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Why It Matters: ‘West Kentish Town is welcome,’ says KTNF’s Caroline Hill

By on July 16, 2012 in Why It Matters

It’s great that so many people feel very passionately about joining Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum and its boundaries. The problem with any drawn boundary is that it is, by its very nature, arbitrary. We felt that the railway line was a natural border to the west that kept Kentish Town Road at the centre. The [...]

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Meze Ocakbasi

By on June 3, 2011 in Food

If you live in the posh bit of Kentish Town and have never ventured west to Queen’s Cresent, now’s the time – the sun is shining, the market’s on tomorrow, and its dozens of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern shops, bazaars and stalls are heaving with bargainous fruit and veg, both seasonal and exotic. And you [...]

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Darling Buds Of Queen’s Crescent

By on May 5, 2011 in Art, West Kentish Town

Hot of the press: the illustrious folks behind new pop-up exhibition, Darling Buds, at the Parlour Gallery on Queen’s Crescent, invite Kentishtowner readers to their private view tonight from 6-10pm. The event is part of a rather intriguing month-long happening (of which The Kentishtowner is not, alas, yet privy) called Come What May. For Darling [...]

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‘The Value Of Things’: starts Saturday

By on March 3, 2011 in Art, Culture, Pinboard, West Kentish Town

A few weeks ago artist Claire Hind asked us to mention The Value Of Things, her new pop-up exhibition at the Parlour Gallery on Queen’s Crescent. Well, it starts this Saturday, so head down if you’re around. For more details check out their website or, for the time-pressed, opening times and contributors etc are: OPENING [...]

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Tracey comes to Malden Road?

By on January 20, 2011 in Art, Culture, West Kentish Town

Exciting news just in today. The Kentishtowner has just learnt that from Feb 5 to March 27 Tracey Emin will be showing at an empty shop on Malden Road (#46), as part of the Zabludowicz’s forthcoming “The Shape We’re In (Camden)”. For that, we’ll forgive her conversion to Toryism (almost). The press release reads: “Taking [...]

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The next Broadway Market?

By on December 6, 2010 in Culture, Shopping, West Kentish Town

OK, so the picture makes it look deserted (Mrs Kentishtowner preferring to do her shopping at the crack of dawn) but a vibrant Italian market, which attracted a nice metropolitan mix of locals, descended on Queen’s Crescent on Saturday. Fondling the huge selection of breads, olive oils, cheeses and pastries, several Irish ladies, who had [...]

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Queen’s Crescent Market

By on November 26, 2010 in Art, Chalk Farm, Coffee, Culture, Food, History, Walks, West Kentish Town

There’s nowhere else in the area like it. Some say it’s rundown and depressing, others that it’s unpretentious and one of the last pockets of real London. Go decide for yourself tomorrow (or every Thursday/Saturday), when the street market (one of the oldest in the capital) runs from 9am -3pm. If you arrive from Chalk [...]

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SugaSmak! land on a roof in West Kentish Town

By on November 24, 2010 in Music, West Kentish Town

And now for music news. Today sees the Kentishtowner unashamedly plugging our sister label, Better Get Records. Why? Because its latest release, ‘We Are,’ by Hackney-dwellers Sugasmak! was high up on a rooftop (ours, since you ask) amidst the blaze of a West Kentish Town sunset. Regard those peeling Victorian terraces! The low-rise social housing! [...]

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Cabin Cafe

By on November 17, 2010 in Coffee, Food, West Kentish Town

I’ll be honest, I’ve never eaten there. Walked past it a million times of course. Looks fun though, if a little confused-of-identity: Chinese on the one hand – value noodles, chow mein – and greasy spoon on the other. But it occupies the corner of a pretty crossroads, with the verdant exterior of the George [...]

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Grafton Road

By on November 10, 2010 in Art, Culture, Walks, West Kentish Town

Grafton Road is coming up in the world. Why? Because this formerly maligned corner of West Kentish Town’s warehouses, factories and yards (mostly remnants of its former life as the centre of the piano industry in Edwardian times) have been rebirthed as fashion, film, production, media, TV studios and architectural practices. Wander the streets and [...]

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