Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in London West Kensington
Hardens guides have spent 31 years compiling reviews of the best West Kensington restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 12 restaurants in West Kensington and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing West Kensington restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured West Kensington Restaurants
1. Apadana Restaurant
Persian restaurant in Kensington and Chelsea
351 Kensington High Street - W8
Apadana Restaurant is a 5 Star Award-winning chic restaurant that uses family-kept recipes to craft authentic, sumptuous Iranian classic dishes in the heart of London's trendy Kensington high street.Indulge your senses in our family kept recipes passed on for generation...
2. Romulo Café
Filipino restaurant in Kensington
343 Kensington High Street - W8
“Personal service from a family-owned business” adds to the appeal of this Kensington fixture (owned by the grandchildren of a famous general), whose menu offers a good introduction to Filipino cuisine.
3. Best Mangal
Turkish restaurant in Olympia
66 North End Rd - W14
This pair of “genuine Turkish” grills in Fulham “faithfully reproduce the correct flavours, smells and textures” required by kebab-lovers. Their “great shish kebabs are full of flavour, served beautifully with an accompaniment of rice and salad” – “always reliable for a delicious dinner”. (Note, there is also a business called “1996 Best Mangal” at 66 North End Road – similar, but not reviewed here).
4. Best Mangal
Turkish restaurant in Olympia
104 North End Rd - W14
This pair of “genuine Turkish” grills in Fulham “faithfully reproduce the correct flavours, smells and textures” required by kebab-lovers. Their “great shish kebabs are full of flavour, served beautifully with an accompaniment of rice and salad” – “always reliable for a delicious dinner”. (Note, there is also a business called “1996 Best Mangal” at 66 North End Road – similar, but not reviewed here).
5. Cumberland Arms
Mediterranean restaurant in Olympia
29 North End Rd - W14
2021 Review: “Just around the corner from Olympia”, it’s worth knowing about this well-rated pub, in the not-particularly-auspicious northerly reaches of the North End Road. In the same stable as Earl’s Court’s excellent Atlas, it delivers “a very enjoyable meal, with a good quality menu and a lovely atmosphere”.
6. Melody at St Paul's
International restaurant in Hammersmith and Fulham
153 Hammersmith Road - W14
2018 Review: Limited but positive feedback (as a business destination) for this calm, very grandly situated dining room – part of a hotel set in a grand Gothic Victorian building at the south end of Brook Green that formed part of the original St Paul’s Boys’ School.
7. Hare & Tortoise
Pan-Asian restaurant in Olympia
373 Kensington High St - W14
These pan-Asian pitstops can knock up anything from “reliable Japanese” dishes to “amazing curry laksa” with great speed and efficiency. Launched in Bloomsbury, the chain has expanded slowly over 25 years and now has branches in Ealing, Putney, Kensington and Chiswick.
8. The Colton Arms
British, Modern restaurant in West Kensington
187 Greyhound Road - W14
2021 Review: Backing onto the rear of Queen’s Club in Baron’s Court (and with a cute small garden for sunny days) – “a good, standby local pub” given a very stylish revamp a couple of years ago, and serving “a decent array of dishes”. “The ambience varies a bit depending on where you are sat in the dining room”.
9. Karma
Indian restaurant in Olympia
44 Blythe Rd - W14
2018 Review: “Never-failing” curries at this Indian local, tucked away behind Olympia, help it consistently exceed expectations; less so the atmosphere, which more rarely takes flight.
10. Chez Abir
Lebanese restaurant in Olympia
34 Blythe Rd - W14
2019 Review: Small Lebanese café lost in the backstreets immediately behind Olympia. Known mainly to a faithful local crowd since the days of its redoubtable but endearingly chaotic former owner, “it maintains the standards set by Marcelle: the big difference is in the improved reliability of the service!”
11. 222 Veggie Vegan
Vegan restaurant in
222 North End Rd - W14
If you’ve ever been stuck in a traffic jam near the gyratory on the North End Road, you may have noticed this small, long-standing vegan and vegetarian café. It doesn’t inspire a huge volume of feedback, but such as there is still says it’s a “good” choice for an “original” meal.
12. Maria G's
Italian restaurant in Kensington
Coe House, 1-4 Warwick Lane - W14
A new neighbourhood Italian from Robin Gill, opening in June 2022.
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