These delicious dishes are served in a casual setting that errs on the rustic. The seafood manti dumplings come with a puddle of saffron kakavia (a Greek fish stew) and are topped with bottarga powder, while the doughnut-like loukoumades pudding is doused in lavender honey and sprinkled with crushed walnuts. The menu is an imaginative spin on authentic Greek food, elevating national classics for a spoilt modern palate. The Greek salad comes with crisp barley rusks and delicate crumbs of creamy feta. Moussaka may not have made it onto the menu at Mazi, Notting Hill’s favourite Greek haunt, but lamb certainly has – as a shredded shoulder fricassee with lemony avgolemono sauce. Greek food in London often translates as suspect tzatziki, chunky feta cubes weighing down a sore betrayal of the nation’s signature salad and taverna-style moussaka, sometimes good, sometimes not. With such top-notch cooking, it’s obvious that hospitality runs in the DNA of this restaurant’s power-couple owners.Īddress: Caractère, 209 Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill, London W11 1EA Telephone: +44 20 8181 3850 Website: The cooking here is adventurous but fuss-free a deceptively simple dish of cacio e pepe is the star starter, while other hits include flaky Cornish cod, a blushing-pink saddle of lamb and ravioli stuffed with pulled pork and peas, finished with a light lemony broth. The Franco-Italian menu riffs on the couple's roots, dividing dishes into six short sections: curious (meaty starters), subtle (vegetable-led small plates), delicate (fish), robust (meat), strong (cheese) and greedy (pudding), while for the indecisive, there’s a clever a pick and mix-style tasting menu.
There’s a formidable team at the helm of Caractère Michel Roux Jr’s daughter Emily runs front of house, while her husband Diego Ferrari – the ex-head chef of Le Gavroche – leads the kitchen. The very best seats are around the chef’s table, right under the nose of the glass-fronted kitchen, but if you haven’t managed to snag a table several months ahead, you can eat in the bar too, where a few seats are kept back for walk-ins.Īddress: Core by Clare Smyth, 92 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill, London W11 2PN Telephone: +44 2 Website: Highlights include a humble potato dish, inspired by Clare’s childhood on the Northern Irish coast and elevated with herring and trout roe and topped with a rich seaweed beurre blanc carrot, braised lamb and sheep’s milk yoghurt and a superb pear and verbena pudding with poire William sorbet. Order the five- or seven-course tasting menu while the core ingredients may seem simple and familiar, the reality is anything but. This is fine dining redone there are no tablecloths, menus are presented on a piece of folded card, and U2 drifts out of the speakers.
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Read our full review of Orasay here.Īddress: Orasay, 31 Kensington Park Road, London W11 2EU Telephone: +44 20 7043 1400 Website: orasay.londonĬlare Smyth, the first and only British female chef to win three Michelin stars, opened her first solo restaurant back in 2017.
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Mercifully free of gimmicks and fads, this is a proper, grown-up neighbourhood restaurant. The two chefs co-own an organic farm in West Sussex, so vegetables take pride of place too there are colourful plates of roast cauliflower and datterini tomatoes, or burrata and grilled peaches drizzled with the boys’ very own burnt honey. It’s inspired by the tiny Outer Hebridean island where Boxer spent his childhood holidays, and there’s a sense of Hebridean tranquility to the space, with its simple short menu listing things like gorgeously textured Isle of Mull scallops, tiny clams from Barra, beef and tuna tartare and a huge shorthorn rib for two to share. Over on the quieter side of Notting Hill, Jackson Boxer – one of the duo, with Andrew Clarke, originally behind Vauxhall’s Brunswick House and Shoreditch’s St Leonards – has just opened his newest venture.
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