The last time I wrote about Holloway Road’s Nag’s Head on these pages was – astonishingly – back in 2013, when Kentishtowner used to run what we called a “Free Weekend” section. This weekly slot ...

I‘s good news to see one of NW5’s most iconic Victorian buildings home to a new cultural hotsoot. Housed in the recently vacated former Zabludowicz gallery, Camden Arts Projects is a brand-new not-for ...

First thoughts? It’s so like the Highgate Road original that it’s almost discombobulating. With its dark mahogany panelled walls, green lacquered ceiling, battered counter and dark wooden boards, this ...

For years I lived on Grafton Terrace, where West Kentish Town blurs into Gospel Oak on the cusp of swanky old NW3. In fact, I remember, back in the noughties, one estate agent even trying to sell me ...

For years, we’ve stared at the plaque at the top of this landmark Kentish Town Road building and wondered why no-one considered using its original Victorian moniker during its many recent incarnations ...

Right now we’ve got a bit of a crush on this North Road boozer, located on the incline that sweeps down from Highgate village to the less haughty realness of East Finchley. It started in the summer, ...

For years, we’ve stared at the late Victorian plaque at the top of this building and wondered why no-one considered its original moniker during its many recent incarnations. Until this week, that is, ...

Ten years ago this summer, an unassuming ice cream parlour – or so it looked to the passer-by – opened on the scruffy lower reaches of Kentish Town Road. Locals soon realised that the ambitions of ...

Where exactly is it? Just where Back Lane tumbles down to meet Flask Walk, this most romantic corner of Hampstead is like being on holiday: the cobbled pedestrianized street, boutiques, the musty ...

As we all know, things move quickly in the world of London hospitality. And it was sad to learn last week that seminal Regent’s Park Road restaurant Odette’s was closing, a genuine North London ...

Having gone down a storm in their native Bournemouth, coffee dons Cremma (pictured above, courtesy of local hero @SecretArtistNW5) have thankfully taken over the consistently under-performing spot ...

“There’s nowhere else like it in London, or the UK,” says Foodscape founder Michael Thorp, “where you can join a farm, are given your own vertical veg plot, and get all the support you need to grow ...