Notting Hill

• My Manor - Amy Poon's local guide to Notting Hill

  

  Poon's London owner Amy Poon was brought up in the restaurant world, as the daughter of well known chef Bill Poon and is about to open her first store in Bermondsey. A resident of Notting Hill, she’s sharing her favourite local spots with Hot Dinners readers. 

• Canteen is the latest Notting Hill restaurant from the Pelican team

  

  Very under the radar, the team who brought us The Pelican and The Hero have just opened a brand new restaurant in Notting Hill. Canteen is an Italian restaurant that's taken over the same space where they held a pop-up last summer on Portobello Road.

  A quick look at the launch menu shows that

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• Moi et Toi is a London meets Paris bakery opening up in Notting Hill's Empire Empire

  

  Now this is a clever idea. If your restaurant is more of a dinner place but you want to make the space pay for itself during the day, then why not team up with a cafe/bakery? That's what Empire Empire's owner Harneet Baweja is about to do. But the restaurateur hasn't chosen just any old bakery to team up with, he's joining forces with Edward Delling Williams, founder of super hip Parisian bistro Le Grand Bain and bakery Le

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• Phil Howard brings in big-name chefs for a series of Elystan Street dinners

  

  You may have come across the expression "four hands" dinner before. Essentially it's a rather cheffy way of talking about a team-up between two chefs. That's exactly what Phil Howard is planning at Elystan Street over the next few months, and it's the first time he's done this in his own kitchen. 

  He's teaming up with five big names for special six-course menus,

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• The Barbary is opening in Notting Hill

  

  22/8/24 - updated with the opening date

  When they last opened a new restaurant, The Barbary team just went next door, but for their third opening, they're heading across town to Notting Hill. 

  Opening on Westbourne Grove (taking over what was Maddox Gallery), the

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• It's Bagels are opening in Notting Hill

  

  Updated 13/8/24 with the new opening date

  A few weeks back, super viral bagel bakery It's Bagels put a post up on Instagram looking for staff. "We are expanding," they said. Thanks to a Hot Dinners reader, we discovered that they were coming to Notting Hill. Since then we've found out more about what this new location is bringing. 

  They've picked the site that used to belong to Rika Moon on

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• 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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