If you want the vision of Hugh Grant strolling through the market stalls, greeting all of the locals, picking up his mid-morning caffeine fix to become a reality, head to Notting Hill Farmers' Market. Find everything from wild mushrooms, fresh pastas, chutneys, cheeses, local honey, bouquets to fresh fruit and veg.

Greek food, but not quite as you know it – lunch at Mazi kicks off with mini jars of tarama dusted in bottarga powder and smoked aubergine with tahini and thyme honey. The Greek salad is topped with barley rusks and itty-bitty crumbs of creamy feta, and the wine list is a discerning, patriotic list of little-known Greek bottles. A table in the courtyard garden out back is a summer evening winner after a drink outside The Hillgate pub. If there are no tables at Mazi, try sibling restaurant Suzi Tros down the street.

What began as the Electric Palace way back when in 1911, is still a thriving cultural hub in the form of a single-screen cinema. Check out their agenda for the latest art-house movies.