Dishoom opened a Permit Room on Portobello Road last summer and quietly became the best breakfast in W11. The Electric Diner is gone, replaced by a Thai bar that does not do brunch. Kuro is now a bagel shop. Here are the nineteen worth the walk, with the ones that only take walk-ins flagged, because that is what ruins most Notting Hill mornings.
Notting Hill does brunch better than almost anywhere in London, which is partly the money and partly the fact that the whole area is built for wandering between things. The problem is that a lot of it does not take bookings, and the queue outside Granger and Co at eleven on a Saturday is its own small tourist attraction.
So this is organised around that. Where you can book, where you cannot, and where the good half of the menu actually is.
Eggbreak on Uxbridge Street also makes our citywide list of the best breakfasts in London.
Quick answers
Where should I go if I only do one? Dishoom’s Permit Room on Portobello Road. Breakfast until 11.45am daily, bookings up to four months out, and the bacon naan roll is worth the walk on its own.
Where can I actually get a table? Dishoom, Los Mochis, Conscience Kitchen, The Tin Shed and Daylesford all take bookings. Granger, Lowry & Baker, Farm Girl, Eggslut, Gail’s and Ottolenghi are walk-in only.
What is the best value? Kuro Bagels on Hillgate Street, around £8 to £12 for a built-to-order bagel, in a postcode where £18 for eggs is normal.
What has closed? The Electric Diner, replaced by Speedboat Bar in July 2025. Kuro Eatery became Kuro Bagels in January 2025.
How early do I need to be? Before nine on a Saturday for anything walk-in on Portobello, or after two, when the queue collapses and half these kitchens are still serving.
Book these
Dishoom Permit Room
Dishoom’s smaller format arrived on Portobello Road in June 2025 and it does the full Bombay breakfast: the bacon naan roll, eggs Kejriwal on chilli-cheese toast, akuri on bun maska, and bottomless chai that is included rather than upsold.
Order the bacon naan roll and a chai, and book rather than queueing. They take reservations up to four months ahead and still hold a generous number of walk-in tables, which is the opposite of most of this list. Breakfast runs to 11.45am every day, and it stops dead at that.
Where: 186 Portobello Road, W11 1LA. Breakfast daily to 11.45am. Around £6 to £12.
Los Mochis
Mexican-Japanese cooking on Farmer Street, and the weekend breakfast menu is the half of it nobody talks about: chilaquiles, a sope benedict, and sushi alongside because of course.
It is weekends only from 9.30am, and you need to book. Go for the chilaquiles rather than the benedict, and take a seat at the counter if there are two of you, which is where the kitchen is actually working.
Where: 2-4 Farmer Street, W8 7SN. Saturday and Sunday from 9.30am. Mains around £16 to £22.
Conscience Kitchen
An Egyptian-inflected all-day kitchen on All Saints Road, baking its own bread and doing the sort of brunch that does not feel like the same six dishes you had last weekend.
Check the days before you walk over: it is closed Mondays and Tuesdays, which catches people who have wandered up from Portobello. Book online, sit at the front, and order whatever is on the bread board.
Where: 23 All Saints Road, W11 1HE. Wednesday to Sunday from 8.30am. Under £30 a head.
The Tin Shed
A neighbourhood room on All Saints Road doing an unfussy full English and a rarebit that has a following, with a proper dinner service in the evening.
Order the Shed Rarebit rather than the full English. It is the dish the kitchen is known for and the sausages, while good, are the thing everyone orders instead. Ring ahead at weekends, though they do take walk-ins.
Where: 33 All Saints Road, W11 1HE. Daily from around 9am. £15 to £20.
Daylesford Organic
The Gloucestershire farm’s Westbourne Grove outpost, with a farmshop at the front and a cafe behind it. It is expensive and it is also the most reliable weekday breakfast in the area.
Come on a weekday morning rather than a weekend. The room is calm, you can book, and the same food that involves a wait on Saturday arrives in ten minutes on a Tuesday. Last orders are half an hour before close, which people miss.
