5 Points out of 5
Very nice restaurant, a bit hidden away from busy road, loved the food. Would recommend it, good value for money too and really liked the tapas style meal.
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5 Points out of 5
I went there a few weeks before for a friend’s bday. Personnaly, I really enjoyed it. I had heard about the venue and its space (ceiling=the Westway) but had never experienced it as I’m more used to go out in East London.
When the place packed up, it turned into an amazing party, people dancing everywhere around sofas, at the bar, on the dancefloor. We were a group for a bday.
Music from House, Deeps house to chart pop bootlegs etc… Liked the mix.
The place also hosts nights with big djs where the opace is all dressed up in drapes, lights, projections. I might come West sometimes now::
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5 Points out of 5
Great place. Authentic Spanish food and a great selection of foods, meats, drinks, etc. Garcias has been in Portobello Rd for as many years as I can remember and it is still going strong. There is now a cafe/restaurant next door which Ive been to a couple of times and Ive been happy with the service and food/drinks. I don’t visit every week as I don’t live in the area any more but I do like to pop in when I’m in the vicinity.
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4 Points out of 5
What an amazing cinema. Cocktails, brownies and somewhere to put your feet up. Yes not the biggest screen but still an excellent venue for those who like to have a cheeky cocktail while watching a film.
I you are in Notting Hill I would definitely recommend you go! There is a nice restaurant below although I haven’t been – but whenever I have been past it is always bustling and busy
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3 Points out of 5
I’ve been here a few times and yesterday was the latest time. I like their food and the chorizo sandwich in particular. I ordered it, ate and enjoyed it. Job well done!
My only gripe is the customer service or lack of it. The person that took my order hardly made eye contact as he was too interested in the action taking place in Portobello Road. When someone hands you your change and doesn’t even look I just think its disrespectful. Really! Customer service isn’t hard but I guess it is but when you haven’t got a clue. Good food, customer experience needs to improve.
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1 Points out of 5
Spurred on by the positive reviews, my wife and I went to La Sophia recently for my birthday. We’re not regulars at restaurants these days (young kids) but certainly know and appreciate good food and wine when we come across it and unfortunately if La Sophia were serving any, it wasn’t to us. The menu was full of promise and we excitedly ordered a steak tartare with truffle, a walnut and roquefort salad, followed by a couple of ostrich and morel sauce main courses. None of the dishes tasted like they had been near a salt and pepper mill. The tartare certainly had truffle oil in it but not a trace of actual truffle that I could see. Taste-wise it was as flat as a very dull pancake. No capers or anything at all to lift it and excite the palette (parsley, lemon, etc). The pinnacle of disaster for this dish was finding inedible sinew in the pattie. Disgusting. My wife’s salad was dry, small, and over-whelmingly bitter except for the small cheese bits.
OK, so the ostrich. Both plates were over-cooked, dry and largely tasteless. The morel sauce should have been amazing but were it not for the bits of morel floating around in it, I’d be hard pressed to believe it had ever been exposed to one. I certainly couldn’t taste it, even when eating the morel pieces. It tasted of watery meat juices, under seasonsed, with a very little bit of cream thrown in. An ostrich burger from Borough market, at a tiny fraction of the £28 price tage of these sorry plates, tastes a thousand times more flavourful. What on earth had they done to these poor birds?
My wife finished with a warm chocolate tart. It was a dry piece of cake, warmed through. She was very unimpressed. I had a very expensive cheese plate which had a lump of cheddar, which tasted like Sainsbury’s premium packaged stuff, a piece of Stilton, ditto, and something which I suspect was supposed to be Brie – hard to tell because although ripe, it lacked any real depth of flavour – rather like supermarket pap.
The service was OK. The chatty waiter, who was nice enough, seemed to think I was French (was he hitting on me?) and almost forgot to tell us about the specials. When he did, he didn’t mention the pricing.
How can this place have so many rave reviews? Seriously? A totally average French town/village resturant would blow this place totally away. It’s not even up to fairly average dinner party fare. I can only think that they have lots of friends writing reviews, that we were deeply unlucky that day or that our standards are light years ahead of most other people’s (which seems v unlikely). We did notice that many other diners there, most in their 20′s, were there because of the reviews (the waiter asks everyone where they heard about the place).
In short, we were extremely disappointed and thought it massively over priced. Our dinner for two, with a lowly wine, came to over £130 (service included). We will certainly never be going back.
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5 Points out of 5
Great gastropub in Notting Holl with really good Asian food. Moderate prices for this area. There are three tables outside, which is great when you stop by in the afternoon in spring and summertime. Just 5 minutes from Portobello Road, so it’s a great place to go to when you’re nearby to have a pint of beer and some good food (nothing fancy). Pretty crowded in the evenings, but a very relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
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5 Points out of 5
Beautiful selection of the most colourful and imaginative glassware I have ever seen. The colours are truly something. Only popped in to “browse” but I was completely blown away with the owner’s displays. Yes, I did make 3 (smallish) purchases of items that I had previously been trailing the high street and surfing the web for for something special and completely different. You must vist this shop to really appreciate the colours and designs. Very helpful and friendly service too!
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5 Points out of 5
wow!what an oasis,the very second you walk up to the medspa rooms your mind willbegin to feel completly relaxed!the decor in lime green is just amazing.it has a very calming and a professional look to it.as for the treatments i had a classic massage which was really well done by their therapist called hazel.the price was competative and i will definatley go back again very soon.thanks medspa!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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4 Points out of 5
The unusual looking shop front has had many different owners over the past, including home interiors and fashion boutiques. It has now joined the growing number of eateries in Kensington Park Road. Caffe Respiro popped up a little while ago and I finally got a chance to test their claim of making the best coffee in Notting Hill. It is certainly good coffee, and quite possibly the strongest in the area.
I went for a quick breakfast and just had a croissant. The menu sounded promising though, and it is nice to be surrounded by lovely Italian delicatessen – I was very tempted to pick up one of their beautiful biscuit tins.
The cafe takes is name from the Italian film of the same name; the walls are adorned with movie posters and memorabilia, adding to its charme.
A nice addition to the area, and I would always choose this over the chains which have been creeping up around Portobello.
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