The Portobello Gold 95 / 97 Portobello Road Notting Hill, London W11 2QB Portobello Gold Notting Hill - Art Gallery - Sea Food / Seafood Restaurant - Hotel Accommodation - Cyber Cafe Bar Pub - Internet Access - Cocktails - Function Rooms Racist Notting Hill - Political Correctness - Marxist Zionist Notting Hill - Fight Anti White Racism & Anti British Propaganda - Vote BNP British National Party http://www.bnp.org.uk Portobello Gold - The Bar Imaginative inexpensive world winelist All day Bar menu Wired up with broadband and Wireless connection making us the ideal venue for Website launch parties All in a conservatory with a sliding glass roof Oyster bar - famous for the oyster shooter Classic cocktails 8 bottled and 8 Draught beers (including Hoegaarden wheat beer)Extensive wine list - 15 by the glass As many quality tequilas as are imported into the UK Music - world, progressive, fusion, blues, anything good and unrepetitive great atmosphere. From www.beerintheevening.com The Portobello Gold welcomed me recently when I stayed in the hotel. Their staff were outstandingly friendly and the wireless network was handy when I had business to do (while drinking a pint!). The selection of beers was surprising - czech, german, belgian and more and my friends loved the wine list, which I think was put together by the owners wife who had been a somelier in France for 15 years. I loved it!! I definitely recommend it, even though I would prefer to keep it a secret - it looks unappealing from the front. Portobello Gold - The Restaurant Modern British / MediterrAsian menu (great dishes from around the world). Seafood and vegetarian dishes a speciality. Two courses cost around £14.50. The best Sunday Lunch in London at a sensible price and a sensible time (1:30 - 9:30 pm). We also do childs portions. It is essential to book. From www.restaurant-guide.com In the heart of the Antiques Market, Portobello Gold was London's first gastropub and celebrates its 20th birthday in Jan 2005. It is an unpretentious pioneering sort of place with a delightful tropical conservatory restaurant with a sliding glass roof, serving (mainly) seafood and all-day traditional Sunday lunch. It is renowned as being the spiritual home of the oyster shooter. They also have seven rooms from a backpackers at £25 up to a rooftop apartment with sunny views at £180. Also Wireless Internet and cybercafe (free to hotel guests); it benefits from easy parking except on Saturday. From www.allinlondon.co.uk Portobello Gold offers a Modern British/Mediterranean menu with seafood and vegetarian dishes being the speciality. They also do a good Sunday lunch at a sensible time (between 1pm and 4.30pm) as well as children's portions. Catering for private parties of up to 60 guests is available upon request and seating in the garden area is provided, weather permitting. They also provide Internet access. Portobello Gold Oyster Bar serve a wide selection of beers, wines, spirits and cocktails. They have a Happy Hour between 5.30pm and 7pm every day of the week except Sunday. Portobello Gold - The Gallery The Gold Gallery showcases a new photographic or art exhibition every month. Whilst the most prolific art form here comes from a wealth of excellent photographers, we embrace all forms of art including paintings, artefacts and even African barber signs! It all adds to the diversity that the Portobello Gold is famous for. Exhibit in our Gallery The point as far as the Gold is concerned, is not to be a profit centre, but to give exposure to up and coming artists and photgraphers and to vary the feel of the place and to introduce new customers to the restaurant and bar in the process. We suggest a 10% commission be offered DIRECTLY to the staff by way of incentive and so it is important that they are au fait with your work. To maximise exposure of your work it is essential to make the most of the preview. We have in the past, left publicity to the artist and it hasn't always prompted the interest deserved. Why Portobello Gold? Portobello Gold has been a popular place to eat and drink since 1985 and, to many people, needs no introduction. Bearing in mind that 700-1000 a week pass through the Gold, what small gallery can offer that sort of attendance? Your show will run for one month and it is a good idea to be around at crucial times. It is up to you to replenish brochures. Don't assume, however, that we will have the time to spend with your customers - but our staff are trained to give as much help as possible. The Cost To stage a preview we charge £300.00 to include the following: 1) Cost price catering (24 bottles of wine and a buffet for 100 people) 2) Small administration fee to set up the preview 3) Help with the publicity (access to our ever increasing mailing list) 4) Space on our website 5) Mail-out to "Listings" services for up to 150 people Artists Responsibilities 