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It seems wrong describing someone as Butcher To The Stars, but that's a good description of Dario Cecchini. Just google him and you'll find out that Elton John once paid him $2500 for a single steak...

Hibiscus chef Claude Bosi's clearly a popular fellow, teaming up with not one but two Michelin-starred chefs for a couple of unmissable dinners - a sort of cheffy BOGOF if you like - over the next...

If you're starting to get a little irritated (or plain jealous) reading all the critics' glowing reviews for Dinner by Heston when you despair of ever getting hold of a table there, we think may...

Here's a date to put in the diary if you're partial to particularly good wines. On the 26th March, following the success of last year's event, Laithwaites wine company are holding their second...

March is just around the corner, which means all celtic-blooded people in London ought to be in training for the annual festival of the Irish, St Patrick's Day. Now while Hot Dinners has nothing but...

The path to the opening of Russell Norman's new venture Spuntino has been anything but smooth. Originally intended to open in the summer of last year, the project stalled to due to lease issues and...

Hot Dinners popped on over to Somerset House last night for a tasting of Tom Aikens new cheesy recipes for Long Clawson Dairy. The Michelin-starred chef has just published Cooking Creatively With...

Update - read our latest Gilbert Scott preview with details of the final menu. St Pancras has to be our favourite building in London and, like English Heritage, we'd want to come down like a ton of...

Update - José is now open at 104 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UB.  It's not taking reservations, so just turn up and wait for a table. José Pizarro, the man who brought us the brilliant Tapas...

The Observer memorably described their pizzas as 'the best in Britain' and certainly if the drooling reviews of our fellow foodies on Twitter are anything to go by, Franco Manca's pizzas are,...

Here in London we have nose-to-tail eating courtesy of St John's, but we're a tad behind our friends across the Pond who've taken the concept of using the whole animal that one step further. Marlow...

If you were inspired by Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan's TV restaurant tour The Trip, you might want to schedule a trip of your own next month to one of the restaurants featured on the show, L'Enclume. As part...

They were last seen in a kitchen together for the 10-10-10 lunch during London Restaurant Festival, now Raymond Blanc is returning to the kitchens at Bistrot Bruno Loubet for a special charity lunch...

Hurrah and huzzah! Bruno Loubet, whose Bistrot Bruno Loubet won Best of the Bunch in Hot Dinner's 2010 Awards, is apparently already looking to open a second restaurant. It's barely a year since...

She’s worked with Gordon Ramsay and endured the challenges of Iron Chef, now Judy Joo is taking on the kitchens at the new Playboy Club in London. The club’s member-only restaurant, called The...

Hot Dinners caught up with Fred Sirieix, General Manager of Galvin at Windows to talk about his passion for good service and the all-important Magic Touch.

We've been a fan of Hotel du Vin since the earliest days of the boutique hotel chain, when Robin Hutson (now at Lime Wood) and Gerard Basset (2010's World's Best Sommelier) opened their first place...

The competition amongst London hotels to have the hottest chefs working in their restaurants ramped up this month when Heston Blumenthal opened at the Mandarin Oriental. But other establishments...

Take an extra long lunch break tomorrow (Friday 4th February) and head down to Brick Lane where Gordon Ramsay will be volunteering his services at a pop-up curry stall in aid of Red Nose Day 2011. Ramsay,...

Hot Dinners can still remember how excited we were the first time we got to put the enomatic machine at Selfridges Wonder Bar through its paces (and are in mourning for the disappearance of Bar...