Let’s feast. Photo: PR And now, in summer 2025, a forthcoming must-do date for your calendars is Sunday 20th July, as Rossella’s alfresco dining event returns, a vibrant day-long celebration of food, ...

It’s good news to see one of NW5’s most iconic Victorian buildings home to a new cultural hotsoot. Housed in the recently vacated former Zabludowicz gallery, Camden Arts Projects is a brand-new ...

Donate just £2 to Kentishtowner Inside the rebooted Lord Stanley. Photo: own At a glance, in 2025 it looks pretty much the same, but the eagle-eyed (or pub regulars) will spy that the toilets are now ...

And yet it only opened the other day. The Canonbury Lane venue has, of course, enjoyed various incarnations over the years (you might remember it as Four Sisters or 25 Canonbury Lane). But sipping my ...

Since reading about The Great Indian everywhere in January, from restaurant news site Hot Dinners to Observer critic Jay Rayner’s column, it’s been firmly on the must-try list. Surjan Singh, otherwise ...

Donate just £2 to Kentishtowner What’s the vibe? Downstairs it’s solo laptop-wielders, the odd post-walk lounger and friends catching up over coffee. There are obligatory toasties at around £8 (or a ...

The other night we swung by the launch of Camden and Islington’s LGBT+ History Month 2025, pictured above, attended by the mayors of both boroughs, as well as performers and other local notables. Held ...

1. Bobby Womack Comes To K-Town. Forget ‘Rihanna in the manor’ – athough, yes, that was quite exciting (she even swung by Map Cafe, don’tchaknow) – a real superstar descends on NW5 this weekend. Hot ...

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 ...

“We’re very excited to be opening our sixth pub-and-rooms in Kentish Town (formerly the Lady Hamilton),” said managing director Mitch Tillman. “We will be reverting back to the pub’s original name ...

Ten years ago this summer, an unassuming ice cream parlour – or so it looked to the passer-by – opened on the scruffy lower reaches of Kentish Town Road. Locals soon realised that the ambitions of ...

How it was: the Rose & Crown. Photo: torriano-bar.com The actual building isn’t a standard pub either, as you’ll have observed if you’re a regular, although a watering hole of sorts has existed here ...