Notting Hill

• Kuro Bagels is taking over from Kuro Eatery in Notting Hill

  

  A few years back, the boutique group that is KURO in Notting Hill which has a coffee shop and bakery, opened its all-day diner called Kuro Eatery. It seemed a popular enough place, but clearly the duo behind it wanted more so they've closed it and are about to reopen it as a bagel shop. KURO Bagels is going to be serving "high-quality artisan bagels to-go", so it sounds more in the vein of nearby

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• Zima head to Notting Hill with their caviar and dumplings

  

  Almost a decade after launching their Russian street food restaurant in Soho, the team behind Zima have now opened a second restaurant, this time in Notting Hill. In December, they took over the old Buvette site on Blenheim Crescent and have kept the format of the restaurant pretty much the same, with counter dining at the front opening up to a bigger dining room at the rear.

  If you haven't made it to the original Soho spot

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• Jackson Boxer replaces Orasay with Dove

  

  There was quite the kerfuffle on Instagram when Jackson Boxer took to social to announce that his much-loved Notting Hill restaurant Orasay was going to close at the end of 2024. "There are a multitude of reasons for this," the chef and restaurateur said, "but the simplest one is that Orasay was never a very lucrative business. We specialised in working with a fragile and elusive product

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• 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.