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 ...

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 ...

This new Cantonese restaurant has replaced Carrots & Daikon opposite the Forum. But did you know it’s the same owners? “We had many great memories as Carrots & Daikon, we did it for eight and a half ...

“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 ...

Where exactly is it? Just where Back Lane tumbles down to meet Flask Walk, this most romantic corner of Hampstead is like being on holiday: the cobbled pedestrianized street, boutiques, the musty ...

The Primrose Hill Odette’s site was chosen as the first site for the fine dining concept – with the idea being to scale to other cities with significant homeless communities in the UK and ...

Having gone down a storm in their native Bournemouth, coffee dons Cremma (pictured above, courtesy of local hero @SecretArtistNW5) have thankfully taken over the consistently under-performing spot ...

Filipino fusion restaurant Bintang, which has been going since 1987, is a fascinating example of how a neighbourhood restaurant can adapt to survive; it’s also something of a masterclass in how it can ...

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 ...

In this sweltering weather, most of us have probably been tempted through the doors at a little store bang in the middle of Kentish Town Road. And now Caliendo’s has just become the UK’s first ever ...