North London Food & Culture

Eating & Drinking

Drink

Top 5: Best Bars Camden Town

Last week’s inaugural Top 5 – our NW5 Pizza special, actually a Top 7 – became quite a talking point amongst readers. So this week …

Recipes

Kentishtowner Kitchen: Slow Cooked Pork with Apples & Cider

My trusty slow cooker was the best moving-in present I ever got. Pop everything in there in the morning and when you return in the …

Coffee

Two More Boutique Coffee ‘n Cake Openings

Another new artisan wotsit opened in KT this week and we’re more than happy to have it. The Fields Beneath, named after Gillian Tindall’s inspirational …

Eating & Drinking

Best 7 Independent Pizza Outlets in NW5 (that aren’t Pizza East)

It’s been a little over 2 months since the heralded arrival of Soho House’s Pizza East on Highgate Road changed the local dining landscape in …

Food

Midweek Dinner: Zensai Malaysian, Inverness St, Camden

Camden’s Inverness Street never realises its full potential after dark. With the daytime market cleared away, it could so easily host tables and chairs for …

Food

Kentishtowner Kitchen: Oliver Rowe’s Bechamel Sauce

White sauce was the first thing I learnt how to cook and is, ostensibly, a very easy thing to make. However, it took me a …

Food

Review: Meadows Cafe by night, Kentish Town Road

As we’ve said before, Meadows Cafe is the kind of place you could walk past a thousand times without going in. But a few weeks …

Food

Big Review: Sshh Supper Club at Somerstown Coffee House, NW1

Throughout, the atmosphere was convivial with not a po-faced attitude in sight

Books

Community Pinboard: Green-fingered Poetry, Dance Around The World – and a Reader Warning

1. Get Out of the Garden and into the Pub. We haven’t been to the Colonel Fawcett – formerly one of our favourite openings this …

Food

Kentishtowner Kitchen: Romesco Sauce – With Lamb or Eggs?

Romesco sauce is a staple round ours. It perks up a bit of pan-fried bream, is the perfect chaperone for chicken or lamb, and gives …

About Kentishtowner

The award-winning print and online title Kentishtowner was founded in 2010 and is part of London Belongs To Me, a citywide network of travel guides for locals. For more info on what we write about and why, see our About section.