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And now for some good news

Architecture fans rejoice. It was announced last week that the iconic 1920’s former Northwest London Polytechnic building, on the corner of Kentish Town and Prince …

Art

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 …

Food

Light up, Light up

Into the sedate backdrop of England’s Lane has sashayed Lantern, its windows unblushingly large, its interior moodily lit, its 1930s tables rakishly salvaged

Culture

Owl’s About it?

She might not be an obvious beauty, but she sure as hell hides some secrets in her frilly drawers. No, we’re not talking about Mrs …

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 …

Drink

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, …

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 …

Drink

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

Drink

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?

Culture

Made In Camden

Made In Camden should be the best thing to happen to Chalk Farm for ages. Although part of the Roundhouse, this new bar and all-day …

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