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A new addition to the Golborne Road café and restaurant scene appeared last summer – Viva. The eyecatching shopfront includes a basket of fruit, very appropriate since Viva serves freshly made juices and smoothies
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For delicious and authentic Spanish food, you need look no further than an old Golborne favourite, the Galicia. Walk into the restaurant’s bar at the front, and you could imagine you’d stepped straight into a bar in Spain
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Portfolio first opened in 1981 as a photographic gallery on Portobello Road and Jayne Diggory opened Portfolio at 105 Golborne Road some 20 years ago selling a beguiling range of cards and gifts
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New shop Constructive Lives arrived with a splash of bright colour on the corner of Portobello and Golborne Roads last October. Clocks, maps, phones, Trellick mugs (a top seller) – they’re all there and they all have a quirky style of their own
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Sam Harley has been running the Cloth Shop at 290 Portobello Road for 17 years. His stock includes antique Swedish rag rugs, Indian silk shawls and cashmere blankets
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Myriam Vanergas took over the hairdressing salon at 280 Golborne Road eight months ago and she runs a friendly neighbourhood hairdresser, offering stylish cuts at affordable prices
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Reg Thackeray has been running Clarke’s, and living above it, for 31 years. The shop has an extraordinary collection of novelty goods, toys and memorabilia
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Originally from Morocco, Omar Serroukh has lived in London since 1986 and he’s been running his shop Fez, at 71 Golborne Road, for the last ten years
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Haroon Amin has been running the Golborne Pharmacy, partnered by his wife, Nelly, for the last three years. It’s a friendly local chemist which offers a personalised service to its customers
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Dave Lucas has been running his antique shop, 88 Antiques which, amazingly, is at 88 Golborne Road, for the last 30 years
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At Courier Systems' Kensal Road offices, you don't find a scruffy little room with four blokes shouting down radios. Instead, you step into a large open-plan office with giant plasma screens, and around 40 people engrossed in their work
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Abdussalam Shalluf, originally from Tripoli in Libya, has been running Portobello Dry Cleaners for the last four years. During that time, he’s built an enviable reputation for a quality and friendly service.
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Maramia Café is a new place on Golborne road to get excellent, freshly prepared food at very reasonable price
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Dave Pitt and Tina Alkaff are the hosts at the Inn on the Green, a performance centre, art gallery and restaurant above the Portobello Green Fitness Centre on Thorpe Close
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