Ich Bin: Valerie Phillips, photographer
The acclaimed NYC-born artist on gentrification, picking up chicken bones – and her favourite Kentish Town cafe
Mario’s Cafe
Mario’s Cafe – the movie
For 20 years it’s captured the imagination of artists, writers and musicians – and now local documentary maker Roland Denning has produced a revealing glimpse into daily life at the popular Kentish Town cafe
A life-size Volvo in Mario’s Cafe?
The diminutive Kelly Street cafe and gallery has an intriguing new show which launches this weekend with prosecco, coffee and cake
Kentishtowner Awards: Best Breakfast 2012
Best Breakfast is an unusual category for us in that, despite our weekly coverage of eating options in the area, we have barely touched upon that first, most important meal of the day. Why? For no other reason than resources; however, we’re planning a Top 10 guide in the new year. But in the meantime …
Community Pinboard: More Relaunches & A Dose of Art Too
1. The Rebirth Of What? As the race to attract the, er, post-Soho House pound quickens, two major landmarks are set to be reinvented in the new year: O’Reilly’s and Annie’s Bar. We can’t divulge much about the plans for the former yet, but a little bird tells us it’s all go at Annie’s over …
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Best Daytime Food 2011
1= Kentish Canteen 1= Mario’s Cafe 3. Map Studio Cafe Our corner of North London, if you look carefully, is spoilt by the sheer range of food options, from Ethiopian to Pakistani, Sicilian to Japanese. And so votes in this category covered a huge range of places, with high street stalwarts Phoenicia Food Hall and …
Best Coffee 2011: Arancini Brothers
1. Arancini Brothers 2. Bean About Town 3. The Wine Cellar Kentish Town finally has good coffee. Voting in this category was wide open, with a couple of (always apologetic) votes for the big boy newcomers Costa and Pret among them (incidentally, the debate continues to rage over how positive the arrival of these two chains on …
Mario’s Cafe
Years ago, when Pulp’s masterpiece ‘This Is Hardcore’ was dropping like a stone out of the charts, Mrs Kentishtowner (then a rather svelte Miss Gant’s Hill) would like nothing more than to commiserate Jarvis’ misfortune over a lunchtime bowl of minestrone soup at Mario’s Cafe. It’s not hard to fathom why it was, and continues …
