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28/4 - updated with opening date One of the most trusted old favourites in London is Gordon's Wine Bar on Villiers Street, where we've found ourselves on many an occasion over the years and which...

Already a hit in Camden, where it opened its first restaurant early last year, Porky's BBQ restaurant is getting ready to open its second restaurant in Bankside.

A host of chefs, foodies and writers gathered at Peruvian restaurant Lima yesterday for their Lima experience Nikkei Sunday. Virgilio Martinez (executive chef at LIMA and chef patron of Central in...

King's Cross continues to reinvent itself as a place you'd actually travel to for good food and now there's a new restaurant on the way with a specific focus on sustainability, T.E.D.

There are just three more days to go before we find out whether Spain's El Celler De Can Roca (pictured) has managed to hold on to its position at the top of the World's 50 Best Restaurants list for...

Under normal circumstances, a chef would be be pretty put out if you were to lower your head gently into your desserts and start snoozing at the table. But if Garry Hollihead's new sleep menu at The...

Farringdon is getting a new Iberica next week and this one will feature something slightly different to the other branches - a larger bar complete with cocktail list and bar menu. Hot Dinners got a...

Hot Dinners was at the Angel, Islington last night where Jamie Oliver and cocktail guru Simon Difford were holding court at the launch of Jamie's first Cocktail & Spritz Bar. The space has been...

There's been a huge amount of interest in the restaurant planned for Bethnal Green's Town Hall Hotel ever since Lee Westcott was named as the chef whose restaurant would be replacing Nuno Mendes'...

British Airways is launching its Summer-long rooftop cinema on May 1st and it's brought in regular partner Michelin-starred chef Simon Hulstone to provide the popcorn.  He'll be producing "Chim...

The shortlist for this year's Cateys - an industry awards for the hospitality business run by Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine - has just been announced and several London restaurants and chefs are...

Coppa, the rooftop restaurant by the people behind Lardo was a big hit last summer, so it's great news to hear that it's returning next month. They'll be housed on the roof of the Hothouse building...

Much as we might like to give the impression we're omniscient, it's impossible for us to cover every part of town, so we're always grateful when a Hot Dinners reader emails in on a place they think...

We picked wine bars as one of the top trends of 2013 and that looks set to carry on throughout 2014, the latest being a new addition to Hackney. Verden is coming from long-time friends Ed Wyand,...

A few year back we were lucky to make a trip to Danesfield House when Adam Simmonds was in charge of the kitchen. We had one of our best meals of that year there and realised that the chef was...

For many, you can take your 80% Valrhona Easter egg and shove it - Cadbury's Creme Egg is where all the action is over Easter. And this year there are a couple of so-wrong-it's-right ways to try it...

We know that Scott Collins of MEATliquor has been involved with Wishbone for a while, but now it's more official as MEATliquor formally takes on the reins - including a revamp of the menu. Alongside the Thai...

16/4 - Updated with opening date and menu details. Late last year saw the extremely unexpected closure of Rawduck as nearby excavations made the building they were housed in unsafe (and also delayed the...

We've been waiting to hear about a date for the opening of Soho Grind - the second coffee spot to follow on from the successful Shoreditch Grind spot. Now we've had confirmation that they'll be...

OK - so this actually opened a few weeks back, but since we've given up sweets for Lent it would have been too hard to write about the opening of Selfridges' spangly new Confectionery Hall any...