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Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in London Notting Hill

Hardens guides have spent 25 years compiling reviews of the best Notting Hill restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 47 restaurants in Notting Hill and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Notting Hill restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.

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1. Marianne British, Modern restaurant in Notting Hill 104 Chepstow Rd - W2

“Marianne Lumb nails it, spot on, time and time again” at her “very special, petite restaurant” (just 14 covers) in Bayswater. La patronne herself “is not only a brilliant chef, but also a charming and welcoming host” and the “tiny but lovely” set-up is “perfect for a romantic evening” (if “without a lot of buzz”). “The set menu is chosen with good taste rather than extravagance, and the cooking is peerless perfection” (“it is rare that a tasting menu is all hits but this place manages it”). Finally, “the wine list is a real draw too – a terrific selection at prices that are actually affordable”.

Price £128

Food Exceptional

Service Very Good

Ambience Very Good

2. The Ladbroke Arms British, Modern restaurant in Notting Hill 54 Ladbroke Road - W11

This attractive and atmospheric “gourmet pub”, at the Holland Park end of Ladbroke Grove, “definitely requires a reservation, especially on weekends”, but it’s “worth the aggravation” for the “delicious food” and “great local beer”. Top Tip – “the real draw is the terrace on a nice day”.

Price £53

Food Good

Service Good

Ambience Good

3. Chucs Westbourne Grove Italian restaurant in Notting Hill 226 Westbourne Grove - W11

Owned by an Italian luxury brand of ‘resort’ wear, these “cozy and calm” cafés adjoining shops in Mayfair and Chelsea aim to inspire the yachtie life of the Riviera in the 1960s. There’s “excellent service and solid food”, although some reporters favour breakfast over lunch.

Price £82

Food Good

Service Good

Ambience Good

4. The Ledbury British, Modern restaurant in Notting Hill 127 Ledbury Rd - W11

“Wow! I didn’t think this place could possibly live up to the hype, but it did… and easily!” Brett Graham’s “sophisticated” Notting Hill HQ delivers a pitch-perfect performance and again topped the survey’s nominations for offering London’s best meal of the year. But for all his “stunningly well-crafted” cuisine (“so many dishes that were so memorable”) and “perfectly matched wines”, it’s the “unpretentious, customer-first attitude that makes a meal here that much more enjoyable”: “everyone’s relaxed and having a great time!”

Price £142

Food Exceptional

Service Exceptional

Ambience Very Good

5. 108 Garage British, Modern restaurant in Notting Hill 108 Golborne Rd - W10

Just about “the hottest newcomer of the year”: “chef Chris Denny is truly talented, and a name to remember!”. This “wacky, noisy and stimulating”, “NYC-vibe” debutante is a “laid-back”, cooly grungy garage-conversion, on “one of West London’s most interesting streets” (at the top end of Portobello Market). The food is “to die for” – “light but satisfying cooking with brilliant use of herbs and greens”. It’s just “a pity you can’t get in any more”. (In September 2017, they are set to open a second venture nearby: Southam Street.)

Price £60

Food Exceptional

Service Very Good

Ambience Exceptional

6. The Shed British, Modern restaurant in Notting Hill 122 Palace Gardens Ter - W8

“Bonkers, quirky but delicious” – the Gladwin family’s “oddball” farm-to-table venture in Notting Hill has won many converts to its seasonal British small plates, aided by its “charming” staff and “attractive” (if “slightly uncomfortable”) rustic-style interior.

Price £55

Food Very Good

Service Very Good

Ambience Very Good

7. Zayane Moroccan restaurant in Notting Hill 91 Golborne Road - W10

2017 Review: A modern North African restaurant, in the northerly reaches of Portobello. Heading up the kitchen is Chris Bower (ex-head chef of Tunbridge Wells’s lovely Thackeray’s) – one or two early reports hail his “terrific European-influenced Moroccan cooking”.

Price £46

Food Very Good

Service Very Good

Ambience Very Good

8. Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria Italian restaurant in Notting Hill 7 Ladbroke Road - W11

“Very friendly, and full of Italians” – this “good value” neighbourhood spot with an outside terrace, just off Notting Hill Gate, remains “on good form”, serving more than just pizza and pasta. “A favourite with families”, it can be “very noisy”.

Price £52

Food Good

Service Very Good

Ambience Very Good

9. Taqueria Mexican/TexMex restaurant in Notting Hill 141-145 Westbourne Grove - W11

“Really fresh food with a genuine Mexican taste” ensures a packed crowd at this “friendly” cantina on the Notting Hill/Bayswater border. The menu is dominated by tacos, cocktails and beer.

Price £40

Food Very Good

Service Very Good

Ambience Good

10. The New Angel International restaurant in Notting Hill 39 Chepstow Pl - W2

2015 Review: TV chef John Burton-Race’s Bayswater newcomer pleases early-days reporters, as it did us, with its “elegant” decor – in a bourgeois style you don’t often see in London nowadays – and its “surprisingly generous” modern European cooking.

Price £82

Food Very Good

Service Very Good

Ambience Good