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 ...

This Malden Road pub is close to my heart: I lived nearby for well over a decade and, during that time, from the noughties to the teens, witnessed a trio of incarnations. And now its current chapter ...

In the unlikely event that you didn’t know, one of Camden’s most stunning watering holes finally reopened the other week. Sister pub to the nearby (and much newer) Tufnell Park Tavern, the Lord ...

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 ...

What and where? This charming pile is surely NW5’s cutest coffee spot, formerly known as Kentish Town Stores. Now it’s packed with freelancers, its first-floor co-working space rammo on any given ...

It was sad to hear yesterday that Panadera is closing later this month. Situated on the lower reaches of Kentish Town Road, it’s the lovely little spot near local institution Bintang and ice cream ...

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 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 ...