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“She Heard It On The Grape-“

Mrs Kentishtowner wishes to let you in on a little secret. She wasn’t always Mrs Kentishtowner, she’d like to point out! She wasn’t always a …

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Don’t Cry For Me, O Martini

‘Perhaps,’ I wondered, ‘she was an illusion?’ ‘More likely,’ said Mrs Kentishtowner, ‘she was a portent of our impending doom.’ No, we weren’t discussing a …

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First past the post…The Bull & Last

So we intended to do a review of the newly-opened Lion & Unicorn today, but, to be honest, we’re not sure, and haven’t sampled the …

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Did Emma Hamilton really drink in the garden at Heroes?

Spring is in the air and new boozers are being birthed in NW5 like sticky lambs. The crumbling Lion and Unicorn, on Gaisford Street, is …

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Abbey ever after?

Mrs Kentishtowner is frequenting The Abbey more and more at the moment. Why? Well, she maintains that its unflashy interior – the exposed brick walls …

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Save Torriano; Lose Liver

Now and again, Mrs Kentishtowner gets a craving to go east. Not necessarily to Shoreditch or Hackney, you understand, riotous though both are, but to …

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The Kentishtowner’s Top 10 of 2010

It’s the last entry of the year so, wrapping up our first season here at the KT, we’re pleased to unveil our inaugural Kentishtowner Top …

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The Oxford

‘If I were The Oxford,’ announced Mrs Kentishtowner, her elbows on the table for a moment’s respite from a medium-rare steak that was anything but, …

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Lord Palmerston: revived!

We wrapped up in hats and scarves and headed out in sub-zero temperatures, across the frozen estates of Gospel Oak and down into the valley of Chetwynd Road

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What’s wrong with the Dartmouth Arms?

Mrs Kentishtowner always feels it could be candle-lit and so much more cosy. Surely they’ve seen the roaring fires at the Southampton down the road?

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