1) Printing and framing (if applicable) 2) Invitations, brochures, flyers, price lists/fact sheets 3) Press releases 4) Door security 5) Photographer to cover the event 6) Insurance Portobello Gold - General & Reviews From ... http://www.viewlondon.co.uk  Five out of five stars The Gold is nice enough for me to wish to conceal this fact from you all so it doesn’t become nasty, overbearing and overcrowded. A stroll up past the delicate residential houses at the beginning of the Portobello Road, the Gold occupies its niche between tumbledown antiquarian shops with dirty windows and nouvy trinketry trendophile shops. Inside there’s a cosy fireside bar with nice booths, not too big for a discreet drink for two but roomy enough to squeeze four or five round for more social revels. The round bar in the middle is nicely curved and friendly, and the American barman who floated therein, rather like the nucleus in an amoeba, was helpful and charming. There’s another room set back from the bar, which is restaurant seating. Very nice and spacious it looked too, with its abundant foliage and faintly comic rag rolled wall paint effect. If forced to be picky, I wasn’t entirely sure about the black and white photography. It was guilty of a rather questionable affinity with a certain poster company that dominated the genre in the 80’s. The clientele were generally local, not chi-chi queens or posture princesses, but kinda cool in an understated fashion, like the bar. Even the internet stations are designed to look like (slightly) discreet futuristic pinball machines instead of large unsightly off white blobs. It’s also not too expensive. Starters from £2.50, mains such as Steak for £7.00, bottle of house wine £9.50. The house white was fine for the price. Seafood is something of a speciality and there’s an oyster bar. The main thing about it is that there’s a lovely laid back atmosphere, and as it’s not packed on a week night or terribly expensive, the commodity of good vibe is all the more valuable. As redolent of good cheer as a visit to sprightly but deeply decadent, hoarse-voiced aged relative. From ... www.mynottinghill.co.uk In reference to the review sent in by Chloe (below) I feel obliged to respond that Portobello Gold is one of the BEST places I have ever been to. The service is not immaculate, but if you want fast food - please DO go to Macdonalds. Portobello Gold has a really relaxed, fun atmosphere and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys going to a restaurant to settle in and get sozzled over some good food. It is nicely decked out too - the harem style love nest hidden away in the corner being a particularly unusual and excellent feature, not to mention the massive wicker chairs (think Jane Seymour in Live and Let Die). The roof opens in summer too, which is a nice touch. The oysters are great, the staff friendly and the Absinthe inhalation shot experience is not to be trifled with if you have to work the following day. The pub at the front is a nice place for a drink too. If salad delivery speed is your primary restaurant evaulation criterion - don't bother. Otherwise, check it out. Ed 30/10 Portobello Gold is possibly the very worst place I have ever been to!!! The service was so bad my friend was left without her meal for 1 hour and then to add insult to injury the waiter started jumping around as if we where going to leave without paying!!! When we pointed out the delay & forgotten salad's the chef came down from the kitchen especially to yell we should go to McDonalds round the corner next time - nice!! Chloe 03/10 Portobello Gold - The Hotel All rooms feature: Free internet access 24/7 Digital cable tv - 250 channels Direct dial out (and in) phone Laundry service (by arrangement with housekeeper) Continental breakfast Full breakfast extra (from 10am) Tea/Coffee facilities From ... www.viewlondon.co.uk Portobello Gold Hotel has 5 rooms and is ideally situated within easy reach of Kensington Palace and Gardens, Hyde Park and the West End. They offer a variety of facilities, including a modem point, air conditioning and cable TV in every room From ... www.information-britain.co.uk The only hotel in the heart of the Portobello Rd Antiques Market. FREE broadband Internet Access to Guests either in rooms or in our ground floor Cybercafe. Critically-acclaimed bar and attractively-priced conservatory garden restaurant. Rooms range from £25 Backpackers to Romantic maisonette roof terrace apartment (self catering or roof service!)at around £150 (depending on length of stay and number of people). 1952 Buick convertible available for tours, picnics and airport/theatre runs. Portobello Gold - Internet Access Features Include: Broadband connection Open 10am - 11pm main area shuts down @   5.30pm, 2 consoles left open after 9pm £2.00 per hour (minimum charge) Colour printing and scanning facilities

