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After a successful venture on the King's Road, Scott Hallsworth brings Kurobuta to its main home in Marylebone. We check it out.

While Hot Dinners were ignoring vertigo and pressing our noses up against the window in the Shangri-La Shard doing the traditional "where's my house?" motions, across town there was another...

With Summer only just round the corner, Shrimpy's in King's Cross is reopening its terrace and adding something new to the menu too. They're kicking things off on the concourse with kimchi hotdogs, frozen...

This little beauty is a Surf Board - a new lunchtime offering from Wright Bros Soho. Aimed at those among us who can't skip out for three hour lunches, these combos of seafood, salads and side...

Hot Dinners Exclusive. One of the great lures of Maltby St Market is getting there early enough to ensure you walk away with a stash of St John's legendary custard doughnuts. Following the opening...

It's time for another round up of the movers and shakers on our exhaustive new and upcoming restaurants list. As you all know, dates are changing all the time and the amount of new restaurants being...

Payday may have only just been and gone, but you'll be glad to know about the new Retro menu at Randall & Aubin later in the month when you're not feeling so flush...

A Hot Dinners exclusive Eagle-eyed Mayfair workers this morning may have spotted something new about the May Fair Hotel. New awnings have just gone up on the hotel for a restaurant they're unveiling later...

This sounds like a pretty good evening out. For one night only Singleton are running a night market dedicated to single malt whisky. The Singleton Whisky Night Market takes place on Thursday 15 May,...

Ben's Canteen has been a big hit in Battersea, not least because of its Scotch Eggs and the sausage rolls which recently came top in the 2014 Sausage roll-off. Now they're heading further south as a...

We're six weeks shy of the World Cup so to get you in the mood here's a burrito beauty which is the work of London chain Benito's Hat. The Roy Hodgson inspired bur-ROY-to is a limited edition offer...

We've been hearing murmurings that Pitt Cue Co will be bringing their van to an new location soon. While we're waiting to get more info on that, we've had news of a restaurant swap they'll be doing...

If you can't wait until Bea Vo opens her new restaurant Stax Carnaby, then you might want to book for her popular Louisiana-style Crawfish Boil which is popping up at the Carnaby site for four days...

The George & Dragon in Acton, an Acton mainstay that hails from the 17th century, is completely revamping what used to be its dining room into a microbrewery and the menu's getting an overhaul too. 5...

Planning on waiting for the crowds to subside before you brave the return journey tonight? A lot of London's restaurants and bars are hoping you'll do just that and some are even coming up with...

The gulls' egg season is upon us and if you want to enjoy the delights of this shortest of seasonal treats you'll have to be quick - it ends in just four weeks time. Here are a few places we know of...

Jason Atherton's next restaurant is almost upon us. The word from those who have been to the friends and family soft launches is already very promising and now Hot Dinners has been given a first...

We head to Shoreditch to try the new venture from James Lowe in the Tea Building. 

It's been a pretty good year for London in this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants List. With two restaurants in the Top 10 - The Ledbury and Dinner by Heston - the UK's capital holds its own with...

Toto's is a new Italian restaurant coming to Knightsbridge. It's name comes from the legendary Italian clown Totò, but with Silvano Giraldin acting as consultant for front-of-house we won't be...