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Eating & Drinking

Ich Bin: Lee Bull, head chef, Q Grill

With Chalk Farm Road restaurant Q Grill celebrating its first anniversary, and a new menu just launched, we meet the down-to-earth guy at the helm

Drink

The Black Cap closed. Why?

Another pub owned by Faucet Inn has closed its doors. And this one’s a particularly sad loss to London’s gay community

Music

Ich Bin: Will Hunt, musician

The local face on playing “every” Alma Street, why Tolli should open at weekends – and missing the sirens on Kentish Town Road

Interviews

Ich Bin: Stuart Clarke, playwright

With his play about the Great War, Voice, about to open locally, we meet a man of many talents

Interviews

Ich Bin: Anna Frankl-Duval, actor

The born-and-bred north Londoner on the difficulties of her profession, coping with bereavement – and why she loves Knowhere Special

Drink

Why saving Admiral Mann means saving a piece of our history

Yes, it’s just a cosy corner pub in Kentish Town, but it symbolises what’s happening across the capital as a whole

Interviews

Public Speaking: Sam Bradshaw, barber

Meet the man behind Atypical Grooming, the retro-styled ‘Barlon’, bringing quality male pampering to Kentish Town Road

Art

MUST DO: this weekend

Go GayW3, chew on perhaps the best bagels in town, and immerse yourself in cabaret in a former furniture factory

Film

Ich Bin: Alfie Dale, 26, filmmaker

‘I don’t much like how Camden Market has changed over the last 15 years, but I still love the smells and sounds when walking through it’

Drink

Camden Town’s legendary pubs: my fond memories

Manchester-born Tim Chadwick moved here forty years ago. So he knows a thing or two about the area’s boozers past and present

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