Camden Town from Hampstead Road, 1780. Note the words ‘A change for the worse’ at the top. Image: British Library Camden Town is famed for its pubs, from unreconstructed Irish bars to the most ...

For 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 ...

For years, we’ve stared at the late Victorian plaque at the top of this building and wondered why no-one considered its original moniker during its many recent incarnations. Until this week, that is, ...

remember it like it was yesterday, though a flick through my back catalogue online indicates that it happened in the summer of 2004. A beautiful old pub restaurant in Highgate had reopened under new ...

With long embedded memories of North London’s loftiest village being home to chains like Cafe Rouge, Caffe Nero and Pain Quotidien, it’s refreshing to see that in the last few years it’s been ...

Originally the Star & Garter, what's next for the former Old Farm House, O'Reilly's and Camden's Daughter ? First there was the post on Instagram: “This is your captains speaking: Thanks for ...

Along with the rest of the capital’s Heath walkers, both occasional and regular, I first encountered Funny Weather, NW5’s entirely delightful new coffee shop and bookstore, after a blustery circuit of ...

Metro's film editor Larushka Ivan-Zadeh didn't expect the Hollywood star to be name-checking this very tome A regular reader: Damian Lewis. Photo: Creative Commons Yesterday I interviewed Damian Lewis ...

Seven long years ago, we wrote a paean to the watery arrival of London Shell Co, a floating seafood restaurant at Paddington Basin helmed by a brother-sister duo, Harry and Leah Lobek (read the ...

An enchanting leafy terrace with an artistic past: Mall Studios. Pic by Stephen Emms Just at the summit of the winding alleyway that leads from Gospel Oak to leafy Belsize Park is Mall Studios, a ...