Introducing: The Gobble Downer
Everyone has to eat, right? Even svelte Mrs Kentishtowner, who fears that one day she’ll be visible from the moon. (Her mantra? ‘Thank God that dog won’t walk itself.’) Anyway, we digress. Today sees...
View ArticleDon’t Cry For Me, O Martini
‘Perhaps,’ I wondered, ‘she was an illusion?’ ‘More likely,’ said Mrs Kentishtowner, ‘she was a portent of our impending doom.’ No, we weren’t discussing a Somerfield sighting of Sam Cam in baseball...
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“She Heard It On The Grape-”
Mrs Kentishtowner wishes to let you in on a little secret. She wasn’t always Mrs Kentishtowner, she’d like to point out! She wasn’t always a wife, an executive, a mother! (And just to clarify: she...
View ArticleGabby Young’s Top 5 in Kentish Town
Gabby Young at the Bull & Last (dreaming, no doubt, of a warm scotch egg) Photographer: Tom Medwell Mrs Kentishtowner loves nothing more than an eccentric local. And none more so than Gabby Young...
View ArticleKentish Town: the best pubs in London?
Kentish Town is spear-heading London’s oh-so-current real ale revival. And it’s not just us saying this – we would, of course – but other London sites are enthusing too, like here and here. So can we...
View ArticleBest of 2011? Vote now.
Last Christmas our inaugural Top 10 2010 was a surprise hit so we’re doing it again this year. And now that our readership has grown several-fold, we’re desirous of a little feedback (if we may be so...
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Best Evening Meal 2011
1. Bull & Last 2. Made In Camden 3. Queen Of Sheba And now for that most enjoyable part of the day: dinner. Votes here naturally stretched further afield, with love shown for modern British bistro...
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Why It Matters: The Kentish Town Pubs I Knew and Loved
For anyone who cares, my name is Gerry Slater. Born in Liverpool Road in 1965, brought up in Cathcart Hill, and lived in Gaisford and Ascham Streets. My wonderful mother is still local, as are all my...
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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Editors Stephen Emms & Tom Kihl
As part of our second birthday celebrations, we thought we’d practise what we preach and take the Ich Bin Kentishtowner test. It’s harder than it looks… Stephen Emms was born in Margate, raised in New...
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Kentishtowner Awards: Best Evening Meal 2012
Our last category in the Reader Awards 2012, and it’s not overstating the matter to say that there has never been a time so fecund to dine close to home. New openings abound, and old favourites like...
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Big Review: Bull and Last, Highgate Road
In the wake of other openings, Kentish Town’s most acclaimed gastropub had been sidelined. So what’s it like now?
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Hallowe’en 2013: Top 7 – plus Backyard Cinema at Camden Lock
Trick or treat? Couldn't care a less? Either way, these venues are all trying to find innovative ways to lure you into tomorrow evening...
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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Allan Jenkins, editor, Observer Food Monthly
'What has my career taught me? That a homeless kid brought up in care can become an award-winning editor'
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Your top 5 Kentish Town food and drink faves in 2014
The people’s choice, as decided by the Twitter buzz throughout the year
View ArticleGabby Young’s Top 5 in Kentish Town
Gabby Young at the Bull & Last (dreaming, no doubt, of a warm scotch egg) Photographer: Tom Medwell Mrs Kentishtowner loves nothing more than an eccentric local. And none more so than Gabby Young...
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