The Princess Royal Pub & Boutique Hotel Notting Hill

You're on Hereford Road, that bit of Notting Hill that actually feels like somewhere people live rather than somewhere they're performing living. The Princess Royal does the whole thing — downstairs is a proper local pub where you can nurse a pint and eat actual food, upstairs are the boutique rooms if you've had one too many or just fancy staying over. It's got that lived-in charm, wood-panelled walls, the sort of place where regulars know the staff and tourists stumble in pleasantly surprised. The food isn't pretentious but it's done right, and the rooms are boutique in the sense that they're actually nice rather than just expensive.