The fit-out was also the first they had ever done. “Without the help of countless friends and family, who picked up a paint ...

The new boozer Camden's Daughter opens on Kentish Town Road next week. We meet the man behind NW5's famous export Jasper Cuppaidge: “My family history definitely got me over any questions of ‘why I am ...

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 ...

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’s the vibe? Queues. Unless you go, as we did, mid-morning midweek – just before the lunchtime rush. Thus, just after 1130am yesterday, we strode in and smugly ordered; by 1145am a dozen people ...

Angler’s Lane is that little street that curves off the main thoroughfare of Kentish Town. For more than a hundred years it was home to the largest false-teeth factory in Europe, the red brick and ...

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 ...

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 ...

What exactly is it? Probably the most famous sandwich shop in London, no less. Really? Yep, as its own website humbly proclaims, it “changed the sandwich.” Quite a claim, indeed, but if you need more ...