Tag Archives | Heroes London

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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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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Did Emma Hamilton really drink in the garden at Heroes?

By on April 15, 2011 in Drink, History, Random

Spring is in the air and new boozers are being birthed in NW5 like sticky lambs. The crumbling Lion and Unicorn, on Gaisford Street, is about to re-emerge as a swanky “food pub” with a refreshed upstairs theatre to boot (a peek through the windows drew a gasp of delight from Mrs Kentishtowner the other [...]

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