OK, so it might not be Primrose Hill or Regent’s Park, but Talacre Gardens, which adjoins Kentish Town West Overground station, has a charm of its own, with its walkways and fields, quiet area and towering trees. Furthermore, the park’s history is quite interesting. Never a preserved green space, its inception was the result of …
‘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 …
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 …
We wrapped up in hats and scarves and headed out in sub-zero temperatures, across the frozen estates of Gospel Oak and down into the valley of Chetwynd Road
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! …
Mrs Kentishtowner always feels it could be candle-lit and so much more cosy. Surely they’ve seen the roaring fires at the Southampton down the road?
Made In Camden should be the best thing to happen to Chalk Farm for ages. Although part of the Roundhouse, this new bar and all-day brasserie has its own entrance and vibe: cosy booths, stylish pendant lighting and big windows, through which you can observe the always-entertaining antics of the Chalk Farm Road brigade. The …
We heart the long-established Spring Studios and this custom-built 3000ft commercial gallery, which provides a platform for contemporary art, design and fashion, opened in 2008. Typifying the ongoing cultural regeneration of West Kentish Town, it’s a fabulous white space and, if you’re really polite, they may let you have a peak around one of the …
Step behind new critics’ favourite the Kentish Canteen into Leverton Place and you’re transported into a faded world of Dolly Mixture-coloured cottages and cutesy terraces. Nice, if you can afford it. Yet on the corner of leafy Leverton Street lurks The Pineapple, a real Victorian pub with a mixed crowd and many a nook and …
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 …
