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Kensington Place

About Kensington Place

For many food-lovers, Kensington Place is where the current food renaissance all began. This was the first place where you could enjoy seriously good food, sometimes light and simple, but with deft, complex touches, in what is essentially a very smart of-the-moment brasserie-style setting. Kensington Place taught us to expect fabulous space, madly buzzing ambience, service, and food that made us swoon. And now? It’s still fabulous, still has Rowley Leigh at the helm, and still is number-one choice for media and stage types, and lucky local denizens of Notting Hill. The modern decor features enormous plate glass windows for the see-and-be-seen factor, a calm mural of a child’s ball on a pond, designer chairs and designer everything else, and an active and satisfying bar area where you can grab a snack. Buy why deny yourself the full KP experience? You haven’t lived until you’ve tried the starter of chicken and goats cheese mousse, or griddle scallops with pea puree and mint vinaigrette. Try mains of game sausages with red cabbage and nursery-type puds like Beaujolais pears with black pepper ice cream. The wine list is imaginative and there are loads by the glass and down at the affordable end. The greeting staff are exceptional and the waiters slim as whippets to fit between the tables.

Full a la carte

Starter

Chilled fennel soup with peas and mint - £7.00
Fish soup with rouille and croutons - £7.00
Peach and tomato salad - £7.00
Cos lettuce, avocado and cherry tomato salad with parmesan - £7.00
Buffalo mozzarella with courgettes and candied lemon - £9.00
Omelettes: fines herbes 6.50 mousserons - £7.50
Grilled puffballs with salsa verde - £7.50
Risotto with girolles - £8.50
Six rock oysters - £7.50
Tuna and bean salad - £7.00
Smoked salmon - £8.50
Grilled squid with chilli and rocket - £8.50
Griddled prawns with herbs and lemon - £11.50
Griddled scallops with pea puree and mint vinaigrette - £12.50
Langoustines with mayonnaise - £18.50
Chicken and goats' cheese mousse with olives - £6.50
Presunto with melon - £8.50
Griddled foie gras with a sweetcorn pancake - £11.00
Grilled sardines - £10.00

Main Course

Grey mullet with lemon and olives - £12.50
Bouillabaisse with monkfish, john dory and rascasse - £17.50
Grilled dover sole - £21.50
Grilled wild salmon with samphire and gooseberry sabayon - £24.50
Grilled coquelet with mustard and baked tomatoes - £15.50
Confit of rabbit with garlic toast, rosemary and saute potatoes - £12.50
Fried lambs sweetbreads with peas and hollandaise - £14.50
Saute of beef rump and veal kidneys with girolles - £17.50
Sirloin steak bearnaise:
Contrefilet (200g) - £14.50
Entrecote: (300g) - £18.50
Baked globe artichoke with girolles and mozzarella - £15.00

Dessert

Ice creams and sorbets - £5.00
Lemon tart - £6.00
Orange crème caramel - £6.50
Biscotti with : moscato zabaglione - £6.50 vin santo - £7.50
Elderflower mousse with summer berries - £6.50
Grilled pineapple with chilli syrup and coconut ice cream - £6.50
Grilled peaches with amaretto - £6.50
Raspberries or strawberries with cream, crème fraiche or ice cream - £7.00
Baked tamarillos with vanilla ice cream - £7.00
Strawberries with almond sponge and moscato zabaglione - £7.50
Tiramisu - £6.50
Hot chocolate pudding with custard - £6.50
Chocolate marquise with pistachios and torrone - £7.50
Hot bitter chocolate mousse with coffee ice cream - £7.50
Grand selection - £12.50
Cheese - £8.50

Bars Near Kensington Place

In-house Bar

Kensington Place has a small bar area where you can have a few drinks while waiting for your table. The bar area is also ideal for an informal snack.

Additional Information

Address:

201 - 209 Kensington Church Street, W8 7LX

Nearest tube:

Notting Hill Gate

Average Price:

£45 (€63)

Opening times:

Mon - Fri 12 noon - 3pm, Sat & Sun 12 noon - 3.30pm. Mon - Sat 6.30pm - 11.30pm & Sun 6.30pm - 10pm

Dress Code:

Smart casual

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