Laughs and Dogs down the Fawcett
Lots going on down the Colonel Fawcett at the moment. First off, co-owner Ross emailed us to say that superior thinking man’s comedian Mark Thomas will be performing on Monday July 29 – and it’s only £4 a ticket! Readers of a certain age will remember Mark from nineties hit The Mary Whitehouse Experience and the more recent Mark Thomas Comedy Product on Channel 4. So now’s your chance to get pretty intimate with him. Yikes.
And like the Grafton, who operate a brilliant roadside BBQ most nights weather permitting (in advance of their new chef the Fat Butcher, currently polishing his knives in the kitchen), on Fridays post-work and Saturdays the Fawcett is also doing a sort of posh streetfood BBQ with the obligatory “dogs”, burgers and marinated meats of various kinds. Prices hover at around a tenner, with all sorts of sides and extras to boot. 1 Randolph Street.
Is Kentish Town top of the cycling charts?
2 thoughts on “Pinboard: Any news on the Bull & Gate? And how Kentish Town squares up to Hackney”
RE: the cycling
Proximity to Regents Park, being at the foot of the north london alps (Swaine’s lane, highgate hill etc etc), some of the best independent bike shops in London (Simpsons, Chamberlain, Lunar), home of Rapha (high end bike fashion and sponsors to TDF winners Team Sky), a police officer who cycles (Peter Ryan) – need I continue? Yet yet, we lack a cycling club for those with aspirations to ride a bit faster and further. A gospel oak cycling club is trying to be formed, so if that can be plugged that would be good!
Never thought I’d say this but I hope the Bull and gate gets converted into flats, a better end then becoming just another gastro.