T his unassuming restaurant a few minutes’ walk from Holloway Road tube has an interesting backstory. The brainchild of ...

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 ...

Right in the heart of industrial west Kentish Town is a world-class film and photographic studio that's a fave for superstars, from Madonna to Gaga Spring Studios, originally a purpose-built ...

‘This is me being photobombed by Marie, With my Dad’s lorry outside the house on 64 Allcroft Rd,’ says Stan Tear.

Stephen Emms tracks down The Fields Beneath author whose writing on Kentish Town has informed a new generation of fans Gillian Tindall has lived in the same house in Kentish Town for fifty years. It ...

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 18 months Stephen Emms wrote a Time Out column on the singular tales behind park benches. We republish The Times Magazine feature that kicked it off In their celebration of life and transience, ...

The Bull & Last was first mentioned in court documents in 1721 and was originally licensed as ‘Ye Last’. It was rebuilt in 1883 after a fire burned down the original building (a coaching inn). You can ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s fair to say we were overwhelmed with the outpouring of emotion after last Friday’s feature on Lost London Nightclubs – not to mention the hundreds of thousands of views. It only confirms the huge ...

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, ...