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 43 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. Uli
Pan-Asian restaurant in Notting Hill
5 Ladbroke Road - W11
“It’s a surprise to find such an outstanding restaurant in such an unlikely place”, say fans of Michael Lim’s resurrected pan-Asian, nowadays on the more obscure fringes of Notting Hill (previously near the Portobello Road). With its “wonderful” Asian cuisine, fans feel “it’s just as good as it was in All Saints Road”, and even if ratings are still a tad off their historic highs, it’s widely seen as “a fab addition to W11’s culinary choices”.
2. The Ladbroke Arms
British, Modern restaurant in Notting Hill
54 Ladbroke Road - W11
“It has the feel of a pub”, but this posh hostelry at the Holland Park end of Ladbroke Grove is very genteel as boozers go. It’s a very consistent all-rounder, with “extremely friendly service” and “a weekly changing menu of fresh and reliable fare” that’s “affordable” too. “Fun, even when crowded”, its welcoming nature includes dog-owners and their pets.
3. Chucs Westbourne Grove
Italian restaurant in Notting Hill
226 Westbourne Grove - W11
“A chic take on Italian cooking” makes these in-store deluxe cafés – run by a luxury clotheswear brand of the same name – a popular option “for a quiet and unassuming” (but fairly loaded) Mayfair, Notting Hill and Chelsea clientele, who often choose it for business. The sceptical view is that it’s “perfectly nice, but why all the fuss – should they stick to frocks?” They must be doing something right though, with new branches this year in Harrods and – most notably – their takeover of Zaha Hadid’s magnificent restaurant space (formerly The Magazine, RIP) at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
4. The Ledbury
British, Modern restaurant in Notting Hill
127 Ledbury Rd - W11
“Phenomenal on all levels”; Brett Graham’s “unfailingly impressive” Notting Hill favourite only narrowly misses 5/5 in all categories and, for very many discerning foodies, this is “the best restaurant in London”, delivering food that’s “sheer artistry”: “original, brilliantly executed, and with a passion that shines through”. Notwithstanding an interior that’s “serene and upmarket, with comfortably spaced tables”, the overall effect is one of “relaxed confidence throughout” and “less formal than other top-level establishments”: and it’s “so refreshing for a venue of this calibre to have such fun, friendly staff”. “The free take-home compost is a nice touch.”
5. E&O
Pan-Asian restaurant in Notting Hill
14 Blenheim Cr - W11
“Still a great fusion restaurant”, Will Ricker’s pan-Asian tapas and cocktail hang-out in Notting Hill is “buzzing”, if no longer thronged with the celebs of yesteryear. “Dependably good food, happy service, silly prices, and always very silly Notting Hill hipsters vogue-ing at the bar!”
6. Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria
Italian restaurant in Notting Hill
7 Ladbroke Road - W11
“An excellent covered terrace for summer days and evenings” is a major plus point for this “fantastic and genuine local” just off Notting Hill Gate, whose “management really make the place buzz”. It serves a range of “good Italian food, especially seafood and great pizzas”.
7. Mazi
Greek restaurant in Notting Hill
12-14 Hillgate St - W8
“Imaginative deconstructed modern Greek cooking” brings locals back to this “cramped and always crowded” taverna in the backstreets of Hillgate Village, near Notting Hill Gate tube (whose small garden is open in summer). “Once you know your way around the menu the food is excellent and at a reasonable price – the uninitiated will find it expensive.” Top Tip: “fried feta and caper meringue should be a classic”.
8. The Shed
British, Modern restaurant in Notting Hill
122 Palace Gardens Ter - W8
“Unusual, intriguing and packed to the gunnels” – the Gladwin family’s quirky, rustic farm-to-fork outfit just off Notting Hill Gate – on a small site which old-timers still recall as The Ark (long RIP) – can be “noisy”, but the British seasonal tapas is “of good quality” and service is “good-humoured”.
9. Tonkotsu
Japanese restaurant in Notting Hill
7 Blenheim Cr - W11
“The broth is so incredibly thick and creamy, and this combined with the very generous servings make for a very good quick eat” at these cramped ramen pit-stops serving “noodles… more noodles… and some side dishes for those not wanting noodles”. “As it’s just a place for sustenance, you go with the flow, but staff are friendly and helpful”.
10. Patty and Bun
Burgers, etc restaurant in Notting Hill
14 Pembridge Rd - W11
“People waiting outside in the rain for a table speaks volumes” for this expanding chain (the latest branches are in TV Centre and Borough High Street), which “really fulfils the craving for a juicy, tasty burger” (and is the equal-highest rated in town in that department). Other elements of the formula are, however, “nothing fancy”. Top Menu Tip: “the Lambshank Redemption is unparalleled in the hugely contested world of burgers”.
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