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Kentishtowner Kitchen: Braised Beef Cheeks at Kentish Canteen

By on February 16, 2013 in Food, Recipes

“At the moment we have these amazing s-l-o-w cooked cheeks in red wine on the menu,” says owner Wendy. “It’s a very tough and lean cut of meat, and you may have to order it ahead from the butcher. But it’s worth it: the longish cooking process produces the most tender result. At the Canteen [...]

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Kentishtowner Awards: Best Lunch 2012

By on December 18, 2012 in Awards

A decent lunch is a big deal to Kentishtowners. There was a huge spread of honourable namechecks in this, one of the most popular categories. Stretching geographically wide, from the Village Café in York Rise over to the ‘the Italian on the Heath’, and with a strong cluster of high street fry-up faves like Mem’s, [...]

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Kentishtowner Awards: Best Breakfast 2012

By on December 13, 2012 in Awards, Food

Best Breakfast is an unusual category for us in that, despite our weekly coverage of eating options in the area, we have barely touched upon that first, most important meal of the day. Why? For no other reason than resources; however, we’re planning a Top 10 guide in the new year. But in the meantime [...]

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Wednesday Picture: What has Jack The Ripper got to do with Kentish Canteen?

By on November 28, 2012 in Wednesday Picture

Like the Kentishtowner, the Canteen is also celebrating its second birthday this autumn; furthermore, it was the subject of my first ever Kentishtowner post – mainly because, the night before, I’d had a really good meal there and wanted to write something. So it makes sense in the week that we celebrate our birthday to [...]

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The Big Review: Kentish Canteen

By on May 10, 2012 in Big Review, Drink, Food

Kentish Canteen is a place everyone seems to have an opinion on. It opened back in October 2010 to a fanfare from Giles Coren, Time Out, The Guardian and others, was rammed for a while, but like many an instant celebrity, the pressure began to show. Readers would tweet us about inconsistency and occasional service [...]

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‘Shebeen’ : the downstairs cocktail bar at Kentish Canteen

By on March 15, 2012 in Drink

MRS KENTISHTOWNER HAS A MOTTO: if you get up early enough, you can board the day and ride it easily. If you don’t, you only end up having to push it in front of you as you go. And she repeated this again and again, head aching, the other morning, after the launch night at [...]

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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 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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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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Duck, NW5 – here comes the Crawl.

By on April 28, 2011 in Culture, Music, Pinboard

Or should that be tortoise? So this year they’ve thrown Kentish Town into the mix. Yes, for the first time, the industrious, annual Camden Crawl staggers north up Kentish Town Road until it collapses, light-headed, and perhaps a bit icky, at The Forum. (En route it swings by such stellar venues as the Abbey Tavern, [...]

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