North London Food & Culture

Kentishtowner

Find your inner Turkey

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Mrs Kentishtowner knows how to nurture an obsession, and since her return from Istanbul last week, she really hasn’t shut up about meyhanes, Aya Sophia, Beyoglu, the Bosphorus and yalis. And don’t get her started on the antiques district in Cukurcuma. So it came as no surprise when she …

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Free Portrait on a Friday?

Walking casually down Castlehaven Road the other weekend we chanced upon a photo shoot in progress. It was an otherwise drab afternoon, but the studio lights bathing the pavement drew our attention, as they had done a small gaggle of others. Such inquisitiveness was being rewarded with the opportunity to have a professional portrait taken …

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Guanabananarama!

‘Daddio’, whined the eldest daughter (oh go on then, let’s call her Mini Kentishtowner). ‘Why are there so many dirty glasses in here?’ Not necessarily the most diplomatic of comments, but then Mini is, to be fair, only 4 years old. And right there at Guanabana, deep in Kentish Town Road’s nether regions, she had …

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The Friday Picture: Pizza Express Proposed redevelopment

Just look at this picture of the proposed redevelopment of the 1929 former North London Polytechnic building, as annotated by understandably disgusted residents at 1 Prince Of Wales Road. What a mess, indeed. “The Appeal Hearing is halfway through,” says Alan Morris, chair of the Prince Of Wales Residents’ Association. “It’s adjourned until 28th of …

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