Most 'best breakfast in Notting Hill' guides read like a tourist board press release. This is the version after a year and a half of Saturday-morning ground truth — the ones I actually go back to, in the order I order them, with the dishes that are worth the queue and the days you should skip. Notting Hill is small enough that all five spots below sit inside a 12-minute walk of each other; pick by mood and how patient you feel that morning.
KURO Bagels — the everyday answer
Kuro at 95 Notting Hill Gate is the bagel I order most often, and the one I send people to first. The room is small, the queue moves fast, the bagels are dense in the right way, and the kitchen runs warm enough that the first bite has steam in it. My order is the sausage and egg with spicy mayo — the mayo is properly spicy, not the British-restaurant version of spicy that means 'a single grain of cayenne'. Get it on a sesame.
They also run a separate Kuro Bakery and Kuro café on the same row — same kitchen, different format. The matcha is the better matcha in W11 (the only competition is the matcha bars further afield), the filter coffee rotates and is genuinely worth ordering filter rather than defaulting to a flat white. If you want a 20-minute breakfast on a weekday morning that punches well above its price tier, Kuro is the answer.
- Order: sausage egg with spicy mayo on sesame; matcha latte; whatever filter is on.
- Open 8am to 4pm weekdays, 8am to 5pm weekends.
- Time it: walk in before 9.30am on weekdays. Weekends after 10am the queue is real.
It's Bagels — the proper New York pick
If Kuro is the everyday bagel, It's Bagels at 120 Kensington Park Road is the homesick-for-New-York bagel. Boiled, then baked, with the dense chew that only a properly hydrated dough delivers. Opened in August 2024 on the Westbourne Grove corner, it has been the answer for the lox-and-cream-cheese audience ever since.
My order is the bacon-egg-and-cheese on an everything bagel when I want the diner version, or the lox with cream cheese, capers, and red onion when I want the deli version. Both are legitimate New York-shaped, which is the thing that was missing from London for the last decade and that two bagel shops on the same Notting Hill corner have somehow solved in eighteen months.
- Order: BEC on everything; OR lox with cream cheese, capers, red onion.
- Open 8am to 5pm daily.
- Time it: weekday mornings before 10am. Saturday queues hit 30 minutes.
Beam — the Turkish eggs that everyone in W11 has had
Beam at 103 Westbourne Grove is the third site of the family-run café from Crouch End — Ozgur and Sidar Akyuz's mid-century space that has been the Notting Hill brunch destination since the location opened. The Turkish eggs are the dish: garlic yoghurt, two medium-poached organic eggs, browned butter with Pul biber chilli flakes, diced spicy beef sausage, rosemary focaccia. It is always 10/10. I have eaten it probably 25 times. It has not slipped once.
Two operational rules. First: walk-ins only — they do not take reservations, so showing up is the only path. Second: strict no-laptop policy on weekdays after 10am. If you were planning to camp with an iced filter and your work for two hours, that is not the room. Get in, eat the Turkish eggs, leave.
- Order: Turkish eggs (non-negotiable). Kofte wrap if you've had the Turkish eggs and need rotation.
- Walk-ins only — no reservations.
- Strict no-laptops on weekdays after 10am.
Sunday in Brooklyn — the New York transplant on Westbourne Grove
Sunday in Brooklyn at 98 Westbourne Grove is the New York Williamsburg restaurant's first international location, opened in the corner two-floor space with the wrap-around windows. The dining room is bright, the room is calmer than Beam or Eggslut, and the menu does the high-end New York brunch shape — pancakes with malted hazelnut maple and brown butter, eggs benedict variations, a proper short rib hash.
This is the spot when you want to actually sit down and eat for an hour, not stand in a queue and inhale a bagel. They take reservations. The pancakes are the order you see on every Notting Hill brunch Instagram for a reason — they live up to the photo. Slightly more expensive than the bagel options (£18-25 a main rather than £8-12) but the room earns it.
- Order: pancakes with malted hazelnut maple; eggs benedict; short rib hash.
- Reservations recommended (SevenRooms).
- Best for: longer sit-down brunches, dates, family meals.
Eggslut — the cult LA import (with the queue to match)
Eggslut also serves fresh-squeezed orange juice and a very good cold brew — both hold their own next to the sandwiches and are a meaningful chunk of why I rate the place so highly. They deliver via Uber Eats too, which is the move on a Sunday when the queue outside has stretched past 40 minutes and you want the food but not the wait.
Eggslut at 185 Portobello Road is the Los Angeles cult breakfast-sandwich import, on the Portobello stretch a five-minute walk from Hermanos. The Fairfax (cage-free scrambled eggs, chives, cheddar, caramelised onions, sriracha mayo on a brioche bun) is the original; the Portobello Truffle (truffle, parmesan, scrambled eggs) is the London-specific menu item and the one I order most.
On weekdays this is a 10-minute breakfast. On weekends — and this is the rule, not an exception — the queue can stretch to 40 minutes by 11am, and the room is loud enough that a conversation happens at volume. Worth it for the Portobello Truffle once a month; not the answer for a relaxed Saturday.
- Order: Portobello Truffle; OR Fairfax with hash brown.
- Weekdays calm; weekend queues from 11am are real.
- Skip if you wanted a quiet morning.
