Mentioned as one of Gilberto Gil's favourite shops in “London, London”: Brazil’s Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil in exile – Part 3 on The World Elsewhere blog
Caetano Veloso’s and Gilberto Gil’s "Towards the northern
end of Portobello Road there were shops selling records of
West Indian, and Caribbean-style, music.
(Then, as now, the Portobello Road had markedly different
characters. The southern end largely consisted of antique shops
and stalls; the northern end was “the sleaziest, most druggy”
section, according to Howard Marks, the celebratory hash
smuggler and dealer who at this time was living in
Lansdowne Crescent.) Gil enjoyed browsing for records, with one
of his favourite shops being the incense-infused “Forbidden Fruit”
(at 295, between Oxford and Cambridge Gardens, just north of the
Westway), a place commonly known as “the Afghan shop” because,
in addition to music, it sold clothes and hippyish bric-a-brac."
