North London Food & Culture

Culture

Humdingers N7
Culture

3 to try: Humdingers on Brecknock, Lord Stanley pizza – and South End Green’s BYOB

A brand new bakery and cafe, an old BYOB fave – and wood-fired slices at NW1’s best backstreet boozer

Lime
Culture

5 rebooted pubs, new cafes and bars to check out in 2024

From Lord Southampton to Lunar, Lime to Lady Hamilton, get these places on your radar

Art

Santa’s Wife’s Grotto: York Way’s art installation of ‘feminist joy’

New art collective Sisterland has just launched an alternative festive project in an ex-barber shop

Pop-up cinema
Culture

Step inside Kentish Town’s cinema space – for a pop-up Poster Sale

Movie memorabilia market to bring the former poly to life for one weekend only

The Spice
Art

Tufnell Park’s bargain set menus, cocktail happy hours and new art hubs

We unearth dinner for £15 or less in NW5, plus £5 cocktails, Chalk Farm tube’s new arty cluster and more

Leighton Place
History

More elephants! The taxidermy secret of Leighton Place

In late Victorian times the workshops of Rowland Ward were the most famous taxidermists in the world.

Culture

October: Black History Season, kitchen pop-ups, new exhibitions and brunch

A new Good Egg in Camden, new shows at Zabludowicz and a Japanese pop-up on Malden Road

History

Heard about the day elephants escaped in Kentish Town?

Another look at probably the area’s strangest true-life tale (tail)?

Art

‘Textus’: discover Kentish Town’s hidden summer exhibition

Torriano Meeting House is hosting 30 artists for a one-off show. Plus Map Cafe fundraiser and Zabludowicz

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