A forthcoming must-do date for your calendars is Sunday 20th July 2025, as Rossella’s alfresco dining event returns, a ...

The last time I wrote about Holloway Road’s Nag’s Head on these pages was – astonishingly – back in 2013, when Kentishtowner ...

Donate just £2 to Kentishtowner Inside the rebooted Lord Stanley. Photo: own. At a glance, in 2025 it looks pretty much the same, but the eagle-eyed (or pub regulars) will spy that the toilets are now ...

Donate just £2 to Kentishtowner. The bar. Photo: SE. Pints, which include Leyton breweries Queer Brewing and Gravity Well, as well as Pressure Drop and The Kernel, are priced fairly: anything up to ...

S ince reading about The Great Indian everywhere in January, from restaurant news site Hot Dinners to Observer critic Jay Rayner’s column, it’s been firmly on the must-try list.. Surjan Singh, ...

Just a little note (I’d love you to read this) Kentishtowner turns 15 soon – which isn’t too shabby for an independent food & culture site run on almost zero resources. And, as usual, a billion thanks ...

F or 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 ...

F or 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 ...

Originally known as the Star & Garter, in 1885 the pub was rebuilt into its present form with striking Victorian red brick exterior. Rechristened The Old Farm House, it enjoyed a reign of a century or ...

T en 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 ...

Please support us if you can In October 2024, Kentishtowner will celebrate its 14th birthday (unbelievable, right?). But with the demise of our free monthly print titles due to local advertising ...

Cremma takes a chance. H aving gone down a storm in their native Bournemouth, coffee dons Cremma (pictured above, courtesy of local hero @SecretArtistNW5) have thankfully taken over the consistently ...