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Kentishtowner Awards: Best Evening Meal 2012

By on December 22, 2012 in Awards, Food

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 to dine close to home. New openings abound, and old favourites like The Abbey have launched quality offerings like Farmer Tom’s Kitchen. Votes were cast far and wide, with E.Mono, [...]

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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Editors Stephen Emms & Tom Kihl

By on November 27, 2012 in Q&A

As part of our second birthday celebrations, we thought we’d practise what we preach and take the Ich Bin Kentishtowner test. It’s harder than it looks… Stephen Emms was born in Margate, raised in New Malden, Surrey and moved north of the river in 1997. He’s lived in Kentish Town for nine years. Before founding [...]

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Why It Matters: The Kentish Town Pubs I Knew and Loved

By on November 5, 2012 in Why It Matters

For anyone who cares, my name is Gerry Slater. Born in Liverpool Road in 1965, brought up in Cathcart Hill, and lived in Gaisford and Ascham Streets. My wonderful mother is still local, as are all my close friends. For many years I worked at West Hampstead Fire Station (and its NW5 branch), but if [...]

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Best Evening Meal 2011

By on December 23, 2011 in Awards, 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 of 2011? Vote now.

By on December 6, 2011 in Awards

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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Kentish Town: the best pubs in London?

By on November 4, 2011 in Drink

Kentish Town is spear-heading London’s oh-so-current real ale revival. And it’s not just us saying this – we would, of course – but other London sites are enthusing too, like here and here. So can we cobble together a chronology to all this? First, we think, came the Pineapple, a perfect real pub, ales and [...]

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Gabby Young’s Top 5 in Kentish Town

By on October 13, 2011 in Fashion, Music

Gabby Young at the Bull & Last (dreaming, no doubt, of a warm scotch egg) Photographer: Tom Medwell Mrs Kentishtowner loves nothing more than an eccentric local. And none more so than Gabby Young And Other Animals , an eight-piece collective who headline KOKO tonight for what they reckon is their biggest show ever. Kentish [...]

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“She Heard It On The Grape-”

By on July 20, 2011 in Drink, Food

Mrs Kentishtowner wishes to let you in on a little secret. She wasn’t always Mrs Kentishtowner, she’d like to point out! She wasn’t always a wife, an executive, a mother! (And just to clarify: she wasn’t involved in #hackgate, either.) But what she’d really like to confess today is that she has history with The [...]

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Don’t Cry For Me, O Martini

By on May 27, 2011 in Drink

‘Perhaps,’ I wondered, ‘she was an illusion?’ ‘More likely,’ said Mrs Kentishtowner, ‘she was a portent of our impending doom.’ No, we weren’t discussing a Somerfield sighting of Sam Cam in baseball cap and shades; we were, however, pondering the whereabouts of a mixologist who, having served some delicious libations at Blues Kitchen, gave us [...]

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Introducing: The Gobble Downer

By on May 20, 2011 in Food

Everyone has to eat, right? Even svelte Mrs Kentishtowner, who fears that one day she’ll be visible from the moon. (Her mantra? ‘Thank God that dog won’t walk itself.’) Anyway, we digress. Today sees the launch of our new monthly foodie column: The Gobble Downer (get what we did there?) And, as you’ll learn pretty [...]

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