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It may not have a name that trips easily off the tongue, but the soon-to-be-launched Worship Street Whistling Shop is pretty much guaranteed to be a new Shoreditch hot spot. The bar's owners are...

With a new expansion, da Polpo, annouced this week, that's not all from the Russell Norman empire.  Next week, Polpo's Eno Club run by Wine Chap returns with more dates running up until October. ...

Update - Rock Lobsta runs from 23 - 26 June.  For more details, visit their site.  Londoners who've been to New York, sampled that city's very fine lobster rolls and then come home hankering after it and...

Update - Da Polpo is now open at 6 Maiden Lane WC2E 7NW.  Lunch reservations are taken on 020 7836 8448 but, as usual, there's a no reservation policy for dinner. It's a busy old year for Polpo owner...

Taste of London has pulled off quite a coup in getting René Redzepi from The World's Best RestaurantTM Noma to appear at this year's festival at Regent's Park. Redzepi will be holding a special Q&A...

World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards has become a key international fixture in chef's calendars (we tell you why here). Just as you shouldn't expect to see chefs in their kitchens when Le Bocuse d'Or...

We've already written about the American dining movement Outstanding in the Field which is due to make a pitstop in the UK this Autumn, now we hear that chefs from Harvey Nichols restaurants across...

Hot Dinners has a special preview of what to expect from Marcus Wareing's The Gilbert Scott in the St Pancras Hotel.

If you’ve been down to restaurant of the moment Spuntino, you can’t have failed to notice the body art of waitress Rachel Day – well it seems her work has attracted the attention of the staff at...

It's the kind of story that would have Britain's anarchists boarding the next train to Berkshire - standing in tall defiance of the 'we're all in this together' ethos, is the latest wheeze from...

It's not often you find yourself sharing elbow space at a buffet bar with Michel Roux Jnr, but that's the happy position Hot Dinners found ourselves in last night at the opening bash for Bistro du...

News hits Hot Dinners today of a very interesting new development in Mayfair - Aurelia on Cork Street is being launched by the family behind Zuma, Roka and La Petite Maison. It'll be on the site of...

As we admitted before, we’re a fickle crowd when it comes to choosing our new favourite bar. Over the past 12 months we’ve swung between Hix Bar, St John’s and 69 Colebrooke Row. But just a few...

Isn't that always the way - you wait ages for a Banh Mi shop and then two come along at once. Just last week we had the opening of Keu on Old Street, and next week another part of Islington gets a...

Interesting piece in The Times today on how London has become the international go-to place to party with the uber-rich (provided of course you can afford a ticket to one of their charitable balls). And...

It's always nice feeling you're at the cutting edge of where the London dining scene is going, and this week's Young Turks dinners held at Nuno Mendes' Loft Project in Hackney was the very example...

This week, Hot Dinners paid a visit to the new Searcy's Champagne Bar in One New Change.  It's a marked departure from the other fizz bars in the group; rather than being out in the open, this bar...

You guessed it - this was our April Fool's story. If you've ever tried and failed to get a reservation at the World's Best Restaurant™ Noma, we have glad tidings for you today. It seems that...

Another reason to wish the days away till Summer arrives in London popped up today with the news of a floating champagne and seafood bar planned for St Katharine Docks by Tower Bridge. Pontoon will, as...

The man behind the brilliant Vietnamese joints Cay Tre and Viet Grill in Shoreditch, Hugh Trung Bui, has turned his attention to Vietnam's legendary Banh Mi sandwich and has just opened his first...