What and where? This healthy Lebanese “hot pot” cafe occupies a site on the lower reaches of Haverstock Hill that has endured ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Right now we’ve got a bit of a crush on this North Road boozer, located on the incline that sweeps down from Highgate village to the less haughty realness of East Finchley. It started in the summer, ...

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, ...

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 ...