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 ...

In the unlikely event that you didn’t know, one of Camden’s most stunning watering holes finally reopened the other week. Sister pub to the nearby (and much newer) Tufnell Park Tavern, the Lord ...

Omar Shah is a name familiar to many food-loving residents. For the uninitiated, he’s the multi-tasking restaurateur behind several long-running joints on Kentish Town Road, including Guanabana and ...

First thoughts? It’s so like the Highgate Road original that it’s almost discombobulating. With its dark mahogany panelled walls, green lacquered ceiling, battered counter and dark wooden boards, this ...

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 ...

What and where? This charming pile is surely NW5’s cutest coffee spot, formerly known as Kentish Town Stores. Now it’s packed with freelancers, its first-floor co-working space rammo on any given ...

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 ...

“There are only five music shops in London selling a full range of instruments with the accessories and sheet music needed.” So says Lindsay Douglas, new owner of Dot’s, . After a year in which it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...