News & reviews

Everyone's favourite oddball events organisers Bompas & Parr are at it again and this time they've taken their antics up to the top of The Shard. The duo are behind The Height of Winter, which has...

30/11/15 - updated with soft launch info Chef Brett Redman is set to open a new Japanese yakitori restaurant in Dalston. The restaurant, which opens this Autumn draws upon the rich tradition of...

29/11/15 - updated with soft launch details. There's a new pizzeria on the way to Shoreditch as Homeslice (already big in Covent Garden and Fitzrovia) is due to open there before the end of the...

So there's a new chicken shop opening in London. If those words make you yawn - then hold on. Sounds like Billy and the Chicks might actually bring something new to the table. The bloke behind this...

Updated 26/11/15 with soft launch details We've been big fans of Flat Iron since its early days as a pop-up so news that they're expanding to a massive new Covent Garden restaurant before the end of...

26/11/15 - updated with opening date. Having just opened in Westfield, Danny Meyer's US burger chain Shake Shack is growing again. One is a little further away in Cardiff, but closer to home is the...

There's a new wine list at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and it aims to light a small fire under the way in which wine is sold and enjoyed in top restaurants. The list is the brainchild of the three...

The MEATliquor sibling CHICKENliquor in Brixton has a new addition just coming onto the menu - Nashville Fried Chicken - and it DOES sound good (and spicy). It's billed as "tender chicken fillets...

The next big addition to King's Cross is the new Lighterman pub - coming to Granary Square early in 2016. But there's an earlier change to see what they'll have coming up as they launch their...

25/11 - updated with opening date and more details. Following their City restaurant, M Restaurants are the latest to join the rush to Victoria, with plans to open in the Zig Zag building (which...

It's all change on Wardour Street with the announcement that a new restaurant is taking over the site once occupied by the Marquee Club. 100 Wardour Street will be the third restaurant to open on...

Last night, Hot Dinners popped along to The Shard for our first official Christmas party of the season. The do was to launch Vivienne Westwood's Christmas tree at aqua shard, which is part of a...

This sounds good - Jose Pizarro in Broadgate has just launched a new Saturday menu where the main attraction is a Castillian leg of lamb (pata means hind leg of an animal). That full menu is: Jamón/ Tomate...

There's a new addition to King's Cross in the shape of the huge new German Gymnasium from D&D. 

This much-anticipated wine bar hits Lamb's Conduit Street and immediately makes itself at home

A Hot Dinners Exclusive Lucky Chip were one of the first wave of burger vans who showed Londoners just what a good burger actually was (it's hard to remember now but a few short years ago in London a...

We're all for great sushi here at Hot Dinners, and by all accounts a new group from the Middle East is bringing some top sushi to this city when they open their first restaurant in London next year. Oliver...

Many people knew Paulo De Tarso best as the masterly Maitre d’ looking after Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental - one of our personal favourite restaurants in town. And now he's opening his own...

When the much-vaunted Tasmanian restaurant Garagistes announced it was closing in Spring this year, folk down under wondered where the respective members of the talented crew would end up. Co owner...

If you’re a sushi fiend, you’ll know the cravings are likely to strike at any time. You could be sitting at your desk or going from A to B and suddenly you’ll find yourself with a desire for fresh...