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Updated 19/5/15 with gallery from first night Irish food writer and TV chef Clodagh McKenna is heading to London. She'll be running a three day pop-up restaurant at Selfridges showcasing Irish food...

While it looks like the good weather is with us for a short while, there's another option to sit out in the garden if you prefer the security of a cover over your cocktail. The Sky Pod bar at Sky...

  Updated 8/4/15 with opening date and booking details When the news broke a year ago, that Gordon Ramsay had bought back the lease on the site where he'd first come to fame with Aubergine, there was no...

Housed in what's best known as Michelin House, the upstairs Bibendum restaurant (named after the Michelin Man himself) has just got a new chef and also has a revamp underway, courtesy of none other than...

Elliot's Brett Redman has teamed up with Margaret Crow to bring a new lease of life to this pub in Hackney. We take a look. 

Holland Park restaurant Flat Three is 'taking inspiration from flavours of Japanese, Korean and Scandinavian cultures’. We went to see how that works. 

Save some room after all those Easter eggs - London's top pastry chefs are conjuring up some incredible chocolate brownies to auction off for charity. So if you've ever wanted to try a one-off...

Tom and Ed Martin (of the ETM group) are heading into late night territory with the opening of their 15th venue, The Botanist at Broadgate Circle. The huge bar and restaurant will be part of the £20...

Finally, real news is starting to filter through about Alan Yau's big new venture, the Chinese gastropub Duck & Rice. He's taken over the site that used to be the Endurance in Soho (right next door...

Bonhams Restaurant is already proving to be an incredibly popular lunchspot since it opened (see our Test Drive here). But its limited opening hours (just breakfast and lunch) prevented many of you,...

If you like your afternoon teas classic with a twist, you'll want to book a table at a tea pop-up coming to Burlington Arcade. For just under three months luxury bespoke dining company Cuisson in...

Already popular in King's Cross and Blackfriars, Camino are about to open south of the river in Bankside, which has had a slowly improving restaurant scene over the past year.  As with the original...

OK, now it really IS a trend. Another Greek restaurant is coming to London, this time an "Athenian grill house" called Suvlaki which will be opening in Soho. The souvlaki is a grilled meat skewer...

Manuka Kitchen is one of those rare restaurants that AA Gill has awarded five stars for food (9/10 overall) so anything from the same people is definitely worth paying attention to. The owners, Joseph...

The always-innovative chef Tom Sellers has just brought in The Bedtime Story at Restaurant Story. It's a new course of digestif and chocolate pairing. There's a short, curated selection of digestifs...

  Updated: 12pm 1/4/15 - some of you guessed it, but others were definitely fooled. This was the Hot Dinners 2015 April Fool. But let's face it, it's only a matter of time before it really happens... Seems...

The new development at Broadgate, launching in April, continues to get some interesting sites. The latest is a permanent home for Beany Green coffee (they've had a kiosk in the area for a while)...

One beneficiary of the dissolution of parliament for the upcoming election are London's diners who'll get to eat inside both houses of Parliament. It's the second time for the House of Commons,...

  Win a pair of tickets to a preview dinner at Ippudo Canary Wharf It seems there's still plenty of room for ramen in the city as Ippudo are confirmed to be opening a second London restaurant in the...

A new Byron burger is always worthy of anyone's attention and their latest Italian-themed special is no exception. Head Chef Fred Smith and founder Tom Byng visited Italy to check out their burger scene...