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Food

Food

The Big Review: Corner Room, Bethnal Green

The Corner Room is sister to Nuno Mendes’ justly acclaimed Viajante, where we enjoyed a well-priced celebratory meal a while back. Highlights? Oh, lobster and …

Art

Pinboard: Art Gallery Special. And a Hunting Cabin in Camden, No Less

1. Local ‘Broken’ Artwork. Flaxon Ptootch, the infamous gallery-salon crossover, is currently exhibiting these intriguing works by North London-based musician and artist Lupen Crook. Crook …

Food

The Big Review: Cafe Chula, West Yard, Camden Lock

There was a time, not so very long ago, when the opening of a new Mexican ‘Cantina’ pretty much signalled an onslaught of persistent tequila …

Coffee

Cheeky Coffee: Bread And Bean, Archway

Oh joy! Coffee packed with a rich sweetness so comforting when peering at the sludge-grey outside

Food

The Big Review: Satuma, Fortess Road

New Year is all about healthy, clean foods, and we’re lucky Camden is blessed with excellent sushi options. The best is Asakusa on Eversholt Street, …

Drink

The Big Review: Camden Eye, Kentish Town Road

Well worth dodging both traffic and tourists to get in to?

Community

Pinboard: New Year’s Eve Top 7

1. Feast. Then Walk Home. Why trek to the West End when you can eat and booze at the Junction Tavern and then roll home? …

Awards

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 …

Drink

The Big Review: The George Shillibeer, North Road

Just over from Brecknock, Kentish Town’s eastern tollgate, is North Road, which connects the upper reaches of York Way with the Cally. And now that …

Awards

Kentishtowner Awards: Best Customer Service 2012

‘Not much of that in Kentish Town,’ snorted one fiftysomething male in this category. Grumpy! Luckily, hundreds of you begged to differ. Customer service is, …

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