Facilities
Kensington has excellent shopping facilities along Kensington High Street as well. Food shopping is good down North End Road where most of the area's supermarkets can be found. It is best known for North End Market, open every day bar Sunday, and interspersed with clothing, musical and electronic goods between its dominating theme of fruit and vegetables.

Kensington is a district of so many and is blessed with a wide variety of restaurants. Restaurant cultures to make themselves known here include Chinese, Italian, Indian, American, Lebanese, Spanish, French and Ethiopian.

West Kensington is well known for the Kensington Olympia Exhibition centre, where many and varied exhibitions that attract thousands of visitors each year.

After the Olympia, W14 must be best known for the Queens Club. Founded in 1886 Three clubs are based here, the British Tennis Foundation, Real Tennis & Racket and the Queens Club.

Transport
There is no shortage of buses here and tubes are equally well represented. To the north the Central Line appears at Shepherds Bush and Holland Park. The District and Piccadilly Lines turn up at Earls Court (with the branch to Wimbledon), West Kensington and Barons Court.

Olympia, of course, has its own tube station run on restricted services at appropriate times but also features on a railway line running from Rugby in the north to Brighton in the south, taking in Gatwick Airport, Clapham Junction and Milton Keynes.