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Pinboard: Lucky Chip Kentish Town, plus Valentine’s Offers – and poop!


6. Per.see.ve @ Free Space Gallery

The Tuesday after Valentine’s day, the roses may have wilted, but at least you can arouse your senses at this new show at Free Space Gallery, according to organiser Mel. “All artists have created a show on the theme of the senses, embracing the innovative and experimental,” she says. “Come open you eyes/ears/nostrils/hands and mouth ready your self for Per·see·ve me.” Cryptic, huh? Tuesday 19th February, 6-9pm, Kentish Town Health Centre. The exhibition continues until the 25th February.

Next Page: One woman’s anti-poop mission!


24 thoughts on “Pinboard: Lucky Chip Kentish Town, plus Valentine’s Offers – and poop!”

  1. The shite signs are great but a shame that they’re necessary. Walking from Gilden Crescent to Kentish Town west station everyday is a constant dogshit evading walk, it’s disgraceful.

  2. the new layout is nice – if a bit confusing… I couldn’t figure out why Dean was talking about dogshit when I was only seeing a story about lucky chip chicken…

    Any tips for how us kentishtowners can help shebeen get their permanent late license? is there some sort of way to comment positively on the subject?

    as far as the poop goes – maybe the traffic wardens should also be able to hand out tickets for illegal dog poop?! they sure are good at their jobs so if anyone is likely to be militant about it they are 🙂 I can see resorting to the signs but to be honest the sort of people who leave dog shit on the pavement are not the sort of people that will be shamed by signs I’d say.

  3. Still can remember that odious Ben Denner refusing me some mayo for my chips at the Netil Market van (they had a huge pot in full view). ‘You can have it any way you want’ – well apparently not at Lucky Chips.

  4. Cara, what a fantastic effort!

    I live a road back from your signs and it is truly like running the Krypton Factor getting home in the evenings, trying to avoid the sh@t. If you’re successful there’s no prize, if however you’re not…

  5. I live in Dartmouth Park and there’s a f***er with his big dopey dogs that he lets sh*t outside our house almost on a daily basis and I never get there in time to catch him. If I do I might be compelled to actually pick it up and throw it at him, I just cannot fathom how you can own a dog and not clean up it’s crap, it’s a part of responsible ownership. Sadly too many people are as thick as the stuff that comes out of their dogs behinds to care.

  6. Not only is the dog poo disgusting, it also exposes our young kids to the risk of blindness by Toxicariasis (Angler’s Lane to Talacre playcentre from the high street is a particular hotspot).

    Firstly, I’d like Camden Council (under a FOI request if necessary) to tell us exactly how many NW5 dog owners have been fined for dog mess, to see if they take this seriously (I doubt it).

    Secondly, what about a ‘name and shame’ page on the Kentishtowner website where smartphone users can post pictures of irresponsible dog owners next to their ‘brown trophies’.

  7. I have been on to Thomas Fenn at Camden Environment (thomas.fenn@camdn.gov.uk) and ward councillor Meric Apak (meric.apak@camden.gov.uk) for months on the issue, specifically where I live in the LEBOC area. We are blighted by dog poo as well as litter and fly-tipping and the responses I get are ‘we are working to educate people to be more responsible’, we have tangible examples of collaborative working between residents and council officers’. But daily I still walk past (sometimes through) dog poo when walking my kids to nursery and school.

    I have asked them to come up with a way of increasing the frequency of cleans only to be told this week that ‘throwing resources at it will not resolve’. Surely we ask only that they manage OUR money more efficiently and with greater results by not just cleaning every road once a week – as confimed by Mr Fenn, but by analysing and redirecting resource from roads that do not suffer the same issue (there are many) to those that do.

    I urge as many people as possible to contact Camden Environment and their ward councillor to get them to improve the way they spend our money on this issue. Phew, I need a lie down.

  8. I visited the SeabrightArms Lucky Chip ‘residency’ twice, and my girlfriend did so three times. Painful waiting times, several menu items unavailable (inc fries!) and generally unimpressive. Walk down to Byron in Camden instead. They are deservedly doing much better – and im sure they wouldn’t run out of fries either.

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24 thoughts on “Pinboard: Lucky Chip Kentish Town, plus Valentine’s Offers – and poop!”

  1. The shite signs are great but a shame that they’re necessary. Walking from Gilden Crescent to Kentish Town west station everyday is a constant dogshit evading walk, it’s disgraceful.

  2. the new layout is nice – if a bit confusing… I couldn’t figure out why Dean was talking about dogshit when I was only seeing a story about lucky chip chicken…

    Any tips for how us kentishtowners can help shebeen get their permanent late license? is there some sort of way to comment positively on the subject?

    as far as the poop goes – maybe the traffic wardens should also be able to hand out tickets for illegal dog poop?! they sure are good at their jobs so if anyone is likely to be militant about it they are 🙂 I can see resorting to the signs but to be honest the sort of people who leave dog shit on the pavement are not the sort of people that will be shamed by signs I’d say.

  3. Still can remember that odious Ben Denner refusing me some mayo for my chips at the Netil Market van (they had a huge pot in full view). ‘You can have it any way you want’ – well apparently not at Lucky Chips.

  4. Cara, what a fantastic effort!

    I live a road back from your signs and it is truly like running the Krypton Factor getting home in the evenings, trying to avoid the sh@t. If you’re successful there’s no prize, if however you’re not…

  5. I live in Dartmouth Park and there’s a f***er with his big dopey dogs that he lets sh*t outside our house almost on a daily basis and I never get there in time to catch him. If I do I might be compelled to actually pick it up and throw it at him, I just cannot fathom how you can own a dog and not clean up it’s crap, it’s a part of responsible ownership. Sadly too many people are as thick as the stuff that comes out of their dogs behinds to care.

  6. Not only is the dog poo disgusting, it also exposes our young kids to the risk of blindness by Toxicariasis (Angler’s Lane to Talacre playcentre from the high street is a particular hotspot).

    Firstly, I’d like Camden Council (under a FOI request if necessary) to tell us exactly how many NW5 dog owners have been fined for dog mess, to see if they take this seriously (I doubt it).

    Secondly, what about a ‘name and shame’ page on the Kentishtowner website where smartphone users can post pictures of irresponsible dog owners next to their ‘brown trophies’.

  7. I have been on to Thomas Fenn at Camden Environment (thomas.fenn@camdn.gov.uk) and ward councillor Meric Apak (meric.apak@camden.gov.uk) for months on the issue, specifically where I live in the LEBOC area. We are blighted by dog poo as well as litter and fly-tipping and the responses I get are ‘we are working to educate people to be more responsible’, we have tangible examples of collaborative working between residents and council officers’. But daily I still walk past (sometimes through) dog poo when walking my kids to nursery and school.

    I have asked them to come up with a way of increasing the frequency of cleans only to be told this week that ‘throwing resources at it will not resolve’. Surely we ask only that they manage OUR money more efficiently and with greater results by not just cleaning every road once a week – as confimed by Mr Fenn, but by analysing and redirecting resource from roads that do not suffer the same issue (there are many) to those that do.

    I urge as many people as possible to contact Camden Environment and their ward councillor to get them to improve the way they spend our money on this issue. Phew, I need a lie down.

  8. I visited the SeabrightArms Lucky Chip ‘residency’ twice, and my girlfriend did so three times. Painful waiting times, several menu items unavailable (inc fries!) and generally unimpressive. Walk down to Byron in Camden instead. They are deservedly doing much better – and im sure they wouldn’t run out of fries either.

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