Where: 208-212 Westbourne Grove, W11 2RH. Monday to Saturday from 8am, Sunday from 9am. £15 to £20.
The Laslett
The bar and kitchen inside the Laslett hotel on Pembridge Gardens, open to non-residents and considerably quieter than anything on Portobello because most people do not realise they can walk in.
This is the one to book when everywhere else has a queue. Breakfast runs from 7am on weekdays, tables are held for fifteen minutes, and groups of eight or more need to call. We reviewed the hotel itself in our stay at The Laslett.
Where: 8 Pembridge Gardens, W2 4DU. Monday to Friday 7am to 11am, weekends from 7.30am.
Walk-in only, so time it right
Granger & Co
Bill Granger’s first London site and the room that taught this country what Australian brunch was. The ricotta hotcakes with banana and honeycomb butter are still the reason people queue round the corner.
Get there for 7am on a weekday, or 8am on a Sunday, and order the hotcakes. They take no bookings before 5pm and the queue by half ten at a weekend is forty minutes. Being there at opening is the only reliable strategy and it is worth setting an alarm for.
Where: 175 Westbourne Grove, W11 2SB. From 7am Monday to Saturday, 8am Sunday. £14 to £19.
Lowry & Baker
A small room at the north end of Portobello, near Golborne rather than on it, doing build-your-own sourdough plates and the sweetcorn fritters that made its name.
Order the fritters and go on a Thursday. It is closed Wednesdays and Sundays, which is an unusual pairing and the reason people find the shutters down, and the weekend queue for a room this size is not worth it when a Thursday morning is empty.
Where: 339 Portobello Road, W10 5SA. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday to Saturday, 8am to 4pm. £10 to £14.
Farm Girl
The Portobello original of what is now a small group, doing the Australian-Californian thing with a rose latte that has been photographed more than most listed buildings.
Sit in the back courtyard rather than the front room. It is the reason to come here rather than to any of the other four Farm Girls, and most people take the first table they are offered and never see it.
Where: 59A Portobello Road, W11 3DB. Weekdays from 8.30am, weekends from 9am. £14 to £18.
Eggslut
The Los Angeles egg sandwich operation, still trading on Portobello Road despite a lot of chatter to the contrary, doing the Fairfax: soft-scrambled eggs with chives, cheddar and caramelised onion in a warm brioche bun.
Order the Fairfax and eat it on the street. There is barely any seating, the queue at 11am on a Saturday is long and fast-moving, and standing on Portobello with one of these is a better ten minutes than sitting inside would be.
Where: 185 Portobello Road, W11 2ED. Weekdays from 7am, weekends from 8am. £9 to £12.
Kuro Bagels
Kuro Eatery closed in January 2025 and reopened at the same Hillgate Street address as a bagel shop, which turns out to have been the right call. Build-your-own, properly boiled, and open every day.
Get pastrami on pumpernickel with the roasted garlic cream cheese. It is the cheapest good breakfast within five minutes of Notting Hill Gate station by a distance, and you can order ahead for collection, which nobody does.
Where: 5 Hillgate Street, W8 7SP. Daily 8am to 5pm. £8 to £12.
Ottolenghi
The Ledbury Road original, all white tile and a counter of salads and cakes you can see from the street. It is a deli with a few stools rather than a brunch room, and it is on this list for the pastry counter.
Go for the morning pastries and take them to the garden square, rather than trying to make a sit-down brunch of it. There are no table bookings and only a handful of seats, so treating it as a takeaway stop is the way to enjoy it rather than resent it.
Where: 63 Ledbury Road, W11 2AD. Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm, Sunday to 6pm. £6 to £15.
Gail’s
Yes, it is a chain, and the Portobello branch is still where half the street starts its Saturday. The bakery counter is the point rather than the menu.