Farm Girl — the sit-down pick when you have time to wait
Farm Girl on Portobello Road is the version of breakfast where you sit down properly. Pretty tucked-away entrance with white-painted brick and trailing greenery, the kind of place that photographs well and earns its Sunday queue. Pink lattes, big plates, well-executed brunch staples — turmeric scrambled tofu, the famous rose latte, sweetcorn fritters, the works. The room is calm enough to actually have a conversation in.
The catch is the wait. 20 minutes is the floor on a quiet morning; 60 minutes is the standard at peak weekend brunch hours. They take walk-ins only at the Portobello site (the Soho location takes bookings). If you have a 90-minute window and want a breakfast that feels like a real meal rather than a counter pickup, it is the right call. If you have 20 minutes, this is the wrong list entry — go to KURO instead.
Order: turmeric scrambled tofu; rose latte; sweetcorn fritters with avocado.
Walk-ins only at Portobello; 20–60 min wait standard at weekends.
Skip if your time budget is under an hour.
If you are feeling something different — Dishoom
Not a Notting Hill spot, but worth the mention because it is the alternative everyone forgets. Dishoom serves their full breakfast menu until 11.45am — the bacon naan roll is the order, the chai is properly cardamom-led, the room is the best-designed brunch space in central London. None of the four Dishoom locations are technically in Notting Hill (closest is the Kensington High Street area), but if you've already done KURO and It's Bagels twice each this month and want a different cuisine register, the 15-minute hop to Kensington or Carnaby is the move.
- Order: bacon naan roll; house chai; akuri (spiced scrambled eggs).
- Breakfast served until 11.45am only — set your alarm.
How to pick on the morning
If you had only one day in Notting Hill and could pick a single breakfast: I would send you to Eggslut. Everything on this list is a 10/10 in its category — KURO, It's Bagels, Beam, Sunday in Brooklyn, Farm Girl, Dishoom — but the flavour profile of the Eggslut sandwiches (the slow-poached eggs, the brioche bun, the truffle on the Portobello, the spicy mayo on the Fairfax) is something you genuinely will not experience at any other breakfast in the world. Everything else has an honest equivalent somewhere; Eggslut does not.
- Quick weekday breakfast under 25 minutes — KURO Bagels.
- Properly New York bagel — It's Bagels.
- Saturday brunch with a partner who insists on Turkish eggs — Beam (no laptops, walk in early).
- Sit-down brunch where you actually want to chat for 90 minutes — Sunday in Brooklyn.
- Cult sandwich, willing to queue — Eggslut Portobello.
- Not technically Notting Hill but you want bacon naan — Dishoom Kensington, before 11.45am.
And if you want coffee with the breakfast or after, the Hermanos rotation post covers what to drink alongside any of these. The KURO matcha is good, the Beam coffee is fine, but for the brew rotation Hermanos at 127 Portobello is the answer — a five-minute walk from Eggslut and three minutes from It's Bagels.
FAQ
What is the best breakfast in Notting Hill?
KURO Bagels at 95 Notting Hill Gate is the answer most weekday mornings — sausage and egg with spicy mayo on sesame, ready in 15 minutes, well-executed every time. For Turkish eggs, Beam at 103 Westbourne Grove. For New York-shaped bagels, It's Bagels at 120 Kensington Park Road. For sit-down brunch, Sunday in Brooklyn at 98 Westbourne Grove. For cult sandwiches with a queue, Eggslut at 185 Portobello Road.
Where to get bagels in Notting Hill?
Two genuinely good bagel shops on the same Notting Hill corner: KURO Bagels at 95 Notting Hill Gate (faster, smaller queue, sausage egg with spicy mayo is the order), and It's Bagels at 120 Kensington Park Road (proper New York-style, lox or BEC). Both opened in 2024 and have changed the bagel landscape in W11 meaningfully.
What are the best Turkish eggs in London?
Beam at 103 Westbourne Grove. Garlic yoghurt, medium-poached organic eggs, browned butter with Pul biber chilli flakes, diced spicy beef sausage, rosemary focaccia. Family-run by Ozgur and Sidar Akyuz, walk-ins only, no laptops on weekdays after 10am. The dish is the reason most W11 residents have eaten there at least three times.
Does Notting Hill have an Eggslut?
Yes, at 185 Portobello Road, W11 2ED — the first UK Eggslut location, opened 2019. The Portobello Truffle is the London-specific menu item; the Fairfax is the original from Los Angeles. Weekdays are calm; weekend queues from 11am are 30 to 40 minutes.
Where to eat breakfast in Notting Hill before 9am?
KURO Bagels opens 8am, It's Bagels opens 8am, Beam opens 8am most days. Sunday in Brooklyn opens later (typically 9am weekdays, 10am weekends). For the rare 7am breakfast, Hermanos coffee shops open 7am — pair coffee there with a takeaway from KURO once they open at 8.
The Notting Hill morning, in order
Tie it together: bookshop pilgrimage at 13 Blenheim Crescent (the Hugh Grant film one), then KURO at 95 Notting Hill Gate, then Hermanos at 127 Portobello for the post-breakfast cup, then walk Portobello Market on a Friday or Saturday. That is the version of the Notting Hill morning that makes the trip worth the hour on the Underground. If you have an extra 20 minutes after that, the antiques end of Portobello (north of Westbourne Park Road) is the part most visitors miss.
The good Notting Hill morning is not the Instagram morning. It is the one where you walked the bookshop, ate the spicy mayo bagel, and were back at the flat by noon with the rest of the day still ahead of you.