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Ladbroke Grove area guide

Discover leafy Ladbroke Grove's best restaurants, bars and pubs with Time Out's very helpful guide
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Once (apparently) the epicentre of London's underground, the leafy little enclave of Ladbroke Grove is a little smarter these days. And while the musicians and misfits have been replaced with a bit of money, the spirit remains, with the restaurants, bars and pubs of W10 and W11 pretty much all the proof you need - they're ace.

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Restaurants in Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke Grove highlights

Acklam Village Market
Things to do

Acklam Village Market

This very popular, community-focused weekend market is the local's alternative to Portobello Road. So much so that it was a 2018 Love City Award...

Ladbroke Grove bars and pubs

Trailer Happiness
Bars and pubs

Trailer Happiness

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • price 2 of 4
Remaining laudably tongue-in-cheek while the rest of Ladbroke Grove drowns in chichi spots, Trailer Happiness is not a cocktail bar as such – with its...
Rum Kitchen
Bars and pubs

Rum Kitchen

  • 4 out of 5 stars
There surely can’t be a more jolly place to drink in Notting Hill: colourful wooden wall-slats and furniture fill the upstairs bar, and down in the party-time...
Castle
Bars and pubs

Castle

  • 3 out of 5 stars
Whatever the price and quality of the gastropub fare (pork belly and mash for a tenner, roasted root risotto at £7.50), this is a proper Portobello local. The...
Portobello Star
Bars and pubs

Portobello Star

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • price 2 of 4
Gentrification has sunk its claws into this once-scruffy boozer, for years one of the holdouts along the Portobello Road. Fronted by a couple of pavement...