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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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Kentishtowner Awards: Best New Opening 2012

By on December 10, 2012 in Awards

Welcome to the 2012 Reader Awards celebrating the best our area has to offer. And what a year it’s been! Firstly, we’re chuffed that so many of you voted – and thanks too to Kabbee for sponsoring them. Now, with so many exciting new ventures starting up in the manor over the last 12 months, [...]

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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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Review: Chicken Shop Kentish Town

By on August 23, 2012 in Food

So yesterday at 6pm sharp we swanned down the unmarked staircase into a candle-lit 1950s diner interior. It’s Alpine lodge-meets-speakeasy, adorned with enviably knackered industrial pendants. The best seats are at the counter facing the chefs and their rotisserie, but these were all taken, so we sat at a modish formica table. In fact, we [...]

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Review: Pizza East Kentish Town

By on August 22, 2012 in Big Review, Food

When The Kentishtowner first revealed news that Soho House Group were touching down in NW5, readers went potty. We witnessed unprecedented, almost feverish excitement, with gossiping and retweeting aplenty. The buzz hasn’t let up since, further fuelled by the revelations that this third branch of the Pizza East chain would be accompanied by a brand [...]

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Community Pinboard: A Third Soho House outlet? Plus Caravan King’s Cross & more Streetfeast

By on August 9, 2012 in Art, Food, Pinboard

1. A Third Outlet from Soho House? Yesterday during a hard-hatted snoop round – in which we learnt that Chicken Shop has a speakeasy vibe with long counter and open kitchen, whilst upstairs Pizza East feels smaller than you’d expect – we were privy to a surprise: there’s a third joint out back constructed from [...]

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Community Pinboard: When Does Chicken Shop Open? And Free Booze at Cote!

By on August 2, 2012 in Drink, Food, News, Pinboard, Secret Camden

1. Pizza East/Chicken Shop: To Open August 28. Things are taking shape on Highgate Road as the modern glass frontage of the former Grand Union is transformed via the application of various weatherbeaten, industrial and distressed materials. Local anticipation about Soho House Group’s first foray into the neighbourhood continues to remain at fever pitch, so [...]

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More on Chicken Shop, Kentish Town

By on June 18, 2012 in Food

Right, Soho House-watchers, the Chicken Shop/Pizza East behemoth on Highgate Road is now set to open in September (thanks to reader Joel Smith for pinging over this little cut from the latest Soho House members’ magazine). Incidentally, it’s funny how chicken is suddenly everyone’s meat du jour. Yes, it’s never exactly ‘gone away,’ but we [...]

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The first pictures of the new Pizza East, Kentish Town

By on May 8, 2012 in Drink, Food

Update May 17 Hardens are reporting today that Soho House Group will be opening two restaurants on the site. The second, underneath Pizza East, will be called Chicken Shop. No further details as yet…so watch this space. But it sounds to us like they’ll be doing a galline take on the vogue for all things [...]

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