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Coffee

Coffee

A Cheeky Coffee @ The Wine Cellar, Kentish Town Road

Understandably, The Wine Cellar has a strong reputation for the unbeatable selection of Portuguese vino held in its cavernous downstairs room. Local booze connoisseurs know …

Coffee

A Cheeky Coffee @ Doppio Cafe, Kentish Town Road

Anyone for coffee in an industrious space, the opposite of those posy Antipodean places in Soho and Shoreditch?

Coffee

A Cheeky Coffee @ Tolli Patisserie, Kentish Town Road

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 …

Coffee

A Cheeky Coffee @ Houspresso, Gospel Oak

We will admit we’re obsessed with finding the perfect Americano. As regular readers know, in our glorious locale we (and several thousand of you) believe …

Coffee

Free Weekend? Go South

There is such a thing as south of the river, Kentishtowners. And today I want to take you on a short stroll around Brixton, the …

Awards

Best Coffee 2011: Arancini Brothers

1. Arancini Brothers 2. Bean About Town 3. The Wine Cellar Kentish Town finally has good coffee. Voting in this category was wide open, with a …

Coffee

Ooh la la, Cafe Renoir!

You could have knocked Mrs Kentishtowner down with a feather. Really you could. For just the other day Cafe Renoir emerged with a chic new …

Coffee

Mario’s Cafe

Years ago, when Pulp’s masterpiece ‘This Is Hardcore’ was dropping like a stone out of the charts, Mrs Kentishtowner (then a rather svelte Miss Gant’s …

Art

Queen’s Crescent Market

There’s nowhere else in the area like it. Some say it’s rundown and depressing, others that it’s unpretentious and one of the last pockets of …

Coffee

Cabin Cafe

I’ll be honest, I’ve never eaten there. Walked past it a million times of course. Looks fun though, if a little confused-of-identity: Chinese on the …

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