Kensington

• The best restaurants in Chelsea

  

  From longstanding neighbourhood favourites to more glitzy, new establishments, this part of town has it all. We pick out the best restaurants in Chelsea for your delectation. 

• A new Ta’mini Lebanese Bakery to open in Kensington

  

  When you can’t have too much of a good thing, along comes the third Ta’mini Lebanese Bakery in London. After successful launches in Fulham (during the first COVID lockdown of 2020) and Bloomsbury (in 2023), Ta’mini will next waft the aromas of freshly baked date bread through the streets of Kensington.

  The husband-and-wife team behind the concept - Ali from North Lebanon and Nermin from Beirut -

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• Bancone's next fresh pasta restaurant will be in Kensington

  

  Slowly but surely, some notably interesting restaurants have been opening around High Street Kensington station. We had the excellent Krokodilos fairly recently and now Bancone have picked the area for their fourth location.

  If you're unfamiliar with Bancone, they're predominantly

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• Burger & Lobster replaces Gordon Ramsay's Street Burger in Kensington

  

  Updated 10/4/25 opening date

  On Kensington High Street, one burger chain has closed to be replaced with another - albeit with the added bonus of lobster.

  The new owners are Burger and Lobster and this will be their tenth London restaurant. You can expect this branch to serve the usual menu of lobster, lobster rolls and burgers (although we'd say

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• Passyunk Avenue's cheesesteaks have arrived in Kensington

  

  There are certainly a lot of high-end openings around Kensington of late (we very much enjoyed the recent Krokodilos opening). But now there's something that's a little bit more affordable and certainly worth your time as a new Passyunk Avenue has launched, the first that's firmly in West

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• Test Driving Krokodilos - a Greek oasis in Kensington

  

  The same group behind recent openings like Pinna and Fantomas are back again with Greek restaurant Krokodilos. We went to Kensington to find out if they could continue their winning streak.

• The best restaurants in Kensington

  

  We've picked out the best restaurants in Kensington. From top Michelin-starred restaurants to glittzy fare from Big Mamma, here are the best places to eat out in the area.

• Krokodilos restaurant in Kensington promises to serve up amazing Greek food

  

  Do you know what's more stressful than opening a new restaurant in London just before Christmas? Opening two restaurants. But that's the delightful pickle that restaurateurs George Bukhov-Weinstein, Ilya Demichev and their business partner Elmira Amdiya find themselves in. One day after they throw open the doors to ...

• Friends of Ours are popping up for six months at the Serpentine Gallery

  

  They're responsible for serving up one of Shoreditch's most popular brunch menus. Now Friends of Ours are hoping to bring that same joy to West Londoners. This weekend they launch a six-month pop up brunch restaurant inside the Serpentine North Gallery's Zaha Hadid building.

  The new restaurant will take over from what used to be a Benugo, serving up the Friends of Ours brunch-with-a-twist dishes for a

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• Japan House is putting on Looks Delicious! a food replica exhibition

  

  If you've ever been to Japan and seen the superb food replica dishes they have in front of restaurants there, you'll know just how amazingly realistic they can be. Now Londoners are going to get a chance to see this kind of artistry up close in a new exhibition opening at Japan House in Kensington.

  Looks Delicious! features 47 specially commissioned food replicas, one from each of Japan's

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• La Palombe sees the Il Portico family switching to Pays Basque food in Kensington

  

  Updated 6/11/23 with chef info

  At their original restaurant Il Portico, they boast of being the oldest family-run restaurant in London. Now the family behind that are getting ready to unveil a new place that focuses on French Basque regional cuisine.

  La Palombe opens next week on the site of the ill-fated Pino, also by the same family, which only lasted a year. But while that was also

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• EVE Mediterranean-inspired restaurant, bar and café is coming to Kensington

  

  If you’re looking for a little late-summer Mediterranean escapism, we might have the culinary answer in the form of new restaurant EVE that is opening in Kensington. Think vegetables, grilled meats and seafood in an all-day dining concept. It's in Ember Locke, an aparthotel lifestyle complex (formerly the NH Kensington), that has a few locations around town like Leman Locke, (once home

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• Test Driving Jacuzzi - Big Mamma goes extra extra in Kensington

  

  The latest restaurant from Big Mamma has arrived in Kensington and we got in early for a preview. Here's what to expect from Jacuzzi.

• Test Driving The Holland - Kensington's lovely new neighbourhood pub

  

  Kensington locals' pub options just got more interesting with the arrival of The Holland. We went to check it out. 

• The Drop wine bar heads west to Kensington

  

  They already have wine bars on Drury Lane and in Clapham and now Drop Wine bar has just opened another - this time in Kensington.  

  The Drop (also a wine delivery app) comes from Ian Campbell and Will Palmer, who also happen to be the pair behind The Ten Cases and Parsons in Covent Garden. The Drops are all run independently, however, and this West London outpost is owned and

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