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 ...

This Malden Road pub is close to my heart: I lived nearby for well over a decade and, during that time, from the noughties to the teens, witnessed a trio of incarnations. And now its current chapter ...

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 ...

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 ...

So, have you ventured inside yet? Admittedly, it’s hard to reconcile the rustic interior of Kentish Town Road’s newest pub, the Old Farmhouse, with its previous incarnation as the bohemian Lady ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a nice turnaround for a store founded almost forty years ago in 1987 by Kentish Town music teacher Dot Fraser and her husband Noel, who retired in 2017. Visited by endless musicians passing ...

Dhakaah is the latest opening at the still-under-performing Hawley Wharf, the new part of Camden Market that, on our last evening visit, was a little ghostly (buzzy canalside taproom Three Locks is ...