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Eating out in this town can be an expensive business, and while we're sure you all love your fathers very much, it doesn't hurt if there's a special deal on Father's Day. These three London...

It's Braveheart by stealth! A Scottish restaurant is taking over that most English of establishments, M Manze's famous pie and mash shop on Chapel Market in Islington. But sassenachs can breathe...

If you like burgers and you're rather fond of beer, then you might want to head down to Hawksmoor Seven Dials later this month for a special Brews and Burgers night. Both the Seven Dials and...

Food trucks are huge news in the States, so we couldn't be more pleased to see that Street Kitchen, the trailer set up by Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel for last year's London Restaurant Festival, will...

By the fourth day of our trip, it was rapidly becoming clear that our planned restaurant and bar itinerary was - how shall we put it - ever so slightly ambitious. Turns out we couldn't eat three...

If you've got £60 to spare, you might want to get on the blower to Selfridges and book yourself on a pretty special dinner coming up with Angela Hartnett next month. Hartnett will be cooking for one...

On day 3 of our New York trip we’ve established a pattern, go out, find somewhere lovely to eat, head back to the hotel to recover and then go out and do it all again. Today we spared ourselves a...

Another day in New York - another heatwave.  As temperatures scaled to record levels, we sought the respite (and air-conditioning) of some top NYC places on the second day of our visit. The day got...

Hot Dinners has jetted off to New York for a few days to eat and shop our way through the city that never sleeps. The trip got off to a pretty great start when the lovely people at BA upgraded us to...

Hot Dinners caught up with L'Enclume chef Simon Rogan to find out his plans for the Marylebone restaurant and to see if this means he’s had enough of country life.

It's all very well putting great food on the plate, but if the place you're eating in looks like a dog's dinner, then there's no question that it detracts from the joy of eating out. Good restaurant...

Top foodie things worth trying this weekend Forget firing up the barbecue yourself. Head on down to the South Bank where Pitt Cue Co are doing a storming business out of a custom trailer under...

As anyone with a school-age child will be able to tell you, raising funds for a school is all down to the calibre of people you can persuade to sit on the event committee. So we're pretty impressed...

With Jose Pizarro busy winning accolades for his newly-opened restaurant in Bermondsey, his previous venture Tierra Brindisa has been getting an overhaul in Soho. Previously a fully-fledged Spanish...

Hot Dinners braved the placard-wielding demonstrators to try out The Playboy Club in Mayfair last night. Truth be told, once inside, you'd see more flesh on any episode of The Only Way Is Essex than...

Jamie Oliver’s empire building continues apace with the news today that his Jamie’s Italian chain is to open a massive new restaurant in Islington. The new restaurant will be just a stone’s throw...

Update. You can now email your reservation requests to: info@roganic.co.uk and the reservations phone line opens on June 6. The restaurant opens mid-June. Twitter was all of a flutter just before...

An already impressive line-up of names due to cook at the London Eye for the 2011 London Restaurant Festival has been boosted by the  arrival of two new chefs. We hear that Hélène Darroze and...

MasterChef finalist Tom Whitaker may have lost out on the big trophy, but he's jumped straight back into the kitchen. The advertising exec from Putney has been spending time working at City...

Given the total meltdown London's foodie network went into the last time the chaps behind Hawksmoor opened a new restaurant, we fully expect news that a third Hawsksmoor is on the way will send...