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Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria

Award-winning Italian cooking in Notting Hill features wood-fired pizzas, regional pastas, and a heated terrace.

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Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria | Notting Hill Italian Restaurant & Wood Oven Pizza

The Kitchen and Its Benchmarks

Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria sits on Ladbroke Road in Notting Hill, delivering consistent Italian cooking that has earned a place in The Good Food Guide. The kitchen builds its reputation around benchmark pizzas baked in a wood oven, where dough rises into a puffy crust and the rim blisters over direct heat. Toppings arrive straight from Italy, including 20-month Parma ham and creamy burrata. This straightforward approach to Italian food keeps diners returning year after year.

Dishes and Seasonal Rhythms

Guests often start with preliminary pastas like spaghetti vongole or paccheri layered with veal ragù and pecorino. The menu then shifts to simply prepared fish and meat mains for those stepping away from dough. Bonet arrives as a Piedmontese chocolate custard draped in caramel sauce and finished with amaretto. The wine list supports these plates with a regionally divided map and house Sicilian blends available by the glass.

The Terrace and Private Dining

Weather rarely dictates the dining schedule here. The large covered terrace features a retractable roof alongside built-in heaters and heavy blankets. Groups seeking more seclusion can reserve the private lower ground floor room for celebrations. Authentic Italian flavours meet practical hospitality across every corner of the space.

Recognition

Awards & accolades

2026
The Good Food Guide
Good

Details

At a glance

The Good Food Guide 2026 — Good
Cuisines Italian
Services Dinner, Lunch, Private Parties, Takeaway

History

On the record

2026
The Good Food Guide — Good

When the wind is whistling through Notting Hill, but you still doggedly want to sit outside, the Portobello has a retractable-roof terrace with heaters and blankets, so you can get well bedded in and let the weather do what it likes. It's just one of the reasons this place has such a loyal following, though the benchmark pizzas might have something to do with that too. Properly puffy in texture, the raised edges blistered a little from the wood oven, their toppings are all about pedigree Italian produce – Spianata Calabrian salami, 20-month Parma ham, creamy burrata, buffalo mozzarella, piccante Gorgonzola. A whole one is fairly filling, but if you've arrived with an appetite, there are preliminary pastas such as spaghetti vongole, or paccheri with veal ragù and pecorino, to prime the pump. Simply prepared fish and meat mains are on hand to tempt any pizza denialists, and meals might end with something like bonet – Piedmontese chocolate custard with caramel sauce and amaretto. Get your bearings with the regionally divided Italian wine map that prefaces the list. Prices might seem a bit tough, but there is a serviceable glass selection from £7.50 for house Sicilian blends.

Established

Location

Find us

7 Ladbroke Road, Notting Hill, W11 3PA
London, United Kingdom
020 7221 1373
bookings@portobellolondon.co.uk
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