Notting Hill

A year on from opening her first bakery on Fulham Road, cake baker Reem Abu Samra is doubling up with a brand new store in Notting Hill. Announcing it on Instagram this week Reem said: "The rumours are true… and we are thrilled to finally announce the opening of our SECOND store this Winter 2026! There was no other choice for our SECOND home - Notting Hill, you asked and we answered! We cannot wait to welcome you with as much love and passion as we have in Chelsea."

And the good news for fans is that she tells us there will be space in the new Ledbury Road site for a little bit of

We love a busy roster and one chef who has a lot on her plate at the moment is Karla Knowles. The former head chef at Kiln is busy working on not one but two new restaurant openings over the coming months. To do that she's teamed up with Romain and Edouard Bourrillon who are behind the Maison Vivantes restaurant group and also own Cocotte and Casa Felicia.

They're starting with PAM in Farringdon. That's going to be Karla's first standalone restaurant. We don't know what's going to be on the menu there, but Karla's been running a series of collaborative supperclubs over the summer,

Nakimushi is the latest opening from the Dorian team; and it's a mix of ramen bar and Japanese restaurant. We went down to Notting Hill to see how the concepts are working together. 

Here's our pick of the best restaurants in the Notting Hill, an area which has grown into an excellent restaurant destination. 

Up until now, La Maritxu has had a bit of a monopoly as far as Basque-style cheesecakes go, but now a contender has entered the ring. Gaztela has just opened in Notting Hill and they have one version that you'll have to try. 

Gaztela comes from Inna and Ignacio, a Spanish-Ukrainian couple who met studying hospitality in Spain. It's all about Basque cheesecake, but they say theirs is a more modern take on the dessert, with an extra creamy, barely set centre, using their own blend of hard and soft cheeses. Having spent lots of time refining the recipe, they launched on

Notting Hill residents will probably have spotted a new opening in their neighbourhood. Jackie's Counter has been soft launching for the last few weeks, finding its feet on Kensington Church Street. It's the latest venture for Andy and Nati Perritt, the couple behind local pub The Mall Tavern.

They're describing it as a "neighbourhood luncheonette", and right now it's open during the day, kicking off mornings with cold brew slushies and breakfast bagels moving onto Reubens, salt beef sandwiches and tuna melts later on. For the sweet-toothed among you, they're doing homemade pies,

14/8/26 - updated with the opening date

London's food scene is having a bit of a thing for frozen yoghurt right now. We've already had the LA company Go Greek Yogurt opening up to huge queues on South Moulton Street. And now the next viral launch looks like it'll be Australia's Yo-Chi, in Notting Hill.

We'll admit, we'd never heard of it, but we could see fans on social media going completely crazy at the thought of being able to get this particular brand of fro yo

14/8/26 - updated with more details and the opening date.

They may have recently said goodbye to their head chef at Dorian, but the same team aren't slowing down. They're getting ready to open NAKIMUSHI, which is bringing together the chefs of two popular residencies, Urchin's Yuji Shimokawa Kelly and Robin Kosuge of Robin's Ramen. 

The pair are taking over all three floors of a townhouse near Notting Hill Gate. Inside, the two chefs will each be managing different space. So Robin Kosuge will be heading up the ground-floor ramen bar. On the

In his day job, chef Jamie Shears looks after the food at both The Audley Pub and Mount St Restaurant. Home in London is Ladbroke Grove; here are his favourite places to eat and drink close to home. 

Kinz is a Lebanese restaurant in Notting Hill that's opened as part of a stunning reinvention of an old bank. We went down to take it all in. 

Unless you're going out with Lewis Hamilton, used to be married to Brad Pitt or are an A-list model that once bathed in Champagne at a London hotel, you're unlikely to already be a member of one of the Estelle members clubs. But the good news is that over in Notting Hill at their newest club opening, you're actually now able to pop in and try the club restaurant.

Celeste is the main eatery at Estelle's latest opening which was unveiled on Ledbury Road in the spring, taking over the old Beach Blanket Babylon space. The restaurant is now open to the public. But if you want access to

It's all change for chef Victor Garvey, who's about to make his move to West London complete. Having opened MATER1A there at the beginning of the year, he's now moving his other restaurant, the Michelin-starred SOLA there too. SO|LA has been in Soho since its launch back in 2019, but now it's going to be taking over the site next door to MATER1A.

The move also means a pruning of seats. It was also a small restaurant, but now it's more than halving in size with space for just 12 diners. But what they're lacking in space they're gaining in wine, as we're told that the list here will

Five months ago, the French tapas spot Cépages quietly closed its doors in Notting Hill. Its founders decided they were leaving London to return to France to tend to their vineyard there (fair enough, really!). But what might have meant the permanent closure of this popular wine bar took an interesting turn when it was taken over by French chef, and MasterChef The Professionals finalist, Gaston Savina. He's now reopened it with a fresh new look and menu.

It's a neat closing of the circle for Gaston who first worked at the wine bar 12 years ago. "Cépages was one of the first

We went to expand our wine tastes with the eclectic Eastern European-focused list at new Notting Hill wine bar Sova.

After successfully making Julie's in Holland Park a big deal again, the same team are hoping to do the same with a Notting Hill pub.

The Prince Edward has been closed since February, and the Julie's team is planning to revamp it and relaunch it before the end of the year. The food will be again led by the Chef Patron of Julie's, Owen Kenworthy, but the menu will be quite different from the Holland Park restaurant. We're told to expect some elevated pub classics, seasonal pies, fish and chips, rotisserie chicken and more besides. They will, of course, have a Sunday