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- The Trailer Happiness team are opening Portobello 177 in Notting Hill
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
... - Ria's hit up Notting Hill with their Detroit-style pizzas and natural wine
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
... - 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
... - Wild Notting Hill is a Wild Tavern spin-off
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
... - 310 Portobello is The Pelican and Straker's Notting Hill summer pop-up
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
... - If you love oats you're going to love Oatis the oat cafe opening in Notting Hill
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
... - Empire Empire brings Indian food and disco to Notting Hill
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
... - Izakaya Nights launches at Supermarket of Dreams in Notting Hill
Over the past few years once shopping hours are over, the Supermarket of Dreams in Notting Hill has been turning itself into an irregular popup izakaya showcasing various chefs and their take on sushi. Now they're about to launch it as a permanent evening spot.
Izakaya Nights features a long communal table running the length of the shop. It has pretty much a dream team running it. The chefs are
... - Test Driving Akub - Fadi Kattan brings Palestinian food to Notting Hill
Top Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan has opened a restaurant in Notting Hill - we went down to check it out.
- TBC (The Butter Club) comes to Notting Hill from Amsterdam chefs famed for square croissants
If the abbreviation ‘TBC’ evokes feelings of frustration or even work stress, then we have a much better word association for you: The Butter Club. Because that’s what TBC stands for when it comes to the name of a new restaurant opening in Notting Hill.
The chefs behind TBC – Gabriël Verheij and Alexandre Scour – hail from Amsterdam and, while the friends are
... - Akub in Notting Hill will be top Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan's first London restaurant
5/1/23 - Updated with a new opening date
In Bethlehem, chef and hotelier Fadi Kattan's place of business is in a building that's more than 1000 years old. Here in London, the place he's chosen for his first UK restaurant is a mere 200 years old. The renowned French Palestinian chef is getting ready to open Akub in Notting Hill, where Malabar used to be.
Billed as a modern Palestinian restaurant,
... - Vori is hoping to transport Notting Hill residents with its Greek island cooking
Updated 6/1/23 with new opening date
Who among us doesn't fancy a change of scenery every now and then? Trader turned restaurateur Markos Tsimikali was feeling the same way. Having closed his original Greek restaurant, Hungry Donkey in Spitalfields this year, he decided to cross town for his new venture.
Vori, he's hoping, will transport Notting Hill residents to the tiny Greek beach it's
... - Creme's gooey cookies are now in Notting Hill
A cafe selling some of London's best cookies has recently opened somewhat under the radar in Notting Hill. Yes, there's a second Creme in London.
If you've ever wandered past the Soho outpost, you'll definitely have noticed the queues for their gooey cookies at peak times. The Notting Hill cafe looks a tiny bit larger than the Soho original and it'll still serve the same warm
... - Miznon is opening a pita 'kiosk' in Notting Hill
Just a few short months after opening his first branch of Miznon in London, Tel Aviv chef Eyal Shani is heading across town to work on a kiosk version of Miznon for West Londoners.
Described as a kiosk but with seating inside for 40 pita lovers and a decent sized terrace, the Notting Hill Miznon will serve all the London specials that Eyal debuted in Soho along with a new exclusive pita that he's currently working
... - Viajante87 brings Mexican-Japanese cocktails and wagyu sandos to Notting Hill
Agave cocktail fans will have a new reason to get excited about Notting Hill, with the news of Viajante87’s opening. It’s a cocktail bar from the founders of Los Mochis, who have not been shy with new launches lately. Heading up the innovative mixology lab (something we all wish we had at home) is
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