There is a lovely view overlooking Portobello Road so you can check out the market right from your room! With a 3 Course Set Christmas Menu as well as a Feasting Menu and Small Plates Menu for larger groups, your guests will be sure to have a meal to set the festive period with decadence. You’ll be lubricated by a multitude of our favourite gin cocktails along the way before leaving the session with a bottle of your own personal blend to take home and enjoy. Also sign me up for newsletters so I can get special offers, recommendations, and expert advice to my inbox!

miles) from Ladbroke Grove which is on the Hammersmith and City and Cirlce lines and a 14 minute walk (0. When you come in, you can find your new favourite bottle at our tasting counter, hire glasses, flutes and chiller bins free* and pick up some ice.Sessions last approximately 3 hours and you will need to bring your voucher with you on the day to redeem entry to your session. Taking the idea of a gin for the King of Corsica as our jumping off point we decided to create a gin inspired by the botanicals of Corsica and the surrounding Mediterranean area.

A menu of quintessential British dishes all created with local ingredients, with a selection of mouth-watering nibbles, small plates and larger main dishes. Our highly acclaimed and awarded Ginstitute experience allows you to learn more about the rich and frequently miserable history of gin and come and create your own bespoke recipe gin brand to take away. Nestled above a 19th century drinking den on the world famous Portobello Road, London's premiere gin-making experience, The Ginstitute opened. Having made your selections, your Gin Instructor will now assist you in blending the various distilled botanicals together to create your completely unique recipe. In the mouth hits bright and vibrant, again with a nice dry finish, perhaps a little less spicy in flavour than some of the other gins but still with that lingering nutmeg heat, and like with the navy strength that tint hit of salt leaves you wanting more and the green olive gives us a lingering sense of dryness.

For something born on a whim, Portobello Road Gin has quickly established itself as a favourite amongst connoisseur consumers, bartenders and gin fans everywhere.

There will be a Tom Collins ready and waiting for you to enjoy and your host will then explain to the group the format of the next few hours, if you’ve read this you can just ignore them. It was here that, after discovering the lay of the distilling land and nine months of experimentation, Portobello Road Gin was born. We offer a wide range of plates that are accomodated to those with specific allergies or dietary restrictions. While Portobello Road Gin does some nice things with its nutmeg, cassia, coriander and licorice botanicals— I can’t help but feel that it tastes a bit dated. To wash this down with, we'll also provide Fever-Tree tonic as well as our ready to drink Portobello Road Gin and Tonic in a can.Head upstairs to The Malt Floor, our cocktail lounge serivng innovative cocktails using different whiskies and gins from around the world. Book to stay with us and enjoy our classic but eclectic rooms with their unparalleled views of Portobello Road, listen to our Rough Trade-curated vinyl playlists on the record player and sip sharing Martinis between the sheets. If you have a severe allergy or strict dietary restriction please contact us ahead of time and let us know at 02030342233. Now it is time to get a little more hands on and noses on as well, as you will be given a tutored tasting and nosing of the botanicals that are available to you, some will be familiar to you from the worlds of cuisine, perfume and confectionary, others less so. Once just a museum, now one of the world’s premier gin educational attractions— naturally, they needed to have a gin.

It was here that, after 9 months of experimentation, Portobello Road Gin was born; a timeless and versatile London Dry that salutes the distillers of the past. Once each of the guests present has created and received their blend of gin you'll all be given one last cocktail, usually a Martini if you’re feeling up to it, and we’ll also present you with 2 miniature bottles of our personal blend to take away, which of course went on to become Portobello Road Gin. On the nose, this gin is exactly what you’d expect from both the name, the packaging and the list of botanicals, it’s still clearly gin, lots of juniper lots of citrus, but it is those delightful herbal notes from the basil and particularly the rosemary. Especially when reviewing a gin form the early Gin Renaissance that we’ve not had in for review until now.Let us know if we need instructions for where to find your house or want us to leave your wine in the shed!