News & reviews

Stevie Parle's new restaurant Rotorino (which opens on 10 April) has been heralded as somewhere to challenge the perception of Dalston as a place where cocktails are only to be served out of jam...

After a rapid refurbishment, Thai chain Busaba Eathai reopened its Old Street branch last week with the addition of its first dedicated cocktail bar, tucked away at the back of its bustling...

News reaches us of another pop-up that's grown roots as Check On settles down with a restaurant above the Dead Doll's House on Hoxton Square.   Check On are George Craig ("singer, Burberry model and DJ/club...

Update 2/4 - tickets are now on sale Last year Hot Dinners was very proud to be a part of Auction Against Hunger, set up by Ben Maschler in aid of Action Against Hunger. That auction raised over...

We first heard about Kurobuta opening in July of last year. Since then, Scott Hallsworth, the former head chef of Nobu and recently Wabi London, has run an extremely successful preview of the...

Updated 1/4/14 with details of dishes We've known for a while that City Social was on the way, taking over the Tower 42 restaurant that used to be Rhodes 24 and then became an interim Anthony...

Mixing Mayfair glamour with an Anglo-Italian welcome, it's no surprise that Angela Hartnett's Murano continues to pull in the crowds.

There's been much talk about London restaurants, no bookings and queues over the past week or so - particularly responding to articles in both the Guardian and The Times. But that may all be coming to an...

If we're not hearing about new restaurants, the next biggest thing seems to be restaurant revamps. Now we hear about MODE, a new restaurant coming to Notting Hill that's taking things a bit further...

You may have encountered the talents of When Mac Met Cheese at various pop-ups and market stalls around town over the past few years. Now they're stepping things up a notch with a three month...

Once again the people behind Hawksmoor and Foxlow come up trumps with a dish that stops you in your tracks. Although hopefully not quite like the permanent stop that The King came to after eating...

Just opened at King's Cross and hitting the hotdog and doughnut trend square on is Coffee Dogs. It's the brainchild of the folk behind Fine Burger Co and you'll find it wrapped around a ventilation...

Enoteca Super Tuscan founder Nick Grossi has announced its first ‘Super Tuscan Wine Week’ due to be held at the Spitalfields restaurant and wine bar at the end of April. The event will showcase a...

When news broke yesterday that Gordon Ramsay had paid £1.2 million for a Chelsea restaurant site, it was interesting for two reasons. First, the fact that El Gordo would be opening his third...

Updated 11/4 with booking details. It would be fair to say that the opening of Simon Rogan's restaurant at Claridge's is the most-anticipated London restaurant opening this year. We've had some...

Koya, Soho's favourite udon noodle bar is getting a special new menu to celebrate its fourth birthday. Chef Junya Yamasaki's BackBench set menu is specially designed to let him go "beyond the...

Bar supremo Tony Conigliaro has been turning out some amazing cocktails from his diminuitive bar at 69 Colebrooke Row in Islington for five years now. But the one thing the bar has lacked has been a...

Updated 26/3/14 with new images and menus He's known for being one of the most exacting and demanding chefs in the business, so when Marcus Wareing announced he was undertaking nothing less than a...

We had a cracking (or should that be crackling) dinner at Blackfoot when it first opened and at the time thought what a brilliant place it would be for weekend brunch. Now, lovers of all things...

We head over to London's new much bigger Big Easy, in Covent Garden for a BBQ blowout.