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Wednesday Picture: Elephants Escape in Kentish Town

By on February 6, 2013 in History, Wednesday Picture

This fetching line-drawing (click it to view full size) – published in The Graphic in 1884 – depicts one of the more random moments in K-Town’s documented history, the day two elephants ran amok through the local streets. It’s fascinating to imagine details of the very Victorian tableau that gave rise to these ‘strange adventures’: [...]

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Pinboard: New Year’s Eve Top 7

By on December 27, 2012 in Drink, Food, Music, Pinboard

1. Feast. Then Walk Home. Why trek to the West End when you can eat and booze at the Junction Tavern and then roll home? That’s the premise behind this local fave’s traditional New Year’s Eve celebration, anyway. Raise a glass to the onset of yet another goddam year, or just laze by the fire [...]

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Kentishtowner Awards: Best Customer Service 2012

By on December 15, 2012 in Awards, Drink, Eating & Drinking, Food

‘Not much of that in Kentish Town,’ snorted one fiftysomething male in this category. Grumpy! Luckily, hundreds of you begged to differ. Customer service is, of course, hotly fought over in our comments section. One person’s idea of polite is another’s haughtiness; and when does cheery friendliness become, well, irritating? What’s also interesting about this [...]

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Community Pinboard: When Does Chicken Shop Open? And Free Booze at Cote!

By on August 2, 2012 in Drink, Food, News, Pinboard, Secret Camden

1. Pizza East/Chicken Shop: To Open August 28. Things are taking shape on Highgate Road as the modern glass frontage of the former Grand Union is transformed via the application of various weatherbeaten, industrial and distressed materials. Local anticipation about Soho House Group’s first foray into the neighbourhood continues to remain at fever pitch, so [...]

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Best New Opening 2011: Arancini Brothers Factory Cafe

By on December 14, 2011 in Awards, Food

1. Arancini Brothers, 115 Kentish Town Road 2. The Vine, 86 Highgate Road 3. Tapping The Admiral, 77 Castle Road So the votes are in for our first annual Kentishtowner Awards. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and if you didn’t have time then you can still give us your choices in the comments below. From [...]

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Up The-

By on September 1, 2011 in Drink, Food

Hello again. It’s been a while. How is everyone? We’re happy to report that the Kentishtowner’s staycation was a success, despite mostly sullen skies, and took in Whitstable’s oyster shacks, our very own cottage in Deal, and the sweeping beaches of North Norfolk, where – good God! – the sun actually shone and, on Holkham [...]

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Annie’s Bar: What Do You Think?

By on July 21, 2011 in Drink, Food

Last night, during a magnificent rain-soaked midweek rampage that took in the Southampton (for “expresso” ale!), The Vine (for polenta with wild mushrooms!) and Heroes (for some late night divebar fashionableness!), Annie’s Bar was the one place that we entered – and weren’t enamoured by. Why is this? Let’s face it, Mrs Kentishtowner will pretty [...]

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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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Did Emma Hamilton really drink in the garden at Heroes?

By on April 15, 2011 in Drink, History

Spring is in the air and new boozers are being birthed in NW5 like sticky lambs. The crumbling Lion and Unicorn, on Gaisford Street, is about to re-emerge as a swanky “food pub” with a refreshed upstairs theatre to boot (a peek through the windows drew a gasp of delight from Mrs Kentishtowner the other [...]

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