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 48 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”.
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”.
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.
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!”
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.)
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.
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”.
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”.
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.
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.
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