This 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 opposite ...

Is the bit where NW5 rubs up against N7 and N19 having something of a moment? To celebrate, we unearthed as much trivia as we could Harrington & Squires’ original Kentishtowner artwork commissioned ...

‘This is me being photobombed by Marie, With my Dad’s lorry outside the house on 64 Allcroft Rd,’ says Stan Tear.

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, ...

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 ...

What and where? This healthy Lebanese “hot pot” cafe occupies a site on the lower reaches of Haverstock Hill that has endured multiple occupants over the years – most memorably Tupelo Honey. And do we ...

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 ...

In a special slice of time around the middle of the 1990s, after grunge and shoegaze, but before New Labour and Cool Britannia, London began to move and shake to a different beat. And three unique ...

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 ...

This newly arrived Japanese diner on Fortess boasts a lovely little pared-back interior with nigiri, sushi and sashimi, poke, katsu curry and yakisoba on the menu. 118 Fortess Rd, London NW5 2HL If ...

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 ...

It’s many years since George Michael was arrested in the public toilets at South End Green, the busy little interjunction a cupcake’s hurl from Gospel Oak. So, we thought, isn’t it high time we, er, ...