This informative neighbourhood guide provides a snapshot of Queen’s Park, a desirable enclave in North West London. At its heart lies the Victorian Park itself, a leafy landmark that gives the neighbourhood its name. Salusbury Road functions as the lively high street, lined with pubs, restaurants, and the weekly Farmer’s Market. The highlight, Lonsdale Road Mews, has become a destination for cafés, eateries, and wellness studios. The area attracts those seeking a more relaxed pace, where food and wellbeing take priority over shopping. With Australian-style brunches, Middle Eastern flatbreads, French rotisserie chicken, and a Sunday farmers’ market, it’s the kind of place you visit to socialise and recharge.
Best Things To Do In Queen’s Park
The neighbourhood’s crown jewel is Queen’s Park, a 30-acre Victorian green space that attracts both locals and visitors. The Park features tennis courts, a bandstand, a pitch-and-putt golf course, a children’s playground with a paddling pool, a small petting farm, and a quiet garden. The park café is known for its excellent bread baked on-site and hearty daily dishes such as lamb tagine or vegetable couscous.
Tempo Golf, on Lonsdale Road, offers indoor golf with modern simulators and coaching. Players can play on over 250 world-class courses, practice at high-tech ranges, and review their swings with video and data feedback. The venue also features a café and bar, making it as much a social spot as a training centre. The Roasting Party serves coffee, which you can enjoy while lazing out front in the deckchairs.
Wellness is at the heart of life in Queen’s Park, with studios and spas providing space to exercise and relax. Yogarise on Beethoven Street offers everything from gentle Yin yoga to hot classes and reformer Pilates. Absolute Studios on Lonsdale Road specialises in its Dynamic Reformer method, which combines Pilates with strength training. The Hearth on Lonsdale Road is a women’s space where you can use co-working facilities, book wellness treatments, and participate in various events. For a bit of pampering, head to Somewhere in Queen’s Park, located on Lonsdale Road, for hair and beauty treatments. These venues highlight the neighbourhood’s focus on balance and wellbeing alongside its food and green spaces.
Best Places To Eat and Drink In Queen’s Park
On Salusbury Road, the atmosphere is relaxed and friendly. Begin your day at Café Jack’s with a full English breakfast, French toast, or American-style pancakes. Bob’s Café offers brunches that gently extend into the afternoon before making way for burgers, tacos, and poke bowls. Cocotte is another place for a weekend bottomless brunch and their French-style rotisserie chicken.
Sushi enthusiasts head to Michiko Sushino, where fresh nigiri, sashimi, ramen, and donburi are prepared with skill. The Salusbury provides an elegant Sunday roast, and Alice House offers a cosy setting for cocktails and craft beer. There’s always the chippy, Mr Fish, for take-home comfort food.
Lonsdale Road Mews has an entirely different atmosphere; it’s intimate, tucked away, and lively from breakfast to dinner. Don’t Tell Dad tempts with irresistible pastries and inventive lunches.
Milk Beach offers a taste of Australia with its speciality coffee, natural wines, and creative brunch dishes.
Pyrá continues the fire theme with Greek-style grilled meats, dips, and flatbreads, all complemented by decadent desserts like Basque cheesecake. Carmel celebrates the flavours of the Eastern Mediterranean, with its open-fire kitchen creating everything from fabulous flatbreads and shakshuka to shawarma. You’ll also find Pizza Pilgrims on Lonsdale Road.
For drinks, head to the Wolfpack, a bar located inside a garage, where you can sample rotating craft beers and interesting wines in an industrial, rustic setting.
Best Places To Shop In Queen’s Park
While Queen’s Park isn’t a central retail hub, it hosts a farmers’ market every Sunday that’s renowned as one of the best in London. It’s the spot to pick up organic vegetables, artisan bread, British cheeses, flowers, and pantry staples, all while enjoying street food. For quality food during the week, try Planet Organic.
Everyday life depends on independent shops, including a local bookshop, a florist, a fashion boutique, art framers/gallery, and DIY stores.
My favourite shop, Wilder Botanics, located on Lonsdale Road, is a calming retreat that offers teas, tinctures, and skincare products rooted in naturopathy, made with natural and wild-crafted ingredients.
Helpful Information About Queen’s Park
Queen’s Park is located on the border between the City of Westminster and the Borough of Brent. It is bordered by Maida Vale and St John’s Wood to the east, Kilburn and Paddington to the south, Kensal Rise to the west, and Willesden and Brondesbury Park to the north. Despite its village-like atmosphere, central London is nearby; Oxford Circus is about 15 minutes away on the Bakerloo line. Queen’s Park Station serves the area on Salusbury Road, which offers fast and convenient transport links via the Bakerloo line and London Overground.
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Ten Best Things To Do In Queen’s Park London NW6
Author: Homegirl London. Photographs: Homegirl London. To avoid disappointment, please check that the places I referenced in this article are still in business before you visit.