Empanada Shop Near Me on Golborne Road: De Nadas Notting Hill

De Nadas sells 15 kinds of baked, hand-shaped Argentine empanadas from 61 Golborne Road, W10 5NR, the shop that opened in summer 2022 as what the trade press called London's first empanadería. A box of three starts at £10.25, the counter opens at 9am on Fridays and Saturdays and 10am the rest of the week, and there is a pavement terrace facing the street. For anyone in North Kensington looking for an empanada shop near me, this is the original of what is now a five-shop London group.

Restaurant Online reported in June 2022 that De Nadas was founded in 2021 by Nico Buyo and Ñako Martinez. Buyo is Argentinian and had cooked for more than 20 years in Buenos Aires, Madrid and London; Martinez comes from Madrid and spent his earlier career in music, including a spell as editor of Kerrang! Spain. The plan from day one was a room built around empanadas alone, with a wine list heavy on Malbec and vermouth rather than a full Argentine grill menu.

Golborne Road came first. Shoreditch followed in 2023, Stoke Newington Church Street in 2024 and a 2,000 sq ft kitchen in a Bethnal Green railway arch in January 2025, which replaced the original central kitchen behind this shop. Co-founder Annabel Fox said at the time that the group was producing about 25,000 empanadas a month. A fifth shop has since opened beside Kew Gardens station.

Every empanada is baked rather than fried and shaped by hand, and each filling gets its own fold or braid so the staff can tell them apart in the warmer. The Classic Beef follows the Argentine pattern: minced beef with peppers, olives, egg, spring onion and ají molido chilli flakes. Creamy Chicken uses roast chicken in béchamel, Spicy Lamb brings garlic and paprika, and the Chorizo pairs Spanish sausage with tomato and mozzarella.

The vegetarian side is where De Nadas departs from tradition. Blue Cheese and Pear is the filling Google reviewers mention most after beef, and Smoked Malbec layers smoked cheddar with onions caramelised in red wine. Humita is the northern Argentine sweetcorn version, Palmito pairs palm hearts with salsa golf, and Squash and Kale is the vegan option. One reviewer this summer admitted they came in planning three and ordered three more.

The shop's own website lists boxes from £10.25 for three, £19.95 for six, £29.50 for nine and £38 for twelve, with the larger boxes working out cheapest per piece for a group. Homemade chimichurri is sold by the pot from £2.90, alfajores biscuits filled with dulce de leche are £3.50 each, and the house Malbec, A Time for Malbec, is listed from £16 a bottle. Coffee and vermouth are served at the counter, and the shelves double as a small deli for dulce de leche and yerba mate.

The company also sells boxes to reheat at home, which is the most useful option if you are buying for a party: the site describes eat-in, takeaway or a box to heat up later as the three ways to buy, and the group caters offices with vegan, halal and dairy-free fillings. If you take a box away, ask the counter which fold is which before you leave, because the shapes are the only label.

The Notting Hill shop is one of two branches with a Vinyl Wine Room, a small back room with records and a turntable that seats up to ten people for wine and empanada tastings. It is booked through the team by email at hello@denadas.co.uk rather than offered as walk-in seating, so treat it as a birthday or small-group plan. For a casual visit, the front tables and the terrace the owners promoted in April 2026 are where you will sit.

Weekday late mornings are the quiet stretch, shortly after the 10am opening, when the warmer is fully stocked and the lunch trade has not started. The busiest window is Friday and Saturday, when the Golborne Road street market runs and Portobello Road shoppers drift north. Visitors who leave Google reviews range from local regulars greeted by the owner to tourists who wandered over from the Portobello antiques.

An honest call: skip the MDQ, a ham, pineapple, mozzarella and béchamel filling, unless you already love Hawaiian pizza; most first-timers get more out of the beef and the blue cheese with pear. And do not order a box of twelve for two people on the spot; the empanadas are rich, and three each with a glass of Malbec is plenty.

On a crowded Saturday, take a box of three to go and eat on the benches near the canal path at the end of the road, or use the shop's own online ordering, which promises delivery within an hour across much of London.

Turn right out of the door and Golborne Road runs straight toward Trellick Tower, Ernő Goldfinger's 31-storey concrete block completed in 1972, which fills the view at the eastern end of the street. Turn the other way and you reach Portobello Road within a few minutes, where the north end of the market is quieter than the antiques stretch further south. The Grand Union Canal towpath passes just beyond the tower if you want a flat walk after lunch.

Address: De Nadas Empanadas, 61 Golborne Road, London W10 5NR. Hours on Google Maps: Monday to Thursday 10am to 8pm, Friday and Saturday 9am to 9pm, Sunday 10am to 8pm. Nearest stations: Westbourne Park and Ladbroke Grove on the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines, each roughly a ten-minute walk. Dietary: vegan, vegetarian and halal options are offered, according to the group's catering page. To line up a second stop nearby, ask Karpo in the Karpo APP for coffee or a bakery on Golborne Road.