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Best Coffee 2011: Arancini Brothers

By on December 19, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Coffee, Kentish Town

1. Arancini Brothers 2. Bean About Town 3. The Wine Cellar Kentish Town finally has good coffee. Voting in this category was wide open, with a couple of (always apologetic) votes for the big boy newcomers Costa and Pret among them (incidentally, the debate continues to rage over how positive the arrival of these two chains on [...]

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Best Happening 2011: Alma Street Festival

By on December 18, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Festival, Kentish Town, Random

1. Alma Street Festival 2. The absence of looted shops in August 3. 2am summer swimming on the Heath When we asked for your ‘Best of 2011’ lists, certain categories lent themselves to a more creative type of response. And ‘Best Happening’ is surely one of those, encouraging some very personal replies – all of [...]

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Best of 2011? Vote now.

By on December 6, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Kentish Town

Last Christmas our inaugural Top 10 2010 was a surprise hit so we’re doing it again this year. And now that our readership has grown several-fold, we’re desirous of a little feedback (if we may be so bold). So help us out, local people: is the Southampton your favourite boozer? the Bull & Last your [...]

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Free Portrait on a Friday?

By on November 25, 2011 in Art, Friday Picture, Kentish Town

Walking casually down Castlehaven Road the other weekend we chanced upon a photo shoot in progress. It was an otherwise drab afternoon, but the studio lights bathing the pavement drew our attention, as they had done a small gaggle of others. Such inquisitiveness was being rewarded – the opportunity to have a professional portrait taken [...]

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The Friday Picture: Oh, look it’s Woolies from back in the day

By on October 21, 2011 in History, Kentish Town

Too hungover, this painfully sunny afternoon, to deliver anything more than a vintage picture – but isn’t it lovely? Can anyone enlighten us on its approx date? *scratches head* Failing that, do you know any miracle hangover cures?

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Ooh la la, Cafe Renoir!

By on September 15, 2011 in Coffee, Food, Kentish Town

Le coeur de la Ville Kentish You could have knocked Mrs Kentishtowner down with a feather. Really you could. For just the other day Cafe Renoir emerged with a chic new look, all Farrow and Ball taupes and Kentish Canteen je ne sais quoi. But is it just an X Factor impersonation of the real [...]

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Private View at The UnShop: Tonight, 630pm

By on September 2, 2011 in Art, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends, Shopping

Being huge fans of Gillian Tindall’s book on Kentish Town, this invite caught our eye the other day – an exhibition which takes its cue from the book’s title, The Fields Beneath, to explore the idea of hidden images and beauty. So, if you’re in the manor tonight, curator Tom Allen (from Transition Kentish Town) [...]

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On yer bike

By on August 18, 2011 in Chalk Farm, Cycling, Kentish Town

How times change. Only two days ago we were tweeting about the irritation of ping-pinging rush-hour bikes along the towpath – and now Mrs Kentishtowner is busy browsing pink lycra shorts on Amazon (and bemoaning the incessant rain). Why the change of heart? “Two words,” she said last night, disgarding her knife and fork on [...]

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Chalk Farm, 830am Tuesday

By on August 9, 2011 in Camden, Kentish Town, News
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Why is Annie’s Bar so crap?

By on July 21, 2011 in Drink, Food, Kentish Town

It’s surely a question that most of us have asked at one point or another. And last night, during a magnificent rain-soaked midweek rampage that took in the Southampton (for “expresso” ale!), The Vine (for polenta with wild mushrooms!) and Heroes (for some late night divebar fashionableness!), Annie’s Bar was the one place that we [...]

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