All hail our boozers: #4, Southampton Arms
Meet manager Ashton Millard from north London’s award-winning tiny alehouse
Southampton Arms
Top 10: Kentish Town pubs as voted by you
This week we joined forces with the Londonist to ask readers what their favourite Kentish Town pub is. Here are the results
See Kentish Town’s pubs as never before…in Bermondsey
Chilean artist Nicolas Sanchez spent the winter months on nocturnal walks shooting his local watering holes at closing time. These are the haunting results
Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Matthew Smith, Assistant Manager, Southampton Arms
Matthew did a degree in Molecular Genetics and now helps run “the best bar in London.” When were you happiest? Now is doing OK, Top 5 at least. Where would you like to live? I’m currently in a pretty ideal place: spitting distance for the South, The Heath and the tube. What is your greatest …
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Kentishtowner Awards: Best Boozer 2012
Whilst we are excited by all the new openings in 2012, we were pleased that a true institution swept the board in the end for this category. And people’s responses were passionate; you’re obviously a hard-drinking bunch. Lots of colour: Delancey Street’s Crown & Goose (an ‘always reliable oasis’), the Torriano, Dartmouth Arms, Star and …
K-Curious? Read our Pocket Guide to NW5
Real ale, art, fashion – and a genuinely diverse community. On the eve of Soho House opening three restaurants on Highgate Road, we ponder why Kentish Town has suddenly “got it”
Best Boozer 2011: The Southampton Arms
1. The Southampton Arms 2. The Pineapple 3= The Oxford 3= Tapping The Admiral This area of London has a particularly rich heritage of public houses. A stagger deep into the neighbourhood produces a boozer on virtually every street… or more often than not, a former pub. But while there’s no denying the decline of …
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 …
Annie’s Bar: What Do You Think?
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 …
