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Best Live Venue 2011

By on January 5, 2012 in 2011 Best Ofs, Music

1. Roundhouse 2. Bull & Gate 3= Koko 3= Barfly And so to our final (belated) 2011 awards category. Despite the Xmas rush, it’s fair to say votes came pouring in. And the more we – and some of you – thought about it, the harder, and perhaps more futile, it actually seemed to plump [...]

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Oh and one more thing: Best Live Music venue

By on December 24, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Music

Roundhouse or Wheelbarrow? The Forum or Heroes? Proud Galleries or Blues Kitchen? Black Heart or Koko? Bull & Gate or Lock Tavern? Downstairs at The Torriano or upstairs at The Oxford? What about Barfly? God knows why this category slipped through the net. We blame the dog; or maybe the mulled cider. Still, our corner [...]

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Best Evening Meal 2011

By on December 23, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Food

1. Bull & Last 2. Made In Camden 3. Queen Of Sheba And now for that most enjoyable part of the day: dinner. Votes here naturally stretched further afield, with love shown for modern British bistro Market on Parkway, Kentish Canteen, the Horseshoe (the people behind Camden Town Brewery no less) and the reinvented (and [...]

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Best Boozer 2011: The Southampton Arms

By on December 22, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Drink

1. The Southampton Arms 2. The Pineapple 3= The Oxford 3= Tapping The Admiral This area of London has a particularly rich heritage of public houses. A stagger deep into the neighbourhood produces a boozer on virtually every street… or more often than not, a former pub. But while there’s no denying the decline of [...]

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Best Daytime Food 2011

By on December 21, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Food

1= Kentish Canteen 1= Mario’s Cafe 3. Map Studio Cafe Our corner of North London, if you look carefully, is spoilt by the sheer range of food options, from Ethiopian to Pakistani, Sicilian to Japanese. And so votes in this category covered a huge range of places, with high street stalwarts Phoenicia Food Hall and [...]

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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 Independent Shop 2011: Owl Bookshop

By on December 16, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Books, Shopping

1. Owl Bookshop 2. Earth 3. B&S DIY Shop With the UK somewhat of a world leader in bland identikit high streets, it’s refreshing to consider the range and calibre of independent shops on offer in the area. Votes came in for a truly diverse range of establishments, from the well-known to the gloriously obscure. [...]

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Best Gallery 2011: Zabludowicz Collection

By on December 15, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Art

1. Zabludowicz Collection 2. Cob Gallery 3. Spring Projects Best gallery was an interesting one. Whilst many of you were headstrong in your opinion, a good few were foxed by the category. (‘Call me a philistine’, quipped Mark, Conrad and several others.) We thought you all read The Kentishtowner? Oh, you do… Happily, votes did [...]

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Best New Opening 2011: Arancini Brothers Factory Cafe

By on December 14, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Food

1. Arancini Brothers, 115 Kentish Town Road 2. The Vine, 86 Highgate Road 3. Tapping The Admiral, 77 Castle Road So the votes are in for our first annual Kentishtowner Awards. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and if you didn’t have time then you can still give us your choices in the comments below. From [...]

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