First Floor Restaurant & Private Dining Rooms
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- Cuisine:
- Modern European
- Price:
- £45+ per person
Listed In
- London W
- Notting Hill
- Business
- Events
- Meetings
- Olympics 2012
- Restaurant Take-Overs
- Pleasure
- Birthdays
- Olympics 2012
- Party
- Restaurant Take-Overs
- Weddings
Rooms Available
- The Banqueting Room 28 Guests Seated
- The Inner Grand Room 40 Guests Seated 60 Guests Standing
- The Banqueting Rom and The Inner Grand Room combined 70 Guests Seated 80 Guests Standing
Overview
Notting Hill’s favourite, First Floor Restaurant, with its two amazing private rooms, has seen plenty of pretenders come and go. The hottest restaurant in the Portobello/Kensington Park Road neighbourhood.
At the beginning of the 1990´s a very free thinking conversion from what had once been a grand Victorian pub resulted in the restaurant being at the epicentre of the
Notting Hill Big Bang.
The Private Rooms on the top floor comprise two Gothic meeting/banqueting rooms positively dripping in atmosphere.
The stunning, high-ceilinged First Floor Restaurant is deeply Romantic (with a touch of Gothic) with elegant drapes, classical stone carvings, magnificent autumnal dried flower arrangements, all warmly lit with candles and a huge candelabra. Spacious and comfortable, it’s all very intimate and individual and needs to be seen to be believed.
Head Chef, Gareth Barber - who worked at Avenue in St. James's and The Spread Eagle in Greenwich - is wowing our loyal fan base of locals, fashionistas, celebs and romantic couples with his magic cooking.
There are two adjoining private rooms, one of which houses a grand mahogany banqueting table which seats up to 28 people, the other is the gorgeous Inner Grand Room which seats up to 40.
Insider View
This huge building at the heart of Portobello road is an institution for the fashionable elite and rightly so. Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and Jade Jagger dine together at the First Floor restaurant frequently and with shabby chic exemplified by the dining spaces its easy to see why it appeals to the ultimate in cool clientele.
No points for guessing that the main private dining restaurant is on the first floor. As you make your way up the fabulous worn stairs, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see a plot of shrubbery. Details like this abound in this quirky venue. Just past this, the private cloakroom is at your convenience. Entering the Portobello room, you should be impressed by the spacious round area and magnificent views of the vibrant Notting Hill high street. With deep rose walls, flowers pouring from holders and a gigantic chandelier taking centre stage, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d found a modern day haunt of Marie Antoinette.
Winding your way up to the attic, you reach the large inner grand room complete with open roof beams and private bar. It’s a fabulous, Tim Burton-esque space where quartz explodes out of cracks in the walls and candle wax mutates from numerous candelabras. The key characteristic here is the atmosphere itself. Of course, the ramshackle and crumbling interior design is entirely premeditated and boy, does it work. The First Floor restaurant is breaking records and last year was its busiest of all. It’s not hard to see why with such a distinctive and curious charm.
The most private of all the dining rooms is the banqueting room at the back of the attic space. Here three large windows afford you a bird’s eye view of Portobello road and a huge, oval table can accommodate up to 28 guests for dinner. Exposed brickwork and an amalgamation of paints and textures adorn the walls. A mix of contrasting chairs adds character and a swarm of candelabras provides mood lighting.
Work is due to start shortly on the rooms starting with the floors and so you can imagine that the rough aesthetic appeal of this spectacular venue in Notting Hill will be all the more rough and aesthetic soon. Ticking boxes with its location, ambiance and extravagance, this is a special place that will certainly meet your standards.
