London Notting Hill: Food Walking Tour & Movie Locations

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Duration2h

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A Bacon Sandwich in a 19th-Century Hut, Then Pastries Spiced with Cardamom

You taste five bakery stops across Notting Hill in two hours with a local guide, moving between a historic cabmen's shelter, specialist scone shop, Portobello Road pie bakery, and two contemporary spots blending British and global flavors. The walk includes film locations from Paddington and music history on All Saints Road. Dietary accommodations available with advance notice; children under four join free but without food included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Notting Hill food and film walk

Visit historic cabmen’s shelter
Eat classic bacon sandwich
Taste warm scone with jam and cream
Drink English Breakfast tea
Stand outside George Orwell’s former home
Sample rich beef and ale pie
Pass by Paddington antiques shop
Try pastries with Indian spices and chai
Walk through pastel-coloured streets
See former Island Records studio
Enjoy bakewell tart with tea or coffee

The Experience

You're standing in front of a tiny green shelter on a London street, the kind cab drivers have used for over a hundred years, and your guide is handing you a bacon sandwich wrapped in paper. It's not fancy. It's the opposite of fancy. And that's the whole point of this Notting Hill food walking tour — the real stuff comes first, before the Instagram moments. Over two hours, you'll move through five bakeries and past the film locations that made this neighborhood famous, tasting your way through what immigration and time have actually done to British baking, not what a menu designer thinks it should be.

The tour starts with that cabmen's shelter bacon sandwich, then moves to a specialist scone bakery where you'll settle the scone pronunciation debate over warm pastry, clotted cream, and English Breakfast tea. After that comes a beef and ale pie on Portobello Road Market itself — the kind that's been baked in the same neighborhood for decades. Your local guide will walk you past George Orwell's former home and the blue door from Paddington, pointing out how the streets shifted from working-class enclave to bohemian hub, and you'll understand why every corner looks like it was painted for a film. The final stops include a French-inspired bakery with cardamom buns and spiced chai, and a quieter spot on All Saints Road where you'll finish with bakewell tart and tea. Between bites, there's the Island Records studio where 70s music legends recorded, the pastel houses everyone photographs, and the stories of how Bob Marley and other arrivals changed what "London baking" even means.

Groups stay small — minimum two guests — and the guide handles the pace so you're not rushing between stops or standing around waiting. If you have dietary needs, email ahead or add a note at booking and they'll work with the bakeries to swap things out. Kids under four can come free (though food isn't included for them), and strollers work fine on these streets. The tastings shift by season and what the bakeries have that day, so you might not get exactly the same five stops every time, but that's also why it doesn't feel like a script.

What’s included

Your day includes a local English-speaking guide, five food tastings across different bakeries (bacon sandwich, scone with clotted cream and jam, beef and ale pie, cardamom pastries with spiced chai, and bakewell tart), walking past film locations and music history sites in Notting Hill, and insider tips on the neighborhood's food and cultural scene. Dietary accommodations can be arranged with advance notice.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by London Food Tours by Eating Europe

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste real London baking — the kind locals actually eat — without arranging five separate stops yourself, and you're curious about how a neighborhood changes over time. The small group size and fixed two-hour window mean you see the highlights without the wandering.