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The Big Review: The Oxford, Kentish Town Road

By on April 19, 2012 in Drink, Food

Mrs Kentishtowner has been thinking. ‘If human time is a succession of declining ages,’ she pondered, as we strolled up the Kentish Town Road, ‘then each age approximates less and less what the original life-force was all about.’ A siren flew past. ‘That’s it,’ she said, miming a throat cut. ‘Kaput. We’re living right at [...]

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Best Boozer 2011: The Southampton Arms

By on December 22, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Drink

1. The Southampton Arms 2. The Pineapple 3= The Oxford 3= Tapping The Admiral This area of London has a particularly rich heritage of public houses. A stagger deep into the neighbourhood produces a boozer on virtually every street… or more often than not, a former pub. But while there’s no denying the decline of [...]

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Gabby Young’s Top 5 in Kentish Town

By on October 13, 2011 in Fashion, Music

Gabby Young at the Bull & Last (dreaming, no doubt, of a warm scotch egg) Photographer: Tom Medwell Mrs Kentishtowner loves nothing more than an eccentric local. And none more so than Gabby Young And Other Animals , an eight-piece collective who headline KOKO tonight for what they reckon is their biggest show ever. Kentish [...]

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“She Heard It On The Grape-”

By on July 20, 2011 in Drink, Food

Mrs Kentishtowner wishes to let you in on a little secret. She wasn’t always Mrs Kentishtowner, she’d like to point out! She wasn’t always a wife, an executive, a mother! (And just to clarify: she wasn’t involved in #hackgate, either.) But what she’d really like to confess today is that she has history with The [...]

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The Oxford

By on November 29, 2010 in Drink, Food, Kentish Town, Music

‘If I were The Oxford,’ announced Mrs Kentishtowner, her elbows on the table for a moment’s respite from a medium-rare steak that was anything but, ‘I’d pay a visit to the Canteen. And pronto.’ By which the good lady didn’t mean her work’s caff, but the new nearby all-day diner which is woo-ing the NW5 [...]

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