Permit Room Lodgings

Rest your head

A serene city pad above a Bombay boozer on London’s Portobello Road.

Two en-suite bedrooms

One living room

Sleeps up to four

Sleep in, eat well, drink deep

A damn good place to stay

Upstairs from Permit Room Portobello: two ensuite bedrooms and a living room, for lounging. The Lodgings are filled with Bombay eccentricities and Portobello charm – it’s like staying at a fancy friend’s place, above a Bombay boozer.

Sleeps up to four. The whole top floor – yours from £700 per night. Come for at least two nights, stay as long as a week. Now taking bookings until the end of the year. Get in touch to plan your stay.

Above Permit Room

Top-floor living

A serene city pad for sleeping, lounging, feasting. Come with friends, kids or pups in tow. Spin records, thumb handpicked books and magazines. Bathe in sunlight, gaze at the art. Portobello Market and easy access to the best of the rest of the capital, just outside. Bombay dreams upstairs. All-day bar-café downstairs.

Sleep in:

We make your beds. Come lie in them. King-sized and custom-made with pillowy white sheets for long, deep sleeps. Dream, breathe, laze like a sophisticate or ready yourself at the dressing tables. Blackout curtains and sound-proofed windows make rest easy.

Eat well:

Roll out of bed to breakfast in your living room. Breakfast Naan Rolls, Permit Room French Toast, Crumpety Eggs Kejriwal and more. All-day-deliciousness – a staircase away, your table at Permit Room is always on-hand. Picky-snacky-crispy savouries. Delicious salads. Hearty Ruby Murrays and Dishoom faves.

Drink deep:

Sip morning lassis, Marmalade Mimosas and locally roasted brews from Deluxe Coffeeworks. Mix cocktails from the in-room cabinet. Or call down. Stronger drinks, cool-crisp Kingfisher beer towers, and complimentary chai – come up.

Head out:

Find Portobello gems with our local neighbourhood guide. Take a short walk to Ladbroke Grove or Notting Hill station for access to some of the city’s top spots. Soho, King’s Cross, Shoreditch, Paddington and more – all one speedy tube trip away.

Play-it-again vinyl

In the Lodgings, a turntable and the nicest vinyl. Pour a cocktail, drop the pin and tap toes. The Clash, Prince, Joy Crookes, early Indian electronica. A record for every hour and every ear, all handpicked by us and our neighbour, Rough Trade West. Bring your own tunes to the party by connecting to the soundbar (tap into our Permit Room playlist, too).

Above: Comfy sofas and rattan armchairs.

Above: Mix cocktails from the in-room cabinet.

Above: In the Lodgings, a turntable and the nicest vinyl.

Above: Custom-made, king-sized beds with pillows galore and crisp white sheets for deep sleeps.

Above: Large walk-in waterfall shower.

Above: Breakfast at the dining table.

Above: Mauli Rituals products for top moments of vanity.

Above: Slip into a soft waffle bathrobe and pad about in puffy slippers.

Above: A top-to-toe Bombay dressing table for dressy bits.

Above: Get down to the serious business of lounging.

Above: We make your beds. Come lie in them.

Above: Comfy sofas and rattan armchairs.

Above: Mix cocktails from the in-room cabinet.

Above: In the Lodgings, a turntable and the nicest vinyl.

Above: Custom-made, king-sized beds with pillows galore and crisp white sheets for deep sleeps.

Above: Large walk-in waterfall shower.

Above: Breakfast at the dining table.

Above: Mauli Rituals products for top moments of vanity.

Above: Slip into a soft waffle bathrobe and pad about in puffy slippers.

Above: A top-to-toe Bombay dressing table for dressy bits.

Above: Get down to the serious business of lounging.

Above: We make your beds. Come lie in them.

Above: A painter of stories

Between the lines

Parvez Rustomjee

Dabbler in music. Lover of love. Painter of stories. Inside the Lodgings, it’s all him – the old and the new. In an exclusive interview, Parvez shares his story, from Bombay to Portobello.

“The Sir J.J. School of Art in Bombay was glorious, I was creating every day. My hands were busy. My heart was busy. My liver was busy. The nights were a haze. … But before London I didn’t know what ‘me’ fully meant. Once here I felt liberated. … after every gig, 3am we’d stumble back to my flat, picking up friendly faces along the way. Models, musicians, writers, photographers, artists. The whole lot. We once even had a mathematician! I’m certain my partner at the time hated me. They definitely put up with a lot.”

Read the full story

The walls of the Lodgings are home to stare-worthy South Asian Art, curated by our friend and LA gallerist, Rajiv Menon. Laze away the day gazing at impressionistic brushstrokes, pop aesthetics and self-portraits – the mythic layered with the mundane. Read more from Rajiv about the creatives behind these works of art.

Above: Mustafa Mohsin’s work skews realist, but also finds a sense of magic and mythic through art history. His pieces bend time in an intriguing, dreamy way.

Above: Ahsan Javaid is a Lahore-based painter interested in the intersection of storytelling and the way that grand narratives always hover over the surface of our lives.

Above: Tarini Sethi’s figures are rooted in fantasy and history, while also retaining very human, contemporary quirks. Her vision is futurist (with a touch of magical realism).

Above: Through Maya Varadaraj’s paintings, one experiences all the warmth and love you feel sitting with family, swapping tall tales.

Above: Joya Mukerjee Logue’s work examines the mythic power of memory, layering experiences from her family home in Ambala with her own as a second-generation immigrant in Ohio.

Above: Nibha Akireddy thinks about where the mythic and real intersect when it comes to the body. South Indian films are a major source of her mythology, and she transforms and elevates a specific pop aesthetic to think about her own life.

Above: Mustafa Mohsin’s work skews realist, but also finds a sense of magic and mythic through art history. His pieces bend time in an intriguing, dreamy way.

Above: Ahsan Javaid is a Lahore-based painter interested in the intersection of storytelling and the way that grand narratives always hover over the surface of our lives.

Above: Tarini Sethi’s figures are rooted in fantasy and history, while also retaining very human, contemporary quirks. Her vision is futurist (with a touch of magical realism).

Above: Through Maya Varadaraj’s paintings, one experiences all the warmth and love you feel sitting with family, swapping tall tales.

Above: Joya Mukerjee Logue’s work examines the mythic power of memory, layering experiences from her family home in Ambala with her own as a second-generation immigrant in Ohio.

Above: Mustafa Mohsin’s work skews realist, but also finds a sense of magic and mythic through art history. His pieces bend time in an intriguing, dreamy way.

Above: Ahsan Javaid is a Lahore-based painter interested in the intersection of storytelling and the way that grand narratives always hover over the surface of our lives.

Above: Tarini Sethi’s figures are rooted in fantasy and history, while also retaining very human, contemporary quirks. Her vision is futurist (with a touch of magical realism).

Above: Through Maya Varadaraj’s paintings, one experiences all the warmth and love you feel sitting with family, swapping tall tales.

Above: Joya Mukerjee Logue’s work examines the mythic power of memory, layering experiences from her family home in Ambala with her own as a second-generation immigrant in Ohio.