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Love it or loathe it, the World Cup starts today and for the next four weeks it's not going anywhere. Even if you're firmly in the 'loathing' camp there's plenty to take advantage of at London...

The 2014 Taste of London festival kicks off on Wednesday 18th June and to celebrate Cellar Gascon are going to be featuring a ‘Best of Taste’ menu at Cellar Gascon over the Summer from Wednesday. The menu...

How cute is this? Last year we had the Wimbledon-themed tennis bombe at Mayfair restaurant 34. This year you can try this New Balls Please dessert on the menu at Black Vanila's Wimbledon-themed pop up...

That William Shakespeare was a wise old goat. After all he did come up with the line "Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers." (Yes we can Google Shakespeare food quotes along with the...

Updated 10/6/14 with dishes and opening date The original Barrafina in Covent Garden is one of Soho's most revered (and hard to get a seat at) restaurants. We've long been watching the development of the...

We go to the 24th floor at Tower 42 to try the latest restaurant from the very busy Jason Atherton - City Social.

To be honest, when we first had someone tell us about 'musubi' we hadn't an earthly what they were. Happily the folk behind Broadway Market stall Mr Musubi were only too pleased to enlighten us -...

To tie in with the release of Chef - Jon Favreau's new movie about a chef quitting his job to start up a food truck business and rediscover his passion for cooking - London's Patty&Bun have come up...

Hot Dinners popped along to a screening of Chef this weekend and caught up with writer/director Jon Favreau afterwards who had some interesting things to say about how chefs view critics. As a...

Updated 7/6/14 with photo and opening date London has had its fair share of rotisserie chicken joints and with Nando's having such obsessive fans it's a brave person who steps into the fray with a...

Footballers are pretty keen on opening restaurants. There's Gary Nevile and Ryan Giggs' Cafe Football in Westfield Stratford (which is a LOT better than you'd expect). Rio Ferdinand owns the...

Heston Blumenthal takes on airport food with his Perfectionists' Cafe at the new Heathrow Terminal 2. We went along to try Heston's fast food...

A good pub, handsomely restored is always a thing of joy, but there are a few more compelling reasons to be interested in the reopening of The Adam & Eve on Homerton High Street. Matt Chatfield of...

Award winning chocolatier Paul A Young has announced his latest collaboration with Churchill's port. Launched last week, the partnership sees Paul's fine chocolates matched with a series of rare and...

A new pizza restaurant, Yard Sale Pizza, opens on Lower Clapton Road today, offering informal dine in as well as takeaway and delivery to Hackney and the surrounding area. The Yard Sale team are...

It was hard for us to focus on the rest of the food offering at new Mayfair cocktail bar The Bar at Bellamy's once we'd seen the immortal words 'Foie Gras toasties'. Now we know that's not for...

Update 10/9/14 - find out more about the Seamus Mullen's Sea Containers restaurant. Exclusive announcement. The rumours had been around for a while but now it's confirmed that another big-name New...

These days, there's no escaping the all-pervasive burger trend even if you're 35,000 feet above the ground. The latest to unveil their signature burger is British Airways, who have just started...

This my friends is The Cochonette - a special going on the set lunch menu at Paddington restaurant Angelus from this Wednesday for a week. It's a tribute to the restaurant's owner Thierry Tomasin's love...

Piccadilly food store Fortnum & Mason continues to innovate under the leadership of Ewan Ventners who moved over here from Selfridges in 2012. Their latest wheeze is to run a weekly supperclub every...