Order the bacon and egg brioche bun and a cinnamon bun to take away. Sitting in on a Saturday morning is a fight for a table with people who have been there an hour; getting it to go and walking down to the market is the better version of the same twenty minutes.
Where: 138 Portobello Road, W11 2DZ. Daily. £6 to £12.
The Westbourne Grove end
Sunday in Brooklyn
The Williamsburg import, open on Westbourne Grove and doing the hazelnut maple praline pancakes with brown butter that made its name in New York.
Order a single stack, not the triple. They come in at £15, £17.50 and £21 for one, two and three, and the triple defeats almost everyone who orders it. Book through the site for parties under eight; weekend walk-ins are genuinely welcome, which is rare around here.
Where: 98 Westbourne Grove, W2 5RU. Daily from 8.30am at weekends, 9am weekdays. £13 to £18.
The Rusty Rabbit
A Sydney brunch operation that opened its first London room on Westbourne Grove in late 2024, and the most credible new Australian breakfast in the area since Granger.
Order the dukkah smashed avocado, which is the dish that justifies another avocado toast in W2. It runs to 6pm at weekends, so it is the answer when everything else on this list has stopped serving at three.
Where: 50 Westbourne Grove, W2 5SH. Weekdays 8am to 4pm, weekends 8am to 6pm.
Beam
A small group now, and the Westbourne Grove site is at the Bayswater end rather than in Notting Hill proper. Bright room, all-day menu, and Turkish eggs that are the best version of them around here.
Get the Turkish eggs with the focaccia and skip the coffee. The food is a step above the drinks, which is an unusual way round for a room that looks like this one.
Where: 103 Westbourne Grove, W2 4UW. Daily 8am to 5pm. £14 to £17.
TAB X TAB
A specialist coffee room at the Bayswater end of Westbourne Grove with a short, well-made food menu behind it.
The kitchen closes at 2pm, and this is the single most common complaint about the place. Get there before one if you want food, book through OpenTable at weekends, and a table for two is much easier than a table for four.
Where: 14-16 Westbourne Grove, W2 5RH. Weekdays from 8.30am, weekends from 9am, kitchen to 2pm. £13 to £17.
Bluebelles of Portobello
At the north end of Portobello towards Golborne, open from six in the morning seven days a week, which makes it the earliest thing on this list by two hours.
Use it as the pre-market stop rather than the destination. Six in the morning on a Saturday means you can eat, then be at the antiques end of Portobello before the crowd arrives, which is the only way to shop that market properly.
Where: 320 Portobello Road, W10 5RU. Monday to Saturday from 6am, Sunday from 7am. £10 to £15.
Eggbreak
A small room on Uxbridge Street doing eggs about a dozen ways, a minute from Notting Hill Gate station and consistently overlooked because it is not on Portobello.
The Turkish eggs at £18.50 are the order, and go on a weekday. It runs to 3pm on weekdays and 5pm at weekends, and the weekday version of this room is calm in a way the Portobello places never are.
Where: 30 Uxbridge Street, W8 7TA. Weekdays 8am to 3pm, weekends 8am to 5pm. £15 to £20.50.
One that has gone
The Electric Diner closed and Soho House put Speedboat Bar in the space in July 2025, at 191 Portobello Road. It is Luke Farrell’s Thai cooking and it is very good, but it is evening-led and there is no brunch service, so if you were heading there for eggs, do not.
The London x London Take
The single biggest improvement you can make to a Notting Hill brunch is going on a Thursday. Every room on this list is the same room on a Thursday as on a Saturday, minus the forty-minute wait, and half of them are quietly better for it.
If you are stuck with a weekend, the answer is to book: Dishoom, Los Mochis, Conscience Kitchen, The Tin Shed and Daylesford all take reservations, and everything else on Portobello does not. And the honest advice about Granger is that the hotcakes are as good as the reputation and the queue is not worth it after about half nine, so either be early or go somewhere else and come back on a weekday.
More of the area in our guides to things to do in Notting Hill, the Notting Hill cafes and brunch in Shoreditch.
