Electric Diner

Electric Diner

The Electric Diner provides the perfect setting to enjoy a bite to eat and a refreshing drink or two!

Adjacent to one of the oldest cinemas in London and downstairs from the Electric House, The Diner opens at 8am for breakfast, switches to our All-day menu at 12pm and continues until 11pm (10pm on Sundays).

Our late night menu is served until 1am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Our bar is open until midnight during the week, 1am on Thursdays and until 2am on Friday and Saturday – stocked with 20 different draught and bottled beers, wines and strong new takes on classic cocktails.

There’s booth and bar seating, and a specially chosen soundtrack played from the Diner’s reel-to-reel machine.

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Electric Diner in Notting Hill is part of the larger experience that is provided by Electric House, a private members club on Portobello Road.

This venue, should you become a member, has a drinking library, bar, restaurant, private cinema and a smoking terrace among other lounging area's for members to enjoy.

The in-house cinema is much the same with little tables holding up old fashioned looking lamps, individual armchairs and again, low hanging plush ceiling lights in a spacious arena.

Membership and Registration starts from £400, but if you like the exclusivity, enjoy a private, spacious cinema and private areas to lounge and drink, then this is for you.

Once a member, you can enjoy the variety of drinking areas, the American and French influenced menu on offer at the diner, a beautiful out door smoking terrace and the luxury of having all of this under one roof.

Electric Diner, Notting Hill restaurant review

The buzzThe Electric Diner is part of the inimitable Soho House Group, but unlike its other members-only venues, this one is open to the public and serves classic American fare all day long.

Situated on Notting Hill's Portobello Road, the restaurant aims to put a sophisticated spin on diner food, whose offering has just been refreshed with a new menu showcasing the lighter flavours of summer.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below The lowdownWith supple burgundy leather booths, a dark wood bar and low-swooping lamps, the interior nods to the traditional 1950s American diner but with a sprinkling of glamour.

The Electric Diner adheres to the Soho House Group's winning formula of casual luxury, with design details such as monochrome tiles, an arched ceiling and bare brick walls, and a lively soundtrack contributing to the buzzing atmosphere.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Menu highlightsLet's begin with what the Electric Diner is known and loved for – comfort food.

Restaurant Review: The Electric Diner, Portobello Road, London

Adjacent to this renowned picture house is The Electric Diner; a laid-back restaurant catering to an audience from across London who visit the famous cinema.

As you can probably guess from the name of this restaurant, they serve an American style menu but, interestingly, with a touch of French flair which mixes up their culinary concept to avoid food that is too basic for its sophisticated north London set.

You may assume an American style menu would be predominantly basic; however as part of The Soho House group – the menu at The Electric Diner isn’t as quite expected from first glance.

Adaptable to those from morning until night, this surprisingly varied menu is split into a variety of categories: appetizers, salads, plates, diner classics and sides.

Diving in with a ‘Diner Classic’ chosen with the help of our waiter, I select the single cheeseburger with a generous pot of sweet potato fries.

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I could drone on about the place's pedigree: it's basically an outpost of Chicago's wildly celebrated Au Cheval, in partnership with the Soho House Group – shared dishes, similar look – with that "gourmet greasy spoon's" chef owner, the marvellously named Brendan Sodikoff, consulting.

The tunnel-shaped room may brandish all the tiled floor, rusty light fittings, faux-pitted table tops and ox-blood booths of the knowing diner homage, but Electric Diner is less Brooklyn ripoff and more like somewhere you'd find in the US's less self-regarding cities: Boston, maybe, or Au Cheval's hometown.

Everything comes with brioche, even one unforgettable dish: woolly mammoth-sized bones stuffed with wibbly marrow, the lot anointed with beef cheek marmalade, a ripe, sweet, meaty sludge.

It's the kind of thing you goggle at on Man V Food, but done beautifully, the crumb base crisp, the meringue fluffy and ethereal, the lemon filling not the bland pap you get in yer actual diners, but sharp and tart as a scold.

It reminds me of Long Island's shortlived cult diner M Wells, which prided itself on the eye-popping richness of its offerings (foie gras, grilled cheese, horse bologna sarnie, anyone?)

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All you have to do is head towards Portobello Road, West London, and find yourself sat in the gloriously comfortable leather booths of the Electric Diner.

Providing a brilliant array of dishes that your taste buds seem to anticipate just from staring at the menu, the newly-opened Electric Diner combines the comforts of the traditional American diner with a French underground edge.

The Croque Monsieur-esque ham and cheese fondue gets a special mention.

Electric Diner, 191 Portobello Road London W11 2ED is open from 8am for ‘Breakfast’, 12pm onwards for the ‘All Day Menu’, and is open until 1am at the weekend.

For more information visit the Electric Diner website here.

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With its unfinished brick and concrete walls, low lighting, french grey-painted plank ceiling, red leather banquettes and lively open kitchen down one side, evoking a sort of chic US railway car diner, the spot easily delivers on atmosphere.

The hip vibe extends to the menu, which features artery-unfriendly American classics: cheeseburgers (which arrives in a pretentious presentation on a small plate with a sharp knife sticking out of it like a sinister birthday candle), hot dogs, milkshakes (pleasantly creamy, sensibly sized).

But each classic dish is well-thought-out and composed of good ingredients: French fries are thin and crispy, but made of flavourful potatoes, even a simple bibb lettuce and avocado salad was enlivened with finely chopped chives and tarragon, so it actually tasted of something.

The Diner gets extra points for having a children’s menu with healthy, tasty food: salmon and broccoli was a great relief to a refined diner of modest age who tires easily of the frozen fish fingers foisted upon her elsewhere.

Desserts are a must-have: a slice of classic lemon meringue pie was as big as Texas, and as bold.