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The Big Review: Cafe Chula, West Yard, Camden Lock

There was a time, not so very long ago, when the opening of a new Mexican ‘Cantina’ pretty much signalled an onslaught of persistent tequila girls, sub-Doritos starters and heavy-on-the-rice burritos drowned with inauthentic cheese. Thankfully the cuisine has – finally – captured us Brits’ imagination, and a new breed of taco peddlers is mercifully …

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The Big Review: The George Shillibeer, North Road

Just over from Brecknock, Kentish Town’s eastern tollgate, is North Road, which connects the upper reaches of York Way with the Cally. And now that King’s Cross is so swanky, it must be one of central-ish London’s last industrial outposts: think railway lines, neverending blocks of unfinished flats, cranes hovering, bleak stretches without a single …

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