Contemporary Fine Dining in Notting Hill at Caractère: A stone’s throw from The Ledbury, owners of Caractère, Emily Roux and Diego Ferrari say that they have aimed to create the kind of place where they’d like to eat themselves. Without a mouthful of food, I’m convinced that this comfortable warehouse style restaurant, with jewel-coloured velvet chairs […]
Uli Notting Hill- Review
Perfect Pan-Asian at Uli – Notting Hill: Pan-Asian restaurant Uli has been a Notting Hill staple since 1997. Originally located on the edgy All Saints Road it has recently moved to the more genteel environs of Ladbroke Road just around the corner from the shopping mecca of the Portobello Road as well as being handy for […]
Bucket Seafood Restaurant – Review
Sustainable Seafood at Bucket Notting Hill: I’m a seafood fanatic so when invited to review Bucket, a brand new sustainable seafood restaurant and bar in Notting Hill it would have been impossible to refuse. The Bucket team are also launching ‘Oyster Hour’, offering £1 oysters every day from 4-7pm on weekdays and 4-6pm on weekends with any bottle, jug, cocktail or bucket of beers and […]
A Walk on the Wild Side at UKAI Notting Hill
UKAI Japanese Gastropub in Notting Hill: Walking from Notting Hill Gate to the wrong end of the Portobello Road is something of a lesson in sociology. While The Gate itself is a little scruffy, just a few minutes away, the swanky stucco fronted buildings of the area around Pembridge Crescent and Kensington Park Road are […]
The Shed, Notting Hill
The Shed Restaurant Notting Hill Walk into this ‘Shed’ just a few minutes from Notting Hill tube and find a cosy restaurant with an apparently haphazard arrangement of bar and tables spread across two rooms. Our host for the evening, the charming Richard Gladwin, ushered us to what I suspect must be the best spot […]
A Taste of Denmark at Snaps + Rye
Snaps + Rye – Danish Smorgasbord in Notting Hill: I have long wanted to visit Copenhagen, so I was rather pleased to be invited along to the contemporary Danish restaurant Snaps + Rye on the Golborne Road in West London to try my hand at making a Smørrebrød (or Smorgasbord as the English would say) […]
The Eagle Pub in Notting Hill – Review
The Eagle has landed… So many pubs have disappeared from our cities, towns and villages that being asked to review a new pub in Ladbroke Grove feels like a rare treat. I was on a Notting Hill staycation at the glamorous The Portobello Hotel so I trotted down the Grove for some dinner to The […]
Zayane – Review
Zayane Moroccan Fusion in Ladbroke Grove: Portobello Road’s upstart little brother Golborne Road seems to be turning itself into a food destination. In the last few months I have reviewed charcoal grill specialist John Doe (see my review) and ‘US-accented British fare’ specialist West Thirty Six. At the Ladbroke Grove end of the road away from the North […]
Chakra – Fine Dining in Notting Hill
Stepping out in Notting Hill: It’s funny how us Londoners tend to stick to our own patch of town which is familiar and we only venture further north or south if one of our friends dares to suggest that we “try somewhere new”! That’s why I enjoy doing these reviews because it does take me […]