A Lonsdale Road cocktail room that helped define London's mixology revival in the 2000s.
Published Nov 4, 2025 By Sofia Reeves Last reviewed Dec 27, 2025 · How we pick bars Address 48 Lonsdale Road, Notting Hill, London W11 2DE Nearest Transit Notting Hill Gate and Westbourne Park, both around a 10 minute walk Status Permanently closed (verified Jun 2026) Good For Cocktail history, Notting Hill nostalgia, Classic mixology Classic cocktails Notting Hill Mixology Closed History Editor Review Our Take on The Lonsdale The Lonsdale ran on a quiet residential stretch of Lonsdale Road in Notting Hill, a cocktail bar that mattered well beyond its postcode. Through the 2000s it was one of the rooms that pushed London's cocktail revival forward, with a serious approach to classic mixology and a reputation for hospitality that drinks writers kept returning to.
The draw was the bar program. Difford's Guide and Social and Cocktail both logged it as a destination for properly made drinks rather than a neighborhood afterthought, the kind of room that trained bartenders who went on to open their own places.
The bar is now closed. This profile stays live as a record of where it sat in the city's cocktail story. For where to drink now, see our best bars in Notting Hill guide and the London cocktail bar guide.
The space leaned on a curved, decorative interior that listings of the era singled out as part of the appeal, a step up in design from the pubs around it. It read as a dedicated cocktail room rather than a bar bolted onto a kitchen.
Its position on a calm Notting Hill side street, away from the main road, gave it the feel of a find. That sense of a tucked-away destination was a big part of why it stuck in drinkers' memories.