Amidst the recent broadsheet brouhaha surrounding thinking person’s kebab shop E.Mono, I found myself in need of a particular type of sustenance one Sunday evening. Returning from a 1-year-old’s birthday party with a 40-year-old’s bash yet to come, it was high time for something more than watermelon and Prosecco. The children’s event had observed a …
With the media flurry about our enviable local ale drinking options continuing apace, the Kentishtowner couldn’t resist a trip under the railway arches to see the area’s very own brewery in action. Spanning out beneath Kentish Town West station amid sacks of wheat and stacks of kegs, the Camden Brewery team are working flat out …
Mrs Kentishtowner is quite happy to admit that she is not a festival person. The only night she recalls under the stars was at the Secret Garden Party, back in 05, where she was forced to flee at the crack of dawn from the maddening thwub of teenage revellers in the tent next door. And …
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Like many residents, we’ve long had a soft spot for graf artist Mr P’s fabulous ‘Kentish Town!’ work, which livens up a brick wall behind the tube, and has greeted thousands of commuters and visitors since it appeared back in 2005. And we’re happy to report that this week it’s had a facelift; not only …
Now, we have to ‘fess up. We still have yet to visit Leighton Space, the new gallery and studios just a few minutes’ walk from KT tube station. Yet here they are, already on their second (third?) exhibition, so this time round we’ve marked the calendar with a black pen -and promise to report back. …
Brilliantly non-dry, The Fields Beneath, originally written in the late 70s, reinforces the nagging feeling that history is cyclical
So we intended to do a review of the newly-opened Lion & Unicorn today, but, to be honest, we’re not sure, and haven’t sampled the food or theatre yet, so rather than dismiss it we’ll let it bed in a bit. It’s not that we don’t like the joint: the walled garden, the rather self-consciously …
Or should that be tortoise? So this year they’ve thrown Kentish Town into the mix. Yes, for the first time, the industrious, annual Camden Crawl staggers north up Kentish Town Road until it collapses, light-headed, and perhaps a bit icky, at The Forum. (En route it swings by such stellar venues as the Abbey Tavern, …
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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Another week, another gallery or three. But it’s nice to see this one opening outside the West Kentish Town ghetto and in the previously artistically-untapped “Leightons” area just east of the Assembly House pub. Leighton Space , says the blurb, provides the “opportunity for professional artists to show work at all stages and in a …
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