Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London.

Before about 1850, it was little more than a country lane connecting Portobello Farm with Kensal Green in the north and what is today Notting Hill in the south.

The road ultimately took form piecemeal in the second half of the 19th century, nestling between the large new residential developments of Paddington and Notting Hill.

Its shops and markets thrived on serving the wealthy inhabitants of the elegant crescents and terraces that sprang up around it, and its working-class residents found employment in the immediate vicinity as construction workers, domestic servants, coachmen, messengers, tradesmen and costermongers.

Its architecture is characterised by meandering roads and curving streets, in contrast to the more formally planned layout of most of the nearby area.

About one third of the way from its north end, the market runs beneath adjacent bridges of the A40 road and the Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground.

In 2006, the 20-minute documentary Portobello: Attack of the Clones won London awards and was screened a number of times at the infamous Electric Cinema.

[12] The musical is available for licensing through Samuel French, Inc.[13] The Portobello Road features prominently in Martin Amis's 1989 satirical novel London Fields.

In the short story "Different Skies" by China Miéville, the protagonist buys an eerie coloured window pane in Portobello Road Market.

The B-side of British Singer-Songwriter Cat Stevens' 1966 single "I Love My Dog" is titled "Portobello Road" and discusses a walk through the famous street and market.

It is also referenced in the song "Blue Jeans" by alternative rock band Blur, from the 1993 album Modern Life Is Rubbish, in which the opening lyrics are: "Air cushioned soles, I bought them on the Portobello Road on a Saturday."

In Caetano Veloso's "Nine Out Of Ten" song from the 1972 album Transa, he sings "walk down Portobello Road to the sound of reggae".

David Gilmour's song "Sing" on his 2024 Luck & Strange album contains the lyric: "Found a lifetime ago, Down the Portobello Road, Lovers' snapshots of delight, Those rosy days of black and white.".

In the Only Fools and Horses episode "Cash and Curry", conmen use a statue of Kubera they bought from Portobello Road to deceive Del Boy and Rodney Trotter.

BBC One's daytime antiques-based gameshow Bargain Hunt regularly features contestants buying items at the market to sell later at auction.