S & M Cafe, Notting Hill, London

A good place to take foreign friends when visiting Portobello Market. They serve all sorts of delicious sausages with mash and gravy, do veggie alternative and do pies as well. Not cheap sausage and mash but worth it. Don’t go here if you’re on a diet. Very warm and steamy in the winter, so good to escape to on a cold day. gets very busy at the weekends. Quirky old-fashioned decor.

This place aside from its array of sausage and mash, does the best breakfast around! Whether you want boiled eggs and soldiers, kippers or a good old fashioned full english, this is the place. Comfort food at its best.

I love the concept of this place… The sausages juicy and mash creamy, just like it should be. S&M are also doing their bit for the ‘Great British Grub’ industry by supporting local and sustainable food sources. Specialising in the obivious, doesn’t mean that’s all they serve but the menu can be confusing and a much needed reworked version will lauch in a couple of weeks.

Décor is reminiscent of old English diners and there’s a pleasant, buzzing vibe in the evening. Only criticism on appearance, is that the upmarket cafe could do with a spruce, a lick of paint and a bit more thought put into what goes on the walls.

I was disappointed when I found out the S&M Cafe was a chain, but luckily it doesn’t show. the perfect place to crawl into for a dose of comfort food on a rainy Sunday afternoon. suitable for carnivores and veggies alike. nothing more to add, the others have said it all before - actually, they usually play a really good mix of music, too.

The Sausage and Mash Cafe has been sitting here under the Westway flyover on Portobello Road for what seems like forever, as the decor certainly pays testament to. Far from being detrimental, this only serves to make this palace of comfort food even more cosy, and a very welcome place on the stormiest and most dismal winter nights. Ignore Time Out’s recent declaration of S&M as ‘tired’, they are still serving the damned good sausage and mash that people come here for year after year. Every day there are different special sausages, such as wild boar, and vegetarians are amply catered for. You will choose your type of sausage, mash and gravy, so there is plenty of scope for mixing things up and bit. Each table has what seems like most of its surface area taken up by an absurd variety of English and French mustards, all of which are amazing!

I think if the S&M Cafe did not exist, I would not be able to survive winter in London. Thank goodness it does!

this place has everything you want if you are tired, hungover or simply need some good no-nonsense food to warm your cockles! always delicious, nice big portions of hearty food at a very reasonable price. in contrast to other portobello hang outs, s & m is unpretentious and does exactly what it says on the tin!