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Prompted by a feature in last week’s Sunday Times Magazine, which mentioned Lutyens & Rubinstein<\/a> on Kensington Park Road, I thought I’d have an amble round Portobello Road and the surrounding area today to try and convey what it’s like from a regular visitor.<\/p>\n

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As mentioned, Lutyens & Rubenstein (12 Kensington Park Road) is one of a number of very fine specialist bookshops in Notting Hill, with others including The Travel Bookshop<\/a> (13-15 Blenheim Crescent) and Books For Cooks<\/a> (4 Blenheim Crescent). Whilst there, I had to stop off at a wonderful newsagent at 12 Blenheim Crescent called Rococo, which sells an absolutely amazing number of foreign titles. Even today’s edition of The New York Times was there!<\/div>\n
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Portobello Road Market was as busy as always with the usual array of items that it sells, plus some bits and pieces that you can pick up for Christmas – including door wreaths for \u00a35, which I thought was pretty good value.<\/div>\n
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Walking up further north on Portobello Road, at its intersection with Golborne Road, I encountered a number of food stalls selling rather amazing-looking Moroccan food – one of my favourite cuisines! There was one stall selling all manner of grilled fish dishes, including sea bass, for \u00a36.50. I was very tempted to indulge, but the long queues at each stall (which obviously shows the quality of the food) meant I decided to carry on with my walk.<\/div>\n
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Then I stumbled across an ideal store for me – Portobello Pet Shop (308 Portobello Road). As a cat owner (and feeder of the bird visitors to my garden) it’s the kind of place where I can stock up on plenty of things I need! However, I jokingly enquired instore about whether they had anything for “fussy cats”. “Yes, of course” was the reply – and handed a bag of cat biscuits that is actually labelled “for very fussy eaters”. Who would have thought! I was very happy to also find a packet of seeds for robins, which will also no doubt please the most frequent visitor to my garden – a very pretty brown pigeon that we’ve named Jessica. Far more confident that she used to be in battling the other birds for food, I’m sure she’ll enjoy it!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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