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Best Daytime Food 2011

By on December 21, 2011 in Awards, 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 Awards, Coffee

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 New Opening 2011: Arancini Brothers Factory Cafe

By on December 14, 2011 in Awards, 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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Ooh la la, Cafe Renoir!

By on September 15, 2011 in Coffee, Food

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 thing – or is it, um, [...]

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Map Studios Cafe

By on November 10, 2010 in Coffee, Culture, Food, Hidden Gem, West Kentish Town

Oh my. Map Cafe is an absolute gem situated on a leafy corner on the area’s creative thoroughfare, Grafton Road, in West Kentish Town. Swing by for lunch (if it’s warm on the terrace) – perhaps a quiche or a home-made chicken stew (around £4), or, if it’s tea-time, a moist carrot cake and cappuccino, [...]

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