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As we happened to be wandering around Park Lane last Friday, we took the opportunity to take a quick look around London's revamped Four Seasons Hotel before the hordes descended. The hotel, which...

If you're a subscriber to the Hot Dinners newsletter, you'll know that our last missive eulogised the benefits of following us on Twitter or Facebook. Well just over a week after sending that out,...

So the menu for Dinner by Heston is now up on the restaurant's website giving Hot Dinners a chance to peruse the menu as the restaurant opens its doors to diners this lunchtime. The set lunch, which is a...

If you’re despairing of ever receiving your January paycheque then the clever people at First Restaurant Group have come up with an idea for making your money go further this month. They’re putting...

Spitalfields brasserie Le Bouchon Breton was picked as the UK’s best place for a drink whilst out dining  in trade title Harpers Wine & Spirit’s 2011 Drinking Out Excellence Awards (that must have...

Hot Dinners rarely – if ever -  say no to anything involving champagne, so we were pretty happy to be invited to the launch of Searcy’s new champagne bar at Paddington station. Set in the glassed-off section...

We’re huge, huge fans of Russell Norman’s Polpo and Polpetto (and let’s face it, who isn’t) so we’re properly excited to hear that they’re expanding Polpo. Anything that helps improve the chances of...

The winners of the most recent series of Raymond Blanc’s reality show The Restaurant have just opened a bar on Goodge Street. JJ and James’s new joint – the London Cocktail club at 61 Goodge Street...

There are many items for sale which the merest whiff of association with a celebrity chef can help shift - books, saucepans, stock cubes, to name just a few. However its seems as though London...

All the speculation in the world couldn't persuade Michelin UK to reveal who'd got a Michelin star this year ahead of today's announcement. So we were all gathered at Michelin House to find out...

Eager diners who were quick off the mark to book a table at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental may have to rush online to book a second table as Heston revealed today that the...

Hot Dinners finds out from outgoing Michelin Guide Editor Derek Bulmer what propels a restaurant into the stars.

We're looking forward to the opening next week of Opera Tavern, the new Covent Garden offering from the people behind Salt Yard and Dehesa, particularly now we've found out it will open with a soft...

There must have been jubilation all round at Caprice Holdings last night, when the news broke that Westminster Council had finally agreed to give Richard Caring a licence to open a massive new...

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, so when Hot Dinners read the headlines yesterday that Ferran Adria, he of El Bulli fame, was opening a tapas restaurant, we presumed that someone had...

Just as the awards season in Hollywood is getting into gear at the moment, January is also the month when many of the big restaurant guides begin to announce their gongs for the year. First up is...

Michel Roux Jnr talks to Hot Dinners about his new TV show, which London restaurants he really rates and reveals his opinion of Masterchef spoof filmmakers.

For Hot Dinners, January is far from being a depressing month. With a large number of Londoners steering clear of bars and trying to tighten their purse strings, the field is left clear for us to...

The London scene may be anticipating a raft of big name openings this year, but it's not alone. The seaside town of Folkestone has three big openings planned for this year which should put the south...

Three months after she announced her departure from Gordon Ramsay Holdings, Angela Hartnett today revealed her first solo business venture. She's just signed up as a consultant to trendy East London...