Top 5 films screened in unusual locations this month
Where can you watch a decent movie in a quirky setting – in winter? All over the place, as it turns out
Lord Palmerston
Pinboard: Eating & drinking special (with another closure, alas)
1. A refreshed Lord Palmerston Despite still being minus two degrees, with a chill factor that positively makes us want to scream, pubs across the manor are being refreshed and rebooted for the allegedly coming spring (next Friday, weather-watchers!) So today we’ve battled the biting easterly wind, eyes watering, to gather a few for a …
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Pinboard: Is That a Tiger in St Pancras? Plus New Art and a Pub Makeover
1. Oh My. Tigers in St Pancras International? Not quite. But random as this might seem, the world’s biggest tiger conservation event – Tiger Tracks – is about to take place at our local uberglam station. “With only 3,500 tigers left in the wild, lack of action now means that wild tigers could be extinct …
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The Big Review: Lord Palmerston, Dartmouth Park Hill
It’s been donkey’s since we last had a bite at the Lord Palmerston: much as we love its lofty location and interior, and succession of rooms and ambiances, the odd problem in the kitchen kept us from returning for dinner. But now, with impressively-tattooed new chef Beth at the helm (ex-Spurstowe Arms) the team are …
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Kentish Town: the best pubs in London?
Kentish Town is spear-heading London’s oh-so-current real ale revival. And it’s not just us saying this – we would, of course – but other London sites are enthusing too, like here and here. So can we cobble together a chronology to all this? First, we think, came the Pineapple, a perfect real pub, ales and …
Lord Palmerston: revived!
We wrapped up in hats and scarves and headed out in sub-zero temperatures, across the frozen estates of Gospel Oak and down into the valley of Chetwynd Road
