These two local pubs have just been flattened by developers
Wander down these streets a few weeks ago, and you’d have found a local watering hole on the corner
The Torriano
Kentishtuner: Why NW5’s Music Scene is still healthy
In which our music columnist Conor Fisk argues that Kentish Town’s music scene is nicely low-key, and all the better for it; and newcomer Hannah Watson discovers the joys of a certain late-night dive bar on her doorstep… A version of Conor’s article appears in our first ever print edition. Find a FREE copy at …
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Community Pinboard: Entertain your kids. Visit the Theatre. Eat Chicken (no, not there!)
1. Own A Pony (for a day). Our own dinky pocket of country living (that’s Kentish Town City Farm to you) offers a chance this Saturday for kids to adopt a four legged friend, allowing all the fun of looking after, feeding, mucking out and, of course, riding. 10 am Saturday 18th, £30 call 020 …
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Top 10 Beer Gardens in Kentish Town
There are dozens of great boozers in NW5. But where you can you soak up some rays too?
Save Torriano; Lose Liver
Now and again, Mrs Kentishtowner gets a craving to go east. Not necessarily to Shoreditch or Hackney, you understand, riotous though both are, but to what a slithersome estate agent might term ‘Torriano Village’, up near Brecknock Road, where NW5 snuggles up to N7. And nowhere is this postcode axis better personified than the Torriano. …
Torriano
Never heard of Torriano? Sounds a bit ‘foreign’, doesn’t it. Actually, it’s a bohemian-ish area east of Kentish Town. Poetry and folk nights still take place at the Torriano Meeting House, there’s a nearby vibrant road of independent shops like this one, and a great local boozer, the Torriano (71-73 Torriano avenue) complete with mixed …
