Venues in Notting Hill
Notting Hill entertains at the domestic scale — townhouse dining rooms, garden restaurants and two three-star kitchens, in a neighbourhood that prefers not to announce itself.
Caractère
Notting Hill — French Restaurant
Up to 62 guests
Emily Roux and Diego Ferrari's MICHELIN-starred Notting Hill dining room, its single Franco-Italian space available for exclusive hire.
Straker's
Notting Hill — Modern British Restaurant
Up to 50 guests
Thomas Straker's forty-cover room on Golborne Road, with a private dining house next door and a small bar beneath it for the hours after dinner.
Kinz
Notting Hill — Lebanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 130 guests
An all-day Lebanese brasserie in a converted 1930s Notting Hill bank, its triple-height dining room lit by a wine-red lantern and its old vault turned wine room.
Sumi
Notting Hill — Japanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 60 guests
Endo Kazutoshi's understated Notting Hill sushi and robata restaurant, with an open kitchen, a Westbourne Grove terrace and a full-restaurant buyout for private events.
Zephyr
Notting Hill — Greek Restaurant
A modern Greek restaurant from the Pachamama Group on Portobello Road, with sculptural lighting, a communal table for groups, and private hire by email.
Core by Clare Smyth
Notting Hill — Modern British Restaurant
Clare Smyth's three-MICHELIN-star Notting Hill dining room, with a chef's table at the kitchen glass and a dark whisky bar behind it.
Mazi
Notting Hill — Greek Restaurant
Notting Hill's long-loved modern Greek, famous for its blue-and-white walled garden of olive and fig trees. Available for full private hire and celebrations.
Julie's
Notting Hill — French Restaurant & Bar
Up to 160 guests
On the same Portland Road corner since 1969, back as a French brasserie. Private hire runs from a twenty-seat dining room to a lower ground floor with its own bar and sound system.
The Ledbury
Notting Hill — Modern British Restaurant
Up to 45 guests
Brett Graham's three-MICHELIN-starred dining room in Notting Hill, rebuilt by These White Walls and taken privately as a whole-restaurant hire for 45.
Electric House
Notting Hill — Members' Club
Up to 150 guests
Soho House's Notting Hill club above the 1910 Electric Cinema: a brass-vaulted House floor, a panelled Library, a roof garden, and an 83-seat screening room anyone can hire.
Sunday in Brooklyn Notting Hill
Notting Hill — American Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
The Williamsburg brunch room's first site outside New York, on a Notting Hill corner. Two floors, two private bars, 200 standing across a full buyout.
The Method
Notting Hill — Wellness Club
The Method's Westbourne Grove flagship: three studios, a recovery floor, a members' lounge built for events, and an outpost of Nathalie on the ground floor.
/ About Notting Hill▾
Notting Hill was laid out on the Ladbroke Estate from the 1820s, when the landowner and his architect Thomas Allason set aside the rigid grid then usual and planned oval crescents, curved streets and generous garden squares. The pattern survives intact: behind the tall stucco terraces of the crescents lie large communal gardens, private to the surrounding houses, still one of the area's quiet distinctions. The district's long arc from bohemian to established has left a mix of grand terrace and painted mews that reads as informal wealth.
Its gathering spaces run from street market to screening room. Portobello Road holds one of London's largest antiques markets, trading in earnest as such since the 1950s, and the surrounding streets carry galleries, showrooms and townhouses. The Electric Cinema on Portobello Road, opened in February 1910, is among Britain's oldest working cinemas and a Grade II* listed building — a reminder that the area was early to the moving image. Converted warehouses, corner pubs and garden-square houses fill out the range of rooms available for private use.
Westbourne Grove anchors the dining and retail, its western end lined with restaurants and independent shops, while Ledbury Road and the streets around it draw a steady creative crowd. The pastel terraces and communal gardens give the residential streets a rare pocket of calm only minutes from the market's Saturday crowds. Since 1966 the area has hosted the Notting Hill Carnival, the Caribbean street celebration held each August across these same streets. Notting Hill Gate station carries the Central, Circle and District lines, with Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines serving the northern end of the market.