Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in London Brook Green
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Brook Green restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 18 restaurants in Brook Green and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Brook Green restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. The Melody Restaurant
International restaurant in Hammersmith and Fulham
153 Hammersmith Road - W14
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2. Zia Lucia
Pizza restaurant in Brook Green
61 Blythe Road - W14
“It’s hard to be ‘special’ with pizza these days with so much competition, but the eye-catching options give an edge” to this popular nine-strong chain, whose calling card is a choice of four different 48-hour fermented pizza bases, including the distinctive black vegetable charcoal. Their latest opening is in Canary Wharf.
3. Pentolina
Italian restaurant in Brook Green
71 Blythe Road - W14
A “perfect neighbourhood spot” near Brook Green – “Michele and Heidi’s wonderful home from home” thrives on their “warm welcome”, “honest” and “reasonably priced” Italian food and “lovely wine list”. Most fans are local, but one or two cross London to visit.
4. Popeseye
Steaks & grills restaurant in Olympia
108 Blythe Rd - W14
2021 Review: “Grotty-looking, but serving top steak!” – that’s been the trade-off for over two decades at this “intimate and special”, but simultaneously “fairly basic” little quirk of a bistro, in the backstreets near Olympia. “If you like good steak then this is as good a place to start as any: its excellent meat, cooked perfectly, takes some beating”, and is supplemented by an intriguing wine selection of well-chosen bin ends. The N19 branch is no more.
5. Le Petit Citron
French restaurant in Hammersmith and Fulham
98-100 Shepherds Bush Road - W6
This “dependable neighbourhood bistro”, on a busy stretch linking Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush, combines classic gingham tablecloths with a menu inspired by Provence – favoured holiday destination for proprietors Lawrence & Emily Hartley, who previously operated the site as Mustard.
6. The Havelock Tavern
British, Modern restaurant in Olympia
57 Masbro Rd - W14
This “lovely local pub with decent food” behind Olympia has been a significant presence on the West London gastropub scene for almost 30 years, with its distinctive blue-tiled facade and elevated menu. Long-time regulars feel “it’s not like it was in the old days” (when folks flocked from miles around), but they still feel it’s “good all round”.
7. The Bird in Hand
Pizza restaurant in West Kensington
88 Masbro Road - W14
“Great food and drink, especially pizza” makes it worth remembering this stylish (if sometimes noisy) Olympia pub-conversion, a few minutes’ walk from Brook Green (part of the Oak group).
8. Patri
Indian restaurant in Hammersmith and Fulham
103 Hammersmith Grove - W6
This West London pair of Indian street-food canteens, in Ealing and Hammersmith, elicits little in the way of commentary this year but wins its usual solid ratings for food and service.
9. Kindred
British, Modern restaurant in Hammersmith and Fulham
Bradmore House, Queen Caroline Street - W6
Need somewhere civilised to meet for an informal business lunch or catch-up with a pal in Hammersmith? Then it’s well worth remembering this convivial haunt, improbably located in the cellars of a large Grade II mansion (Bradmore House – nowadays a coworking space) marooned in the middle of trafficky Hammersmith Broadway, right by the tube. A short menu of simple fare is well-prepared and service is friendly. Top Tip – nice terrace on a sunny day too.
10. Brackenbury Wine Rooms
British, Modern restaurant in Hammersmith
111-115 Hammersmith Grove - W6
This “cheerful” and “enjoyable” Hammersmith haunt carries a good selection of wines and its kitchen offers modern bistro food – but ‘La Cave’, its coffee house, generates the most feedback this year, for its “friendly staff”, “superb coffee” and “the best chocolate brownies”.
11. Cumberland Arms
Mediterranean restaurant in Olympia
29 North End Rd - W14
2021 Review: “Just around the corner from Olympia”, it’s worth knowing about this well-rated pub, in the not-particularly-auspicious northerly reaches of the North End Road. In the same stable as Earl’s Court’s excellent Atlas, it delivers “a very enjoyable meal, with a good quality menu and a lovely atmosphere”.
12. The Dartmouth Castle
British, Modern restaurant in Hammersmith
26 Glenthorne Rd - W6
“This unassuming pub tucked around the back of Hammersmith’s one-way system serves good and hearty Mediterranean food”, in particular some “lovely pasta dishes” – “don’t miss the penne with Italian sausage ragu”. It’s also a “top sun trap for early-evening drinks on the patio”.
13. Cibo
Italian restaurant in Olympia
3 Russell Gdns - W14
This tasteful backstreet 1980s Italian, with interesting art on the walls, sits in the no-man’s-land between Kensington and Olympia; and has become less well-known since the death of Michael Winner ten years ago (who used to plug it remorselessly in The Sunday Times as his favourite restaurant). Its quiet virtues as a high quality and authentic venture have changed little over the years: “still love this venue, but best to go in the week when the kitchen isn’t too busy”. Top Menu Tip – go for fish and seafood here.
14. Alounak
Persian restaurant in Olympia
10 Russell Gdns - W14
2021 Review: “I started eating at Alounak when it was in a container in a car park round the corner” over twenty-five years ago, and this Iranian café over the tracks from Olympia remains a “favourite BYO” to this day, with its “consistently good Persian comfort food”: in particular “superb kebabs”. (A Bayswater ‘Alounak’ is still in operation, but seems now to operate independently of W14.)
15. Rangrez
Indian restaurant in
32 Fulham Palace Road - W6
2023 Review: Limited but good all-round feedback on this family-run Punjabi stalwart, which has long been a feature of the restaurant strip just to the south of Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo (and which sometimes only serves a restricted menu in the early evening during events there). It also has a branch in Ealing (not listed).
16. Eat 17 Hammersmith
British, Modern restaurant in Hammersmith
Unit A 77 Fulham Palace Road - W6
2021 Review: “In the heart of Walthamstow Village”, this “great neighbourhood spot” – a Spar supermarket with kitchen attached – wins praise for its “quality” cooking (“the 2019 Harden’s description of pub-type grub underplays its standard and originality”). “Very relaxed and welcoming for young children”, the venture’s best-known innovation is bacon jam, which you can buy by the jar in various flavours. Other branches have opened in Hackney and, most recently, Hammersmith (somewhat better-served areas, so these respective branches are somewhat less of a local lifeline).
17. The Gate
Vegetarian restaurant in Hammersmith
51 Queen Caroline St - W6
“A go-to favourite vegetarian… they have been going for 30 years” – this small group “still maintains high standards” with “very imaginative dishes that will even please your meat-eating friends”. The W6 original – a characterful space, above a church behind Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo – is the most popular, but its spin-offs near Sadlers Wells and in Seymour Village are also well-regarded.
18. Aroma Buffet
Japanese restaurant in Shepherd's Bush
First Floor, West 12 Shopping Centre - W12
All spent out at Westfield? Head for this large first-floor eatery within the much-less-glam’-looking West 12 Shopping Centre on the other side of Shepherd’s Bush Green. Reports on the all-you-can-eat £15 pan-Asian buffet are few, but The Guardian’s Grace Dent in late 2022 was a fan, describing a “vast” array of “feisty flavours” (with diverse dishes from as far afield as Canton and West Sumatra) whose “pleasing” prices spark “joy through dark times and ransacked wallets”.
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