A four-floor gin house on Portobello Road, home to Portobello Road Gin, the GinTonica bar, and the Ginstitute distilling experience.
The Distillery sits at 186 Portobello Road in Notting Hill, a four-floor gin house built around Portobello Road Gin and run by the team behind the neighbouring Portobello Star. Each floor has its own bar, plus a small gin hotel and a working distillery upstairs.
Come for gin in every form, from a precise GinTonica to a cocktail flight, and stay for the Ginstitute, a blending class that sends you home with your own bottle. Skip it if gin is not your thing, because the whole building is built around the spirit.
The building runs four floors. The ground-floor GinTonica bar pours Spanish-style gin and tonics, the Resting Room above is the quieter cocktail lounge, and the Ginstitute distilling room sits at the top with copper stills on show.
Tripadvisor reviewers single out the Ginstitute experience as the reason to visit, with the bottle you blend yourself the takeaway souvenir.
Order a GinTonica built around Portobello Road No. 171, the house gin distilled on Portobello Road since 2011. Cocktails land around thirteen pounds, fair for Notting Hill.
Book the Ginstitute if you want the full story. Time Out lists the experience as a guided journey through gin's history that ends with you blending and bottling your own.
The crowd is a mix of Portobello Road browsers, gin enthusiasts booked onto the Ginstitute, and locals who treat the GinTonica bar as a neighbourhood stop.
What to order
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A GinTonica with Portobello Road No. 171
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A gin cocktail in the Resting Room
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The Ginstitute blending experience
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A bottle of the house gin to take home
