The Almeida, an attractive restaurant in a former warehouse just off Upper Street, has been around for so long it’s slipped off many a foodie radar. Perhaps it’s too closely associated with pre-theatre set menus for silver-haired Islington luvvies. However, we have just one claim to make: this was a sensational meal, one of the …
We grabbed Grammy-nominated songstress Melody Gardot for a chat after the debut London live performance of her forthcoming album at Freemasons Hall. 1. The body is an instrument. Where language falls short of explanation, the mouth, hands, hips – you name it – can all express exactly what needs to be said. Words don’t tell …
Life Tips #14: Melody Gardot, 25, Recording Artist Read More »
With the artisan coffee scene well and truly percolating in Kentish Town – we’re keeping a watchful eye on the imminent arrival of Doppio Café (next to Pizza Express) – grand old dame Tolli faces stiff competition. Luckily the dame’s coffee is unquestionably fantastic. We sheltered from the driving April rain in an unfairly empty …
A Cheeky Coffee @ Tolli Patisserie, Kentish Town Road Read More »
Nestled in the armpit between Junction Road and Dartmouth Park Hill is one of London’s lesser known and refreshingly unconventional parks. Most Londoners – if they’ve even heard of the area itself (named after the Earl of Dartmouth who bought the land in the 18th Century) – might imagine handsome if somewhat sleepy tree-lined streets, …
Why It Matters: Dartmouth Park (the actual park, that is) Read More »
View North London Film Location Walk in a larger map Who needs Hollywood when you’ve got all the glitz and glamour of, well, North London? As we all know you can’t take much of a stroll round this neck of the woods without tripping over film locations (we’ve had Peter O’Toole, Judi Dench and Gregory …
Free Weekend? Walk through classic North London movie locations Read More »
Mrs Kentishtowner has been thinking. ‘If human time is a succession of declining ages,’ she pondered, as we strolled up the Kentish Town Road, ‘then each age approximates less and less what the original life-force was all about.’ A siren flew past. ‘That’s it,’ she said, miming a throat cut. ‘Kaput. We’re living right at …
Regular readers will know that our manor is proper ancient – dating back to 1206 – and has many claims to fame. But did you realise that there exists a Kentish Town Panorama, depicting four and a half miles of local scenery at the turn of the 19th century? Historians say the work, completed by …
Wednesday Picture: Kentish Town Panorama – and the old Assembly House Read More »
Sometimes only Hainanese Chicken Rice will do. Or at least that’s the case if you are my Singaporean Missus, recovering from a cold on a blustery midweek night, feeling one’s distance from the equator in a rather soggy Kentish Town. This dish, of poached chicken served with fragrant rice, cucumber, fiery chilli sauce and a …
1. If I feel lousy, I stand by the sea. That smell gives me life back. 2. Kids should learn a realistic attitude to death. When my two girls saw some mackerel lying still on the deck, they asked: ‘Why have the fish stopped flipping?’ I had to explain that they can’t survive on land …
As a supposed ‘nation of dog lovers’ we must campaign against an outdated law that says our dogs are not worth protecting from other, violent dogs
