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Tucked-away off Notting Hill Gate, this rejuvenated grand chippy is “not what it was” in the old days, but a “reliable” option nonetheless; fans are “impressed” by its “appallingly cramped” Chelsea Green sibling (on the site of Tom’s Place, RIP) too, but others (with whom we tend to agree) find it “nothing to write home about”.
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Tel: 020 7727 7528
Web: www.geales.com

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Editor Reviews


  • Richard and Peter Harden (13th June 2007)

    The battered former appearance of the place (ho ho) has now been swept away, and it boasts décor in a whole sample-card of shades of grey. The impression this gives is undeniably chic, even if it ... more

Press Reviews (6)

  • The Times Giles Coren (22nd August 2007)
    Meat/fish: 3/10 points; Cooking: 3/10 points; Water: 10 (Belu); Score: 4.25; Price: That terrible meal for two was £80 for two courses before booze.

    Giles finally gets around to reviewing this Kensington chippy, which was given a fashionable new look a couple of months ago. He's not nearly as impressed as most reviewers were at the time; perhaps it was due to his waiter that was of “Bond-villain stature” (“Jaws”), or the “underdone” and “squelchy” lobster starter.
  • The Guardian Matthew Norman (17th July 2007)
    3/10 stars

    An odd and somewhat difficult-to-follow piece. As the critic says: “it isn't entirely a review at all, being as much a preview of what I suspect The Hole In The Wall is like on an average night as a report on a slightly disappointing meal” (sic). The meal he actually experienced was not thrilling, but he suspects that the involvement of Stephen Bull – the ex-London chef who allegedly “has a long and lustrous record for providing outstanding food at decent prices” – means it’s usually much better.
  • Evening Standard Magazine Mark Bolland (9th July 2007)

    Here’s a new critical index not previously explored. ES’s critic notices the number of chaps who have “gold signet rings on their little fingers”, at this new upmarket chippy. This place seems to pass the test: “you know that this will be a posh, ketchup-free zone”. He broadly likes the place. But then he also describes the same owners’ Embassy restaurant as “excellent”. Hmm.
  • The Independent on Sunday Tracey MacLeod (12th June 2007)
    Food 3/5 stars; Ambience 2/5 stars; Service 3/5 stars

    “Welcome to Geales, of Notting Hill. It's a chippy, Jim, but not as we know it.” “Somehow”, the critic concludes, the recent fashionable makeover “has taken away the heart of the place”. “What remains is perfectly fine, but feels ersatz in a way that The Ivy or J Sheekey never do.”
  • The Independent on Sunday Terry Durack (4th June 2007)
    14/20 points

    This particular critic doesn’t especially like fish and chips, but he likes this re-launch of the famous Kensington chippy. “Geales is now much nicer, more comfortable, much cleaner, much smarter, with more attention paid to the quality, freshness and sustainability of the core product”, he concluded, and “it smells better, too”.
  • Sunday Times AA Gill (4th June 2007)
    3/5 stars

    There seems to be a certain amount of critical navel-gazing going on at the moment, and Mr Gill considers the perennial “should-the-critic-visit-several-times” question. “All the colonically obsessive Miss Marple American ones go dozens of times in different costumes, trying to pretend that their review will be definitive. But a restaurant isn’t like a film, or even a play, for which a critique of one performance will be applicable to all performances. It’s more like a football match: it happens in the same place, with the same team, but the results are always different.” The cause of this introspection? Mr Gill ‘went back’ to Haiku – to which he awarded four stars for lunch a few weeks ago – and decided that at dinner it should only have one.
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