A forthcoming must-do date for your calendars is Sunday 20th July 2025, as Rossella’s alfresco dining event returns, a ...

T his week, Boris Johnson has been considering a decision that will affect the future of London’s most famous nightclub. If the Mayor grants planning permission for a huge development of flats ...

F or years I lived on Grafton Terrace, where West Kentish Town blurs into Gospel Oak on the cusp of swanky old NW3. In fact, I remember, back in the noughties, one estate agent even trying to sell me ...

Please support us if you can In October 2024, Kentishtowner will celebrate its 14th birthday (unbelievable, right?). But with the demise of our free monthly print titles due to local advertising ...

1. This Wimpy Bar in the 1960s It’s now Indian restaurant the Bengal Lancer. Photo: David Leer 2. And this is what it looks like inside That’s the Facebook group founder David Leer’s mum and her ...

And yup, that’s exactly what we’ve done. We called our mate, the artist Alban Low, and together knocked up five unique Kentishtowner plaques to commemorate these legendary party palaces with the ...

‘W ednesday is naturist night. No clothes between 6pm-12am.’ My heart starts to beat faster as I read the sign that greets my arrival at Rio’s over and over again. The woman behind the till clearly ...

I n the last half century, the building most famously known as The Oxford has been relaunched several times. Prior to its 2004 rebirth, colourful previous incarnations have included the Jorene Celeste ...

Recognise this? Kakki Katsu. Photo: SE. Kakki Katsu This small chain (with branches in Dalston and Stratford) has opened just opposite The Grafton at the top of Castlehaven Road. Spicy maki, special ...

“T here’s nowhere else like it in London, or the UK,” says Foodscape founder Michael Thorp, “where you can join a farm, are given your own vertical veg plot, and get all the support you need to grow ...

There are all manner of different ways to have your fries, plus indulgent milkshakes, and look out for plenty more craft beers too. The restaurant, complete with subterranean cocktail bar Jukes, will ...