The Portobello Gold
95 / 97 Portobello Road
Notting Hill, London W11 2QB

Portobello Gold Notting Hill - Art Gallery - Sea Food / Seafood Restaurant - Hotel Accommodation - Cyber Cafe Bar Pub - Internet Access - Cocktails - Function Rooms Racist Notting Hill - Political Correctness - Marxist Zionist Notting Hill - Fight Anti White Racism & Anti British Propaganda - Vote BNP British National Party http://www.bnp.org.uk

From www.beerintheevening.com

The Portobello Gold welcomed me recently when I stayed in the hotel. Their staff were outstandingly friendly and the wireless network was handy when I had business to do (while drinking a pint!). The selection of beers was surprising - czech, german, belgian and more and my friends loved the wine list, which I think was put together by the owners wife who had been a somelier in France for 15 years. I loved it!! I definitely recommend it, even though I would prefer to keep it a secret - it looks unappealing from the front.

From www.allinlondon.co.uk

Portobello Gold offers a Modern British/Mediterranean menu with seafood and vegetarian dishes being the speciality. They also do a good Sunday lunch at a sensible time (between 1pm and 4.30pm) as well as children's portions. Catering for private parties of up to 60 guests is available upon request and seating in the garden area is provided, weather permitting. They also provide Internet access.

Portobello Gold Oyster Bar serve a wide selection of beers, wines, spirits and cocktails. They have a Happy Hour between 5.30pm and 7pm every day of the week except Sunday.

Portobello Gold - The Gallery

The Gold Gallery showcases a new photographic or art exhibition every month. Whilst the most prolific art form here comes from a wealth of excellent photographers, we embrace all forms of art including paintings, artefacts and even African barber signs! It all adds to the diversity that the Portobello Gold is famous for.

Exhibit in our Gallery

The point as far as the Gold is concerned, is not to be a profit centre, but to give exposure to up and coming artists and photgraphers and to vary the feel of the place and to introduce new customers to the restaurant and bar in the process. We suggest a 10% commission be offered DIRECTLY to the staff by way of incentive and so it is important that they are au fait with your work.

To maximise exposure of your work it is essential to make the most of the preview. We have in the past, left publicity to the artist and it hasn't always prompted the interest deserved.

Why Portobello Gold?

Portobello Gold has been a popular place to eat and drink since 1985 and, to many people, needs no introduction. Bearing in mind that 700-1000 a week pass through the Gold, what small gallery can offer that sort of attendance? Your show will run for one month and it is a good idea to be around at crucial times. It is up to you to replenish brochures. Don't assume, however, that we will have the time to spend with your customers - but our staff are trained to give as much help as possible.

The Cost

To stage a preview we charge £300.00 to include the following:
1) Cost price catering (24 bottles of wine and a buffet for 100 people)
2) Small administration fee to set up the preview
3) Help with the publicity (access to our ever increasing mailing list)
4) Space on our website
5) Mail-out to "Listings" services for up to 150 people

Artists Responsibilities

1) Printing and framing (if applicable)
2) Invitations, brochures, flyers, price lists/fact sheets
3) Press releases
4) Door security
5) Photographer to cover the event
6) Insurance

From ... http://www.viewlondon.co.uk 

Five out of five stars The Gold is nice enough for me to wish to conceal this fact from you all so it doesn’t become nasty, overbearing and overcrowded.

A stroll up past the delicate residential houses at the beginning of the Portobello Road, the Gold occupies its niche between tumbledown antiquarian shops with dirty windows and nouvy trinketry trendophile shops.

Inside there’s a cosy fireside bar with nice booths, not too big for a discreet drink for two but roomy enough to squeeze four or five round for more social revels. The round bar in the middle is nicely curved and friendly, and the American barman who floated therein, rather like the nucleus in an amoeba, was helpful and charming.

There’s another room set back from the bar, which is restaurant seating. Very nice and spacious it looked too, with its abundant foliage and faintly comic rag rolled wall paint effect. If forced to be picky, I wasn’t entirely sure about the black and white photography. It was guilty of a rather questionable affinity with a certain poster company that dominated the genre in the 80’s.

