SALUSBURY ROAD AREA

We have excellent restaurants, bistros and wine bars within easy walking distance plus first class Indian, Italian, Moroccan, Turkish and Tapas restaurants.

To the East on Salisbury Road (near Queens Park Underground Station) there are these restaurants and cafés:
• Trendy, good grub: Alice House (Trip Advisor)

• Deli, Pizzaria & Café The Salusbury
• Fish'n'chip Restaurant & take  away:
Mr Fish (Trip Advisor)
• Good classic Indian Restaurant: - Queen's Indian Restaurant (Trip Advisor)
• Good Gastro Bar The Salusbury Pub & Dining (Trip Advisor)

• Pugliese Italian Restaurant Ostuni Cucina (Trip Advisor)

• English and mostly organic  Hugos Restaurant (Trip Advisor)
• Pricey but very tasty café Gails Bakery & Café  (Yelp)
• All-day English breakfast, pizza and more: Jack's Bar & Brasserie

• All day café/resturant -good food and separate  lunch and dinner menus Bobs' Cafe  (Trip Advisor)

• Excellent, busy, popular and authentic tapas bar - all your favourites: Caldo Tapas Bar (Trip Advisor)

CHAMBERLAYNE ROAD - KENSAL RISE

On Chamberlayne Road and Kensal Rise there are more restaurants and pubs.

Traditional English pubs transformed into "gastro-pubs" (but they do serve good food):
• The Masons Arms  (Trip Advisor)

• The Island  (Trip Advisor)
• The Parlour  (Trip Advisor)

• The Whippet Inn (Trip Advisor)

• Frigideira (Brazilian) (Trip Advisor)

• William IV (pub & tapas)  (Trip Advisor)

Some good Indian Restaurants
• Bawarchi (Trip Advisor) 
• Curry Nights (Trip Advisor)
• Khas Tandoori (Trip Advisor) 
• Raj Balti (Trip Advisor)

Other good restaurants

• A lively Neopolitan Pizzaria The Sacro Cuore (Trip Advisor)

• A new Italian Restaurant Rullo's (Facebook)

• An Italian deli and café Minkies (Trip Advisor)
• Trendy bar/brasserie with mature 28 day hung Angus Scottish beef Chamberlayne (Trip Advisor)

• The piri-piri chicken chain Nando's

• A hearty, rustic Lebanese-Morroccon restaurant Comptoir Mezze (Trip Advisor) 

• Authentic and excellent value Turkish Meze & BBQ Shish Mangal  (Trip Advisor)

• A weird cocktail bar with nibbles The shop (Trip Advisor)

• Jerk chicken, or spiced oxtail?? Here's a West Indian Restaurant Island on the Rise (Trip Advisor)

But this one caps them all - a really, trendy fine-food pub with a Michelin trained chef and entertainment and queues: - MUST book: • Paradise by way of Kensal Rise  (Trip Advisor)



 The Ledbury (2 M stars) - Chef: Brett Graham
- The Ledbury Website - (Trip Advisor)

River Café - Maitre Chef Ruth: Rogers
- River Café Website - (Trip Advisor)

Kitchen W8 - Props: Phil Howard & Becky Mascarenhas
- KW8 Website - (Trip Advisor)

The Electric, Portobello Road opened in February 1911. The original building was completely restored at huge cost in 2001. Key to its relaunch were hi-tech features like the ingenious expanding wide-screen which comes through the original heritage protected proscenium arch. Seating was reduced to 98 leather armchairs keeping the tradition of two-seater sofas at the rear.
Alongside the cinema is the Electric Brasserie. This is real history and a joy to visit.

The Gate, Notting Hill Gate dates from 1865 and was completely restored in 1985, when the ornate Edwardian plasterwork was repaired. There were more upgrades in 2004 with air conditioning, velvet armchair seating and double "love seats". There’s a bar in the lobby selling wines which may be taken inside. We saw "Moulin Rouge" there - it was difficult to see where the cineam ended and the film began.

The Coronet, Notting Hill Gate opened in 1898. as one of the largest theatres outside the West End. Made famous when Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant filmed a scene there for the movie "Notting Hill". There are 3 tiers of seats - stall,  circle (recommended) and gallery. In need of much refurbishment this cinema still oozes eery old charm.
We saw "The Artist" there - perfect ambience for the 'silent' French movie.

The Lexi, Kensal Rise - The UK’s first social enterprise independent boutique digital cinema – that ticks quite a few boxes, eh? 100% of the profits go to to charity and it's staffed by passionate, local volunteers. It's a perefect little gem and has a wine bar open throughout, about 60 comfy seats and a few tables. It's only 10 minutes walk and we go there often.

Park. The 30 acre park in the heart of Queen's Park is owned and beautifully maintained by the wealthy corporation of the City of London. It boasts a 9 hole pitch-and-putt golf course, 1st class tennis courts, outdoor table tennis tables, a petanque piste, a splendid Victorian bandstand, a petting zoo, a café, a children's playground, a paddling pool (in summer), an adventure park, even a secluded quiet area with flower beds, shrubs and benches for the enjoyment of 'older folk'.

On a fine day it is an enormously popular space for picnics, sunbathing, jogging, kicking a ball about or chucking a frisbee.



Canals. A great but different way to see London. Take a walk along an old canal towpath. The nearest place from here is just along the way at the top end of Ladbroke Grove - a ten minute walk. Here there's a walk along the Grand Union Canal to "Little Venice" and on to The Regent's Canal which runs right through to Limehouse and the Thames, well away from the usual tourist hotspots. But you pass through Regent's Park, near by London Zoo and onto Camden Lock and further. On the way you'll see a different London, from multi-million pound villas to rundown council estates, from gasworks to hi-tech offices, from mosques to markets - all London life is here.
Various companies also offer barges 'cruises' along the canals, for example from 'Little Venice" near Warwick Avenue to Camden Lock. Try Jasons Canal Boat Trips

Bikes. That's Bojo Boris, ex Mayor of London, ex Foreign Secretary and now, amazingly still an outrageous MP on his bike. Those bikes were first called "Boris's Bikes". They're for hire all over London. They're red and sponsored by Santander and the Mayor is now Seddiq Khan.

You have to be careful cycling round London - it wasn't built with bikes in mind. But if you're an experienced urban cyclist it's a good way to get around town, but take care and remember to cycle on the LEFT and to be extra careful turning RIGHT.