After our lunch in Notting Hill, we wandered through Portobello Road, which is the prime shopping district in the neighborhood, filled with all manner of antique shops, booksellers, secondhand shops, kebab shops and posh boutiques. Portobello (not named for the fungus) is famous for its weekend outdoor market, with stalls stretching for blocks. It is such an institution that there are painted areas marked out on the street for the weekend stalls. Unfortunately, there wasn't much by way of the market today, but we enjoyed walking along the streets and exploring the shops, including two of Suzie's favorites in the neighborhood: Books for Cooks (guess what they sell) and The Spice Shop.
No pictures of the bookstore, but here are a few of the spice shop. You could smell the heady aroma of the spice shop from well down the street, and the extensive spectrum of exotic spices and other flavorants was a whirlwind tour of the world's cuisines in 100 square feet of shop space.
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