This multi-tasking bakery and restaurant will sell pastries and pizzas alongside a concise menu of crudo, kinilaw, salads and ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘This is me being photobombed by Marie, With my Dad’s lorry outside the house on 64 Allcroft Rd,’ says Stan Tear.
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 ...
The reinvention of urban spaces is a fascinating thing. Over the last decade the area has seen a fair few, from disused railway arches becoming breweries to abandoned tube stations repurposed as ...
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, ...
There are three locations in West Kentish Town with stories to tell about our most famous inhabitant. And no, we don’t mean her from 80s girl band Bananarama. This inviting red door is 46 Grafton ...
If you were to look online at sites championing Camden Town and its vicinity, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Irish had nothing to do with the area. There’s often no mention of the hordes of Irish ...
It’s Easter Sunday, and the downstairs cabaret bar is packed to the rafters. The excitable crowd await the free evening show, courtesy of drag artist Sophia Stardust – and when she takes to the stage, ...
On a somewhat lonely stretch of Highgate Road, after the busy bit and before the posh bit, this brilliant place is the epitome of everything that’s good about pubs. It’s spartan but warm, with pews ...
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 ...