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Go See: Laurel Nakadate at the Zabludowicz

By on October 10, 2011 in Art, Chalk Farm, Hidden Gem

Just a quick post to encourage you all to pop down to Zabludowicz’s latest show. Everytime we visit this gallery we can’t believe how lucky we are to have it on our doorstep. Till Dec 11 is the first solo show from Laurel Nakadate, an American artist who works with film, photography and performance. Nakadate [...]

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I say Delicious and you say Hideaway

By on October 7, 2011 in Food, Hidden Gem

The Hideaway No, we’re not arguing the toss about handbag house classics from the 1990s (ask yer mum). Instead, today’s mass debate revolves around two of the area’s diminutive pizza parlours. Which serves up the tastiest wood-fired wonders? Is it a) miniscule, low-ceilinged heart-of-Kentish local Delicious by Franco, run by a Venetian family who dish [...]

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The World According to Sallis

By on July 1, 2011 in Film &Theatre, Hidden Gem, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends, Random, Theatre

George Sallis as Pierre in Nabokov’s ‘Invitation to a Beheading’, 2009 We don’t make a habit of upsetting folk here at The Kentishtowner, but one local whose nose was put out of joint the other week was George Sallis, artistic director of Giant Olive Theatre Company. Yes, you may remember he was the one who, [...]

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Call yourself a Kentishtowner? Then walk the Borough Boundary…

By on April 21, 2011 in Camden, Community, Health & Exercise, Hidden Gem, Kentish Town, Walks

A couple of years ago I had a short-lived monthly series in Time Out on walking the borough boundaries in London. It was axed when the magazine decided to, um, reinvent itself. But here, from the archives, is an epic 16 mile hike around the borough of Camden – which – if you have nothing [...]

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Gallery Watch: Leighton Space, Liminal & Guts For Garters

By on April 1, 2011 in Art, Community, Culture, Hidden Gem, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends

Another week, another gallery or three. But it’s nice to see this one opening outside the West Kentish Town ghetto and in the previously artistically-untapped “Leightons” area just east of the Assembly House pub. Leighton Space , says the blurb, provides the “opportunity for professional artists to show work at all stages and in a [...]

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Owl’s About it?

By on December 10, 2010 in Culture, Food, Hidden Gem, History, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends, Literary, Organic, Shopping

She might not be an obvious beauty, but she sure as hell hides some secrets in her frilly drawers. No, we’re not talking about Mrs Kentishtowner; we are, however, eulogizing the pleasures of Kentish Town Road, a high street so modest its traffic lights are probably glowing red as we speak. Ignore the bump of [...]

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Dartmouth Arms

By on November 23, 2010 in Drink, Food, Hidden Gem, Kentishtowner Recommends

So The Evening Standard is trying to whip up a bit of foam about a supposed Dartmouth Park Posse, which ‘centres on the white-stuccoed home of Ed himself.’ This ill-identified grouping are, it claims, ‘healing a party that has lost its way.’ Well, you’d never guess at such machinations if you stood here, at the [...]

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Spring Projects & Studios

By on November 22, 2010 in Art, Drink, Hidden Gem

We heart the long-established Spring Studios and this custom-built 3000ft commercial gallery, which provides a platform for contemporary art, design and fashion, opened in 2008. Typifying the ongoing cultural regeneration of West Kentish Town, it’s a fabulous white space and, if you’re really polite, they may let you have a peak around one of the [...]

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The Pineapple

By on November 17, 2010 in Drink, Food, Hidden Gem, Pub

Step behind new critics’ favourite the Kentish Canteen into Leverton Place and you’re transported into a faded world of Dolly Mixture-coloured cottages and cutesy terraces. Nice, if you can afford it. Yet on the corner of leafy Leverton Street lurks The Pineapple, a real Victorian pub with a mixed crowd and many a nook and [...]

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Old Eagle

By on November 16, 2010 in Drink, Food, Hidden Gem, Kentish Town, Pub

Old Eagle (251 Royal College St) feels like a secret, although some would argue it belongs in Camden not Kentish really. A proper boozer with a mind-boggling variety of musical instruments dangling from its ceiling, it’s cosy by night, attracts a nice eclectic crowd of locals and hipsters, and its main USP is the £3 [...]

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