Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Allan Jenkins, editor, Observer Food Monthly
‘What has my career taught me? That a homeless kid brought up in care can become an award-winning editor’
Chicken Shop
Kentishtowner Awards: Best Evening Meal 2012
Our last category in the Reader Awards 2012, and it’s not overstating the matter to say that there has never been a time so fecund to dine close to home. New openings abound, and old favourites like The Abbey have launched quality offerings like Farmer Tom’s Kitchen. Votes were cast far and wide, with E.Mono, …
Kentishtowner Awards: Best New Opening 2012
Welcome to the 2012 Reader Awards celebrating the best our area has to offer. And what a year it’s been! Firstly, we’re chuffed that so many of you voted – and thanks too to Kabbee for sponsoring them. Now, with so many exciting new ventures starting up in the manor over the last 12 months, …
Review: Chicken Shop Kentish Town
The whole chicken arrived already cut up, practical if not beautiful – but oh my! That flavour
Review: Pizza East Kentish Town
Some well-priced pizzas starting at £6, a gorgeous interior – and an undeniable buzz at the bar. We are liking this new addition to K-Town’s dining scene very much
Community Pinboard: A Third Soho House outlet? Plus Caravan King’s Cross & more Streetfeast
1. A Third Outlet from Soho House? Yesterday during a hard-hatted snoop round – in which we learnt that Chicken Shop has a speakeasy vibe with long counter and open kitchen, whilst upstairs Pizza East feels smaller than you’d expect – we were privy to a surprise: there’s a third joint out back constructed from …
Community Pinboard: When Does Chicken Shop Open? And Free Booze at Cote!
1. Pizza East/Chicken Shop: To Open August 28. Things are taking shape on Highgate Road as the modern glass frontage of the former Grand Union is transformed via the application of various weatherbeaten, industrial and distressed materials. Local anticipation about Soho House Group’s first foray into the neighbourhood continues to remain at fever pitch, so …
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More on Chicken Shop, Kentish Town
Right, Soho House-watchers, the Chicken Shop/Pizza East behemoth on Highgate Road is now set to open in September (thanks to reader Joel Smith for pinging over this little cut from the latest Soho House members’ magazine). Incidentally, it’s funny how chicken is suddenly everyone’s meat du jour. Yes, it’s never exactly ‘gone away,’ but we …
The first pictures of the new Pizza East, Kentish Town
Update May 17 Hardens are reporting today that Soho House Group will be opening two restaurants on the site. The second, underneath Pizza East, will be called Chicken Shop. No further details as yet…so watch this space. But it sounds to us like they’ll be doing a galline take on the vogue for all things …
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