With no less than five sumptuous courses, all served up with Absolut's new Single Estate mixed up into silky smooth cocktails to suit each dish, I guarantee your taste buds will thank you when you take a seat at the HIX table.

Here is a selection of private dining rooms across London for your next big event, party or business meeting.

The Dîner des Grands Chefs is in its third year, first they took their knives and expertise to the Château de Versailles, last year it was Gotham Hall in New York. Just 600 places are up for grabs as the former fish market on the banks of the Thames, Old Billingsgate, is transformed into 'theatre of food'.

Worn almost as a badge of pride by the likes of Bubble Dogs, Barrafina, Lobster Burger, MEATLiquor, Polpo, 10 Greek St and, of course, Dishoom, the no reservation policy might as well be a by-word for trendy, casual dining. It also means that if you get your timing wrong you could be waiting up to two hours to eat.

Restaurant reviews generate mixed emotions in people with small children: there's nostalgia for a time when keeping up with the latest gastronomic tre...

I'm not normally startled at the ever-escalating prices of some of London's restaurants. There's no hiding the fact that our capital is packed with so...

But why shouldn't we have the freedom to pre-plan our meals. Why indeed. But enough of the play acting and menu scanning I beg you, just come out of the closet.

Purple is long-gone but Vingt-Quatre is alive and well, and has just had a makeover. I popped along to see if I could recapture some of my glory days. Unfortunately, not being almost 18 years old anymore, I get tired nowadays, and so I went for dinner, rather than at 3am.

There's a confidence about the food at Moro that's been there from the first day they fired-up the wood-burning oven and opened the restaurant doors. ...

With all the new restaurant openings in London it's important not to forget the ones that impressed you a year or two ago.

It's 7:45, we've been queuing for almost an hour and we're nowhere near the front. My friend's loafers are failing to keep her toes warm in sub-zero temperatures. My other friend keeps wiping her runny nose on her glove, and another has lost the will to talk completely. We are in the queue for Meat Liquor, London's restaurant du jour, waiting for what should probably be the best burgers of our entire lives.

If you're looking for somewhere special to celebrate an occasion or impress a date then Paramount, might just be the place for you.