News & reviews

Once again, and for the fourth year in a row, the Langham's Artesian has topped the World's 50 Best Bars list. We won't argue with this one, we thought their SNAX bar menu was one of the best we've ever...

Billed as "a festival of culture, catwalks, cocktails and conversation" Stylist Live is going to be taking over the Business Design Centre in Islington for four days this month, and there's a lot to...

The bit around the back of Finsbury Park station is slowly becoming an interesting place to eat and drink. In addition to the pretty decent bar at the Park Theatre and popular new burger and burrito spot...

It's been a Clapham fave for some time and now Adam Byatt's Trinity is getting ready to re-open after a big refurbishment - with a new upstairs restaurant, to boot. There will be a new casual dining...

Both Berber and Q and Chick N Sours have been amazing additions to Haggerston this year (and if you haven't been to either of them, we urge you to go). And now they're swapping places too - for two...

There's more change on the way to Exmouth Market as one of the top pizza purveyors of Soho are on the way there with their latest pizzeria. Expect lots of pizza. In case you're not aware of them...

This looks rather fun. It's a Sake flight on the bar menu at Bar 45 at 45 Park Lane hotel. It ties in with the fact that the hotel's head sommelier Vanessa Cinti has just qualified as a sake...

Le Pont de la Tour has just thrown open its doors to the public again - we head down there to see what's new.

Like beer? Love bread? Well put this date in your diary. From 27-31 October Tom and Henry Herbert of the Fabulous Baker Brothers and AB InBev are opening a popup combining both those ingredients...

Looks like Paddington just got an interesting place to grab a morning coffee or lunchtime snack. Kioskafé, a newsstand and coffee bar opened last week - it's a new project from the folk behind...

The Ivy has had a pretty busy past year. Not only have they revamped their original restaurant to great acclaim, but they also opened the Ivy Market Grill and the Ivy Chelsea Garden. And now there's a...

There's a new high-end Indian restaurant on the way to the City, coming from Abdul Yaseen, a chef who has worked over a decade at Cinnamon Club and Cinnamon Kitchen.  It's a banqueting experience, inspired...

Find out (and see) which London restaurants have the best looking gaffs. 

Pan Asian, small plates, killer cocktails and top-end service. In the space formerly occupied by One Kensington, a new lounge style restaurant and bar is opening later this month which has all the...

  A Hot Dinners Exclusive (updated with new pics) Caprice and Richard Caring have been having a pretty good year with the rapturous reception of the revamped Ivy and now they're moving onto a brand new...

Well now, THIS is quite a story. News broke this afternoon that Clare Smyth, currently Chef Patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, is to open her own restaurant, with Ramsay's backing. Smyth has been...

Fish and chips aren't just for Fridays. Stoke Newington based chippy Sutton & Sons is proving such a success (also opening in Boxpark in Shoreditch) they're opening a new site in Islington's Essex...

From pop-up, to permanant site: after two years on the street food and festival scene, Night Tales has found a new home in the heart of London Fields, just down the road from Broadway Market. In the...

Looks like there's a pizza war hotting up on Charing Cross Road. At one end of the road you have newly-opened NY Fold from American pizza champion Bruno DiFabio, and now there's Fornetto setting out...

Updated 1/1015 with soft launch details. A few more details are creeping out about the ever-popular Dishoom, which is returning to central London for its next opening. It's a big site, being over...