Notting Hill

• Popular Sydney brunch cafe The Rusty Rabbit is heading to Notting Hill

  

  Homesick Aussies will want to make a beeline for Notting Hill soon as popular Sydney cafe Rusty Rabbit is gearing up to open on Westbourne Grove.

  With two cafes in the Sydney suburbs of Darlinghurst and St Leonards, brothers Jamesray and Joshua Khoury have picked the posh central neighbourhood of Notting Hill for their first London opening.

  Billed as a Sydney brunch club, it serves up a

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• Test Driving Holy Carrot - inventive plant-based action in Notting Hill

  

  Holy Carrot used to be a supperclub but now it's become one of London's new breed of plant-based restaurants, with an Acme Fire Cult chef behind the menu. We went to see what he's cooking up.  

• Core by Clare Smyth

  Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Notting Hill

• Dorian

  Notting Hill bistro

• Holy Carrot is putting down roots in Notting Hill

  

  Holy Carrot has been getting a lot of love with a run of pop-ups and supperclubs over the past few years, and now it's going permanent in Notting Hill. 

  As the name suggests, it's a plant-based affair and for the restaurant, founder Irina Linovich has brought in Acme Fire Cult's Daniel Watkins to head up the menu as Executive Chef. Acme Fire Cult have always done pretty

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• Test Driving Fish & Bubbles - XXL seafood panini and platters in Notting Hill

  

  Gigantic portions, tasty seafood and a well priced menu make this new Notting Hill seafood spot a must-try.

• Ladurée Café Concept comes to Notting Hill

  

  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 ...

• Birdmilk sees Ukrainian restaurant duo opening a bakery in Notting Hill

  

  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

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• 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.