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Hot Dinners exclusive As if having the marvellous Bistrot Bruno Loubet wasn’t enough of a draw, the Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell is adding a destination cocktail bar when it opens its Georgian-style...

Frazzled last-minute Christmas shoppers - or anyone planning to head into the West End for the January sales - should take note of a new haven at Momo on Heddon Street. The Moroccan restaurant has...

[Update: Spice Market London opened on 14 February 2011] On the site of what used to be the Swiss Centre, New York celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten recently announced he's opening a London...

Marlon Abela - the man behind The Greenhouse and Umu in London and A Voce in New York, among others, is planning two new restaurants for London in addition to his latest venture, Cassis, which...

It's the festive season and what better way to celebrate Christmas than with a glass of two of fizz? Perfect timing then for the new champagne bar which opened yesterday at Paddington station. It's...

There's a gem of a story in the Metro about a Paddington curry house which has just been done for writing its own fake reviews. Anyone passing by The Connoisseurs Indian Tandoori on Norfolk Place...

If you're bored of the usual bars and looking for somewhere extraordinary to take a pre-prandial drink this weekend, you might want to take a wander down Tooley Street. Eagle-eyed denizens of London...

At Hot Dinners we are usually more interested by London's finer dining establishments, but we find ourselves strangely drawn to the idea of the new Burger King dessert bar which has just opened in...

Nestled among the Christmas markets and party revellers on the South Bank this weekend, the Chocolate Festival will be providing some pre-Christmas indulgence on a grand scale. Some of the best...

Last week, Hot Dinners was invited to the launch of the new GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity exhibition at the Royal Academy.  What has this to do with food, you might ask?  Well, for...

Updated: 13 January 2012: Gordon's first Las Vegas restaurant will be called Gordon Ramsay Steak and is expected to open in Spring 2012. The steakhouse will have 274 covers and includes a large bar...

Hot Dinners braved the snow on Wednesday to head down to the launch of the recently-opened Bougie Macaron & Tea at 3 Russell Street in Covent Garden. Run by Frenchman Jean Nedelec, the West End...

We’re liking the sound of the new QV Bar opening on the ground floor of Quo Vadis in January. According to a press release the bar will be run by award-winning mixologist Paul Mant, who’s presided...

Table bookings for Heston Blumenthal’s new Knightsbridge restaurant almost brought booking lines down today as more than 4000 covers were booked in the first five hours of the telephone lines...

At 9am this morning (December 1st) the booking lines opened for Heston Blumenthal's eagerly awaited London restaurant - Dinner by Heston Blumenthal.  Given that it's the first London restaurant to be...

It was one of the biggest restaurant stories of the past few weeks, that Jeremy King and Chris Corbin had finally signed a deal to open a sibling restaurant to their massively successful Piccadilly...

Hot Dinners is full of the festive spirit following a party over at the Danish embassy last night where cookery writer Trine Hahnemann presided over a splendid spread for the Ambassador’s Nordic...

Anyone who's a fan of Ottolenghi, whether it's their restaurants or the cookbook, will be pleased to hear that they're branching out by opening a standalone restaurant called NOPI in Soho next year. As...

Hot Dinners have been following with interest the story of the penniless Latvian filmmaker who embarked on a fortnight of scamming some of London's most expensive restaurants by enjoying lavish...

When single mother Holli Ugalde won Hell's Kitchen USA there was a lot of buzz over the fact that she'd be working for Gordon Ramsay at the much-anticipated reopening of the Savoy Grill. But the...