Cinema

Coronet Cinema
103 Notting Hill Gate, W11
Website: www.coronet.org Underground: Notting Hill Gate
Housed in a beautiful grand old building, this cinema makes a change from the usual multiplexes. Shows mainstream films. Monday nights are student nights, and Tuesdays are half price for everyone - that's a movie for only £3.50! Bargain!

Electric Cinema
191 Portobello Road, W11
Website: www.electriccinema.co.uk Underground: Notting Hill Gate
Refurbished a few years ago to all its former glory, this comfortable cinema (leather seats!) shows a mixture of current box-office hits and older movies. Try to book the one of the two 2-seater sofas for the ultimate viewing experience, and you can "lie down with a bottle of wine" as my colleague once said. They have parent and baby screenings on Mondays.

The Gate Cinema
87 Notting Hill Gate, W11
Website: www.picturehouses.co.uk/site/cinemas/gate/local.htm Underground: Notting Hill Gate
Beautiful cinema with incredibly comfy seats, this is what it should be like everywhere! Shows world cinema-type films.

Close to Notting Hill
Odeon Kensington
High Street Kensington, W8
Website: www.odeon.co.uk Underground: High Street Kensington
6 screens, shows mainstream movies.

UCI Whiteleys
Whiteleys, Queensway, W2
Website: www.uci.co.uk Underground: Bayswater or Queensway
8-screen cinema in the Whiteleys shopping complex showing mainstream blockbusters.