Restaurant Eats Out: Notting Hill

Restaurant took a group of operators to check out three of the west London area’s best places to eat and drink.

Din Tai Fung

Din Tai Fung is a world-renowned Taiwanese restaurant chain celebrated for its delicate xiao long bao soup dumplings. Founded in Taipei in 1958 as a cooking oil shop, it now has locations across Asia, North America, Europe, and beyond, maintaining its reputation for precision, quality, and exceptional service that showcases the artistry of Taiwanese cuisine. Canary Wharf is the brand’s fourth and most recently launched London restaurant.

Kricket

Kricket is a modern Indian restaurant group based in London, founded in 2015 by Will Bowlby and Rik Campbell, who met at university. Kricket’s cuisine is characterised by fresh, seasonal British ingredients combined with bold Indian flavours. The food is served in a sharing style, with a menu that includes small and larger plates, snacks, sides, and tandoor dishes. Kricket now operates four London sites — not bad for a concept that started out in a shipping container in Brixton.

Roe

Roe is Will Murray, Jack Croft, and James Robson’s follow-up to their smash hit, Fallow. Considerably bigger than its St James’s Street sibling, Roe serves creative modern British cuisine with strong sustainability credentials, following a “nose-to-tail, root-to-stem” approach that uses all parts of animals, under-used ingredients, regenerative crops, rare-breed meats, and responsibly sourced fish from across the British Isles. The menu is diverse, featuring shareables and small plates (nibbles, flatbreads, skewers, and grills), as well as larger plates, sides, and feasting or mixed grills.