Ladurée are best known for their very pretty macaron shops, but their next opening is going to be something a little different - a café in Notting Hill.
The new concept is literally called Ladurée Café Concept, and while they'll have the same macarons and coffee that their previous shops have had, this will be a proper cafe. It's the second of these to open, following the first ...
Notting Hill's well-heeled residents will soon have another lovely new bakery on their doorstep. Birdmilk is the latest in a recent line of businesses that originated in Ukraine but have also opened in London like Boca a Boca and Piana Vyshnia.
The restaurateurs behind it are Dima Zakhodiakin and Alina Kosichkina who own 32 restaurants in Kyiv including bakery chain Khlebniy which this London opening is
...With restaurants in Spitalfields, Soho and Camden, fish and chips purveyors Poppies have headed west for the first time, opening on Portobello Road, Their new restaurant takes over what used to be a bank (and before that, a butchers) on the corner of Colville Terrace and Portobello.
Inside you'll find all the usual retro fittings you'll see in any Poppies but this one also incorporates the bank's old vault
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26/2/24 - updated with the opening date
Exciting news reaches us of the arrival of Hollywood actor Danny Trejo's very own restaurant, Trejo's Tacos, in London.
If you're thinking that you don't recognise the name - rest assured you've almost certainly seen him in one of his many, ...
The people behind La Mia Mamma, Italian restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill which got a big push by featuring on Stanley Tucci's "Searching for Italy", are getting ready to try something different with their next opening.
Opening next door to their Notting Hill restaurant, taking over what used to be the La Mia Mamma deli, is Fish & Bubbles. This
...The people behind Tandoor Chop House and Eggbreak are gearing up to open their next restaurant in Notting Hill with Hotel Dalhousie.
Just a restaurant and not a hotel, despite the name (it's named after the town in Northern India), Hotel Dalhouseie has taken over the old Chucs site on Westbourne Grove. There, they'll
...The new bar at Core by Clare Smyth not only features amazing cocktails but a snacks list with mini versions of the restaurant's signature dishes. We went down to try Whiskey & Seaweed.
If like us you covet the amazing crockery you see in London restaurants then the arrival of the new shop at Akub in Notting Hill will be of interest to you. They've just launched an online shop to help promote the Palestinian suppliers and makers whose products are used in the restaurant.
The launch collection comprises nine stoneware pieces by ceramist Nur Minawi that have been
...Pairing Japanese and Mexican influences, Juno is a six seater omakese restaurant in Notting Hill serving up an extraordinary food experience.
London's newest omakase experience is definitely coming with bragging rights. As there are only six seats at Juno in Notting Hill, simply managing to get a booking there is going to be an impressive feat.
The new counter dining 'experience' is opening on the first floor of Mexican/Japanese restaurant Los Mochis in Notting Hill. The restaurant's executive chef Leonard Tanyag (ex-Zuma) will be running the show alongside
...Neighbourhood restaurants in Notting Hill hit different as this already successful West London spin off from Chelsea's Wild Tavern shows.
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,
...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
...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
...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 ...