Now that the end is nigh for the Bull & Gate, Kentish Town’s most famous small live music venue, isn’t the door wide open for this peeling, rather forlorn old boozer? Readers will remember its moment in the sun came and went as The Flowerpot (2009-10), with its crystal-ball championing of global artists like Mumford …
1. Drink in a Highly Elegant Pub Interior. We were pleased to hear Duncan from The Stag had just taken over The Star, a hidden gem on the fringes of Dartmouth Park. The pic says it all: that combination of bare wood, white tiling, pendant lamps and flickering candles is neighbourhood bar gold. He has …
Roundhouse or Wheelbarrow? The Forum or Heroes? Proud Galleries or Blues Kitchen? Black Heart or Koko? Bull & Gate or Lock Tavern? Downstairs at The Torriano or upstairs at The Oxford? What about Barfly? God knows why this category slipped through the net. We blame the dog; or maybe the mulled cider. Still, our corner …
Last night, during a magnificent rain-soaked midweek rampage that took in the Southampton (for “expresso” ale!), The Vine (for polenta with wild mushrooms!) and Heroes (for some late night divebar fashionableness!), Annie’s Bar was the one place that we entered – and weren’t enamoured by. Why is this? Let’s face it, Mrs Kentishtowner will pretty …
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 about to re-emerge as a swanky “food pub” with a refreshed upstairs theatre to boot (a peek through the windows drew a gasp of delight from Mrs Kentishtowner the other …
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