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Kensington Cafes and Coffee Shops: Where to Go
Over Under opens at 7am, the V&A café sits in rooms from 1868 and the park cafés take cards only: 11 Kensington cafes with hours and hygiene ratings, Oct 2026.
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Food & Drink
Kensington Pubs: The Best Pubs and Where to Drink
Fourteen Kensington, Notting Hill and Chelsea pubs, four with nationally listed interiors, with hours, food, dogs and hygiene ratings. Checked October 2026.
Parks
Kensington Playgrounds and Parks for Children
The Diana playground, Holland Park and Kensington Memorial Park lead 15 Kensington and Chelsea playgrounds, with ages, toilets, hours and closures for October.
Notting Hill
Notting Hill Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Notting Hill
Notting Hill roadworks: Pavement outside, 146-154 Notting Hill Gate, LONDON (notice of 13 Oct) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each...
Notting Hill
Notting Hill Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Notting Hill weather today: light rain, 17°C by day and 10°C overnight, with a 98% chance of rain and winds up to 17 mph.
Food & Drink
Kensington Restaurants: The Best Places to Eat
Core, the Ledbury and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay hold three Michelin stars. 16 Kensington, Chelsea and Notting Hill restaurants with prices, checked October 2026.
What's on
Shatila refugee children's art at The Tabernacle: 21-24 Oct
Paintings and drawings by children in Shatila refugee camp, Beirut, are on show at The Tabernacle, W11, 21 to 24 October. Proceeds go to help the children.
Food
Kensington food hygiene: all 69 September ratings were 5s
All 69 Kensington and Chelsea food premises rated in September scored 5. Thai Rice on Portobello Road now holds the borough's only zero, given in August.
What's on
Tabernacle accordion concert: two orchestras, 25 Oct, £12
London Accordion Orchestra and Germany's Akkordeon-Studio-Orchester Bielefeld play The Tabernacle, Notting Hill, on 25 October at 2pm. Tickets £15 or £12.
Planning
Notting Hill Gate: shops cut 681 sq m, offices up 332
Councillors approved revised Newcombe House drawings on 15 September: 681 sq m less shop space, 332 sq m more office, a medical centre 9 sq m over minimum.
Kensington
Kensington sniffer dogs: 1,514 illicit items seized in a day
Three spaniels worked shops in Notting Hill Gate, Ladbroke Grove and South Kensington on 2 September: 1,514 items taken, and no formal action decided yet.
Notting Hill
Carnival clean-up: free basement clean, book by 10 Sept
Households in the Carnival area can book a free basement and frontage clean until 5pm on Thursday 10 September. The council cleared more than 300 tonnes of waste over two nights.
Notting Hill Carnival
Notting Hill Carnival 2026 Road Closures: Open 6am Tuesday
Roads inside the Carnival area are shut from 6am on Sunday 30 August to 6am on Tuesday 1 September. No bin collections on 31 August or 1 September.