Notting Hill

• Poppies fish & chips have opened on Portobello Road

  

  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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• Hollywood's Danny Trejo is bringing his tacos to London

   

  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, ...

• Fish & Bubbles features seafood paninis from the La Mia Mamma team in Notting Hill

  

  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

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• Hotel Dalhousie sees the Tandoor Chop House team opening a new tandoor restaurant in Notting Hill

  

  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

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• Test Driving Whiskey & Seaweed - Core by Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-starred bar

  

  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. 

• Palestinian ceramics and wine go on sale at Akub in Notting Hill

  

  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

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• Test Driving Juno - a tiny omakase doing things differently in Notting Hill

  

  Pairing Japanese and Mexican influences, Juno is a six seater omakese restaurant in Notting Hill serving up an extraordinary food experience.

• Juno in Notting Hill will be London's smallest omakase restaurant with just six seats

  

  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

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• Test Driving Wild Notting Hill - crudo and A-listers on Westbourne Grove

  

  Neighbourhood restaurants in Notting Hill hit different as this already successful West London spin off from Chelsea's Wild Tavern shows. 

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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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