Notting Hill

  • Core by Clare Smyth

    Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Notting Hill

  • Chai Guys Bakehouse will serve up fusion pastries on Portobello Road

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    Updated 9/11/23 with menu details and new opening date

    Over the past few years, Abhilash Jobanputra and Gabriel Unger have built up a loyal following for their Chai Guys stalls in places like Seven Dials Market, Covent Garden and Old Spitalfields Market. But this year marks the time when they switched it up as the pair are opening a bakery cafe in Notting Hill.

    Their bakehouse on Portobello Road,

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  • Orasay

    Notting Hill restaurant from Jackson Boxer with a seafood focus. 

  • Core by Clare Smyth opens Whiskey & Seaweed Bar in Notting Hill

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    Back at the end of summer, Clare Smyth's three Michelin-starred restaurant Core shut its doors in Notting Hill for what they described as "a refurbishment of our bar and dining room". Now it turns out that they've spent that time not simply refurbishing the restaurant but in fact building a new bar.

    Whiskey & Seaweed (the e in the name will be a nod to Clare's Northern Irish heritage) is named after

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  • Ladbroke Hall sees art and dining collide in Notting Hill

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    17/10/23 - Updated with a look inside and details of the menu

    Back in 1903 the UK's first purpose-built car factory and showroom opened in Notting Hill. In the intervening years, the building has had many other uses including, most recently, operating as a photography studio. Now it's in its most recent iteration as Ladbroke Hall, a self-styled 'arts stage' which brings together

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  • The Knight of Notting Hill takes over from The KPH

    The Knight of Notting Hill takes over from The KPH

    Updated 6/10/23 with opening date

    The pub that was once The KPH in Notting Hill is going through another big revamp and is set to emerge as The Knight of Notting Hill. 

    It'll be the second free house pub from Zora Singh, who also opened Three Falcons in St John's Wood, which ...

  • The Walmer Castle is reopening in Notting Hill with (another) new owner in charge

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    Another day, another news story about Notting Hill. That part of London is on fire at the moment when it comes to interesting food and drink openings. Today we bring you news not of a new opening but a reopening. Two prominent teams have so far failed to turn The Walmer Castle into a thriving business. First up we had David Beckham

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  • The Trailer Happiness team are opening Portobello 177 in Notting Hill

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    It's a good year for the team behind Trailer Happiness. Not only is their OG bar in Notting Hill celebrating its 20th birthday this year, but they're also on the verge of opening a new restaurant. Portobello 177 is taking over the space upstairs from the bar on Portobello Road where it'll have room for 50 diners.

    Heading up the kitchen will be chef Shay Ola of the Rebel Dining Society who's describing his menu here as

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  • Ria's hit up Notting Hill with their Detroit-style pizzas and natural wine

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    Over the weekend the latest addition to the hotter-than-hot Notting Hill dining scene opened its doors. Ria's is a new all-day spot that kicks off with home-baked cookies in the morning, moving to focaccia sandwiches by lunch. In the evenings things go up a notch as the space transforms into a natural wine and pizza bar.

    The pizzas they're serving are deep pan-style Detroit pizza pies made with wildfarmed flour which can

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  • The Ledbury

    Brett Graham's restaurant in Notting Hill

  • Rowley Leigh pops up in Notting Hill with Chez Rowley residency

    Rowley Leigh pops up in Notting Hill with Chez Rowley residency

    It's been a while since we last saw chef Rowley Leigh in a London kitchen. After closing  Le Cafe Anglais in 2014 (his follow-up to Kensington Place) he helped open Cafe Monico on Shaftesbury Avenue but has been relatively quiet since then. But now the chef is back, popping up at a Notting Hill residency. 

    Chez Rowley will be an Italian bistro, featuring dishes

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  • Wild Notting Hill is a Wild Tavern spin-off

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    23/9/23 - updated with the opening date

    Four years after they opened Wild Tavern in Chelsea, the team behind that is opening Wild Notting Hill. It is, as you'll have guessed from the name, in the heart of W11, having taken over the space left by popular brunch spot 202 on Westbourne Road.

    There will be a lot of similarities, Hot Dinners was told, between the OG Wild Tavern and the Notting Hill

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  • 310 Portobello is The Pelican and Straker's Notting Hill summer pop-up

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    They're two of the hottest places in West London right now and over the course of the summer The Pelican and Straker's have taken over the spot on Portobello Road that was Pizza East for a pop-up.

    The menu is short and sweet serving up dishes like fritto misto and aubergine parmigiana together with the fabulous flatbreads that customers have raved about in reviews of Straker’s and which the chef will be

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  • If you love oats you're going to love Oatis the oat cafe opening in Notting Hill

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    London does love a themed cafe and the one arriving in West London this summer is going to go big on one ingredient, oats. OATIS will be open for breakfast and lunch on Queensway and oats will be at the heart of everything they serve. And these are not just any old oats but steel-cut oats which, we're told, gives them more 'bite'.

    To kick off your day there will be oat bowls, smoothies and pancake offerings

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  • Empire Empire brings Indian food and disco to Notting Hill

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    17/5/23 - updated with more details about the menu

    Notting Hill continues to go from strength to strength and the latest to enter the fray there is the man behind popular Indian restaurant Gunpowder. Empire Empire is on the way. 

    Led by Gunpowder's Harneet Baweja, it's actually planned to be a mix of Indian food and disco music, with a focus on the seventies music scene in

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