Hoodwood’s new Jacket Potato range contains three delicious options. First up is the Jerk Jacket (£13, pictured above), a ...

Returning as part of the festival is Slomo, the popular under-canvas contrast therapy experience by wellbeing practitioners, ...

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 ...

Back in 2013, author Gillian Tindall, who died last week, invited me to her “Kentish Town hideaway”. It was an honour as she was the brains behind one of my favourite books, The Fields Beneath, an ...

Jose Nava at his exhibition at the Koppel Project before his death. Photo: PR A fisherman turned self-taught artist, Jose Nava was born in 1937 and grew up in the barrios of Acapulco on the pacific ...

As you’ll know if you live in the area, Highgate Road is the ancient pub-lined thoroughfare that – in 2025 at least – is where the urban buzz of Kentish Town starts to give way to the leafy streets of ...

Its story goes back to the turn of the last century - and it's been immortalised by local artists over the years Nearly one hundred and twety-five years ago, the local authority – then St Pancras – ...

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 plaque at the top of this landmark Kentish Town Road building and wondered why no-one considered using its original Victorian moniker during its many recent incarnations ...

So, it was au revoir recently to the longstanding Saint Espresso – and hello to this latest opening on Kentish Town Road. Lilac originates from Nottingham, but it appears to pop up all over the place.

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, ...