updated 5/6/13 with menu details and opening hours The people behind popular Soho spot Duck Soup are planning to open their second restaurant this Summer. Rawduck, an offshoot of Ducksoup, will open...

Every year, one of Action Against Hunger's most anticipated events is Too Many Critics, where some of the UK's top restaurant critics and food writers take on cooking duties for a night. This time,...

Soft launch details below Lockhart bills itself as an upscale Southwest American kitchen featuring flavours from States like Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico while using British seasonal ingredients. It's the...

News of yet another new Islington opening reaches us today as we hear that the second De Beauvoir Deli will be opening there soon.The original has proven a hit on Southgate Road and their second...

Soft launch details below. The Royal Quarter cafe is the latest restaurant to come to Victoria, an area of London that's been going through a fair bit of improvement recently. This addition is from...

(31/5 - updated with soft launch details - see below) Time Out loved it, AA Gill really didn't but La Bodega Negra continues to pack them in on Soho's Old Compton Street, regularly popping up in the...

A new Italian restaurant is opening on the corner of Exmouth market, right opposite Canteen (the building where Dollar used to be). Paesan promises to be a rustic Italian restaurant focusing on...

As regular readers will know, Islington is Hot Dinners' home turf, and we've really seen a big shift in the area over the last couple of years, with a number of very interesting restaurants opening...

US restaurateurs Altamarea Group, who are behind NYC's Ai Fiori, are about to make their first stab at the UK market with upcoming Haymarket restaurant Chop Shop, a "butcher-shop inspired"...

Another restaurant is joining the throng at Dean Street this week, as Galeto throws open its doors Galeto is aiming to be a Brazilian "streatery" - which means they're mixing Brazilian street food...

He's only just finished his Disco Bistro residency at the Rising Sun, but Carl Clarke's already gearing up to launch his next venture. He'll be bringing his former pop-up Rock Lobsta to Mayfair club...

The word "gymkhana" might bring back memories of children's horse events to many, but this upcoming London restaurant has a particularly good pedigree behind it. It's from Karam Sethi, the chef...

Last week when we chatted to Russell Norman about his next project - the Ape & Bird pub on Shaftesbury Avenue - we also took the opportunity to quiz him about his role in an upcoming BBC TV show The...

In the vein of recent ‘specialisation’ restaurants such as Burger & Lobster, Tramshed and Potato Merchant, a new restaurant celebrating the humble chicken and its eggs will open on July 8th in...