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What better way to get in the mood for a thoroughly London Christmas than heading over to Hawker House who'll be hosting Gizzi Erskine's #TwistedChristmas on 14 December. Traders already confirmed...

Is this a sign of London's improving fortunes? Three years after it was taken off the menu due to customers feeling the pinch, caviar is now back at Green's Restaurant & Oyster Bar. It was...

Giving us yet another reason to head to Covent Garden, the people behind the Experimental Cocktail Club will open their next London venue towards the end of the year called Compagnie des Vins...

(Updated 28/11 with soft launch details) A new restaurant is coming to Exmouth Market, celebrating all things piggy. Blackfoot is from Tom Ward and Allegra McEvedy, both previously at Leon and is...

Mark Hix already has a "Hix" restaurant on the ground floor of Selfridges but he's just added a second pop-up for anyone browsing the store's just-launched men's shoe department. It's much, much...

We've had the cronut, the doissant, even the controversial duffin - now Selfridges on Oxford Street wants in on the action and is launching the biskie. The biskie is a cookie/cake/biscuit combo...

American website Daily Meal has just released its list of the Top 35 airport restaurants around the world. We thought it might make interesting reading, particularly given the news a few weeks ago...

A timeless French restaurant returns to London - we head to Mayfair to try out the new incarnation of Boulestin.

Start the day in London with a breakfast that serves up the whole of London as the view. With Aqua Shard being the first place at the Shard to do breakfast we went along to try it out.

(2/12 - Update - we've now been to the Ape and Bird - check out our Test Drive.) They brought us the joys of cicheti and Negronis when they introduced Londoners to the joys of a Venetian bàcaro with...

They only opened their doors this summer but this weekend Hackney restaurant Raw Duck (an offshoot of Ducksoup in Soho) is facing imminent demolition. Seems that the nearby excavation for...

(Updated 22/11 with soft launch details) Ever since the restaurant at Ransome's Dock closed this summer, Battersea residents have been waiting to find out who'll take over. Well Hot Dinners has the...

London is about to get another big new BBQ restaurant as Chelsea institution, Big Easy Bar.B.Q & Crabshack gets ready to open a new restaurant in Covent Garden's Maiden Lane early next year. The city's...

We realise that quite a few people get a bit bah-humbug at this time of year but here at Hot Dinners, we are very excited about the onset of the Christmas season. And one of the reasons is the...

Seems like the growth of chicken restaurants in London isn't slowing any time soon. Now a new one is destined to open just off Columbia Road before Christmas. Clutch bills itself as a guilt-free...

When Rita's Bar and dining landed in Dalston last year, it was an instant hit - with its frozen margaritas (ooh, we just got that...) and the food, particularly the Southern Fried Chicken Roll and...

We're very fond of Wright Bros Soho, so the news that they're about to take on their most ambitious restaurant to date came as music to our ears. And what a venture. They're taking over what was...

If you were off Twitter over the weekend, you may have missed the latest storm created by the Times restaurant critic Giles Coren. So what has Giles done this time you may be wondering. Has he...

Updated 15/11/13 with new burger details Burger lovers in Primrose Hill won't have to go too far for their fix when Tommi's opens a residency at the Princess of Wales next month. The ongoing monthly...

Updated 15/11/13 with soft launch details It's all happening over in Fitzrovia as we get the exclusive on another place opening on Windmill Street this Autumn. Just down the road from Drakes...