The clientele were generally local, not chi-chi queens or posture princesses, but kinda cool in an understated fashion, like the bar. Even the internet stations are designed to look like (slightly) discreet futuristic pinball machines instead of large unsightly off white blobs. It’s also not too expensive. Starters from £2.50, mains such as Steak for £7.00, bottle of house wine £9.50. The house white was fine for the price. Seafood is something of a speciality and there’s an oyster bar.

The main thing about it is that there’s a lovely laid back atmosphere, and as it’s not packed on a week night or terribly expensive, the commodity of good vibe is all the more valuable. As redolent of good cheer as a visit to sprightly but deeply decadent, hoarse-voiced aged relative.

From ... www.mynottinghill.co.uk

In reference to the review sent in by Chloe (below) I feel obliged to respond that Portobello Gold is one of the BEST places I have ever been to. The service is not immaculate, but if you want fast food - please DO go to Macdonalds.

Portobello Gold has a really relaxed, fun atmosphere and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys going to a restaurant to settle in and get sozzled over some good food. It is nicely decked out too - the harem style love nest hidden away in the corner being a particularly unusual and excellent feature, not to mention the massive wicker chairs (think Jane Seymour in Live and Let Die).

The roof opens in summer too, which is a nice touch. The oysters are great, the staff friendly and the Absinthe inhalation shot experience is not to be trifled with if you have to work the following day. The pub at the front is a nice place for a drink too. If salad delivery speed is your primary restaurant evaulation criterion - don't bother. Otherwise, check it out. Ed 30/10

Portobello Gold is possibly the very worst place I have ever been to!!! The service was so bad my friend was left without her meal for 1 hour and then to add insult to injury the waiter started jumping around as if we where going to leave without paying!!! When we pointed out the delay & forgotten salad's the chef came down from the kitchen especially to yell we should go to McDonalds round the corner next time - nice!! Chloe 03/10

Portobello Gold - The Hotel

All rooms feature:

Free internet access 24/7

Digital cable tv - 250 channels

Direct dial out (and in) phone

Laundry service (by arrangement with housekeeper)

Continental breakfast

Full breakfast extra (from 10am)

Tea/Coffee facilities

From ... www.viewlondon.co.uk

Portobello Gold Hotel has 5 rooms and is ideally situated within easy reach of Kensington Palace and Gardens, Hyde Park and the West End. They offer a variety of facilities, including a modem point, air conditioning and cable TV in every room

From ... www.information-britain.co.uk

The only hotel in the heart of the Portobello Rd Antiques Market. FREE broadband Internet Access to Guests either in rooms or in our ground floor Cybercafe. Critically-acclaimed bar and attractively-priced conservatory garden restaurant. Rooms range from £25 Backpackers to Romantic maisonette roof terrace apartment (self catering or roof service!)at around £150 (depending on length of stay and number of people). 1952 Buick convertible available for tours, picnics and airport/theatre runs.

Portobello Gold - Internet Access

Portobello Gold - Locations

Notting Hill and Portobello Road in particular is one of the most famous media locations in London.

Portobello Gold is situated right in the heart of the Portobello Antiques market which only runs on Saturdays. As opposed to the fruit and veg market further down the street, the Antiques block is the quietest part of the whole road, with no through traffic and mainly pedestrians.

Over the years, the following features have proven to be the most popular:

1. Our tropical conservatory with sliding glass roof, offers plenty of light on a winter’s day. The (Kentia) palms, weeping figs and Yukkas are 20 years old and are very photogenic. As the bar operates as an Internet Café during the daytime, it is reasonably quiet in the weekday. Crews can be fed and watered in this area throughout the day.

2. Our roof terrace is a great favourite and was chosen by Working Title for roof top scenes in 'Notting Hill'. There is a pleasant view of St Peters Church to the rear, Kensal Rise four miles to the North and a perfect panorama of the whole of the Portobello Road Antiques market (on Saturdays only). The 900 sq ft space is not overlooked and access is straight out of our hotel apartment (no clambering up ladders).

Other popular facilities include:

Unlimited use of broadband Internet access via wireless and laptop sockets is available throughout the building. There is also an Internet café on the ground floor.
Our seven hotel rooms (all with direct outside lines and digital cable TV), can double as dressing rooms.
Our kitchen and bar can cater for units of up to 70 people (usually from 8am)
Parking is exceptionally good for London – except Saturdays. There are pay and display and single yellow lines and, with the market only on Saturdays, very little traffic.

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