202 Restaurant

Excellent food, great location, friendly staff, love both the terrace and the inside seating area. I'm keto so it was easy to adjust some dishes to hold the bread, for instance. Highly recommended brunch / lunch place in the heart of Notting hill. Buttermilk pancakes are delicious. Later edit: had the healthy avocado breakfast which was also delicious. I also love their scrambled eggs.

Cool and fashionable brunch and lunch place with a clothing store in the basement. Food is great and portions are generous. They make fresh smoothies and some of the desserts change weekly. The English breakfast is delicious. Very quick service. Reasonable prices. Very close to Portobello road and many other restaurants and shops.

202 is really Brunch Central, and has managed, along with its other sceney peers on Westborne Grove, to occupy a legitimate place in people’s lives on Sunday, dethroning any remnant of religious service. After a healthy 20min average wait time (cool places in Notting Hill are always walk-ins) you’re cheerfully escorted to your table in a large buzzing room, with high ceilings and diners squished together. It feels right to be brunching there. On the tables all around, the lively conversations jump from the weekend debrief, to the gossip girl scheming, to the business planning, or the long due “life catch-up”. The place is alive and exudes energy. The brunch is ok. To be fair, I had the “healthy cooked breakfast”, which felt… well healthy. The avocado was cut rather than mashed, and that just doesn’t sit well with me in general. Nothing bad really, but nothing extraordinary either in this very basic avocado and egg toast. What is extraordinary on the other hand, is the crispy and salty “Frites” dish (aka their skinny fries). So elegant, so crunchy, so warm and tasty, that it makes you want to just have three or four servings as a meal.

3 of us came here on a weekday afternoon. It wasn’t busy at all and felt nice and spacious. We had 3 prams with us and the waitress was very accommodating. There were booked displayed on a shelf which we could take a look at and a clothing shop downstairs. I had the Banoffee Pie (£7.50) and a Latte (£3.25). Both were delicious. This is a nice chilled place to come in the week either alone or with others.