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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 2011 Best Ofs, 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 2011 Best Ofs, 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 Community, Culture, Kentish Town, Music

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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The Kentishtowner’s Top 10 of 2010

By on December 22, 2010 in Art, Cocktails, Fashion, Food, Foodie, Gastropub, Health & Exercise, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends, Market, Pub, Shopping, Streetlife

It’s the last entry of the year so, wrapping up our first season here at the KT, we’re pleased to unveil our inaugural Kentishtowner Top 10 for 2010. #1. Southampton Arms. Why? Roaring fire, wood-panelled interior, directional lighting, brain-fryingly strong ciders, dayglo ales, pork ‘n’ apple baps, a friendly crowd (you really do start talking [...]

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Kentish Canteen

By on November 9, 2010 in Food, Kentish Town

Kentish Canteen, Kentish Town Road Pink lamb and borlotti beans, perfect parmesan-crusted fried chicken with rocket and aioli, a bright, contemporary interior and tables stacked high with Ottolenghi-style brownies, desserts and ‘larder’ salads, the newly-opened Canteen epitomises all that’s current about modern London all-day dining. And if you stare out the window long enough, you [...]

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