A forthcoming must-do date for your calendars is Sunday 20th July 2025, as Rossella’s alfresco dining event returns, a ...

This week, Boris Johnson has been considering a decision that will affect the future of London’s most famous nightclub. If the Mayor grants planning permission for a huge development of flats opposite ...

“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 ...

What was so great about the area at that time? I was born in 1954 and Kentish Town was absolutely fantastic back then: growing up in Islip Street, the Saturday morning pictures at the ABC cost ...

But no-one – at least for Kentishtowner – has yet written about their first-ever visit. Recently refurbished after a fire ravaged its facilities in 2016, the underground retreat now boasts three steam ...

I n 1961, at the age of 27, my father, Jonathan Miller, was in a comedy show called Beyond the Fringe with Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke. With its success my father took a pile of reviews ...

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 ...

Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006) You know the area’s getting gentrified when Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett make films here. Actually, while you see Kentish Town Road and Royal College Street in ...

Please support us if you can In October 2024, Kentishtowner will celebrate its 14th birthday (unbelievable, right?). But with the demise of our free monthly print titles due to local advertising ...

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 ...

My new play My Boy Danny tells the story of a mother’s struggle to come to terms with the death of her teenage son. It examines the need for her questions to be answered, not only about what happened, ...