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

The last time I wrote about Holloway Road’s Nag’s Head on these pages was – astonishingly – back in 2013, when Kentishtowner ...

T his 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 ...

1. This Wimpy Bar in the 1960s It’s now Indian restaurant the Bengal Lancer. Photo: David Leer 2. And this is what it looks like inside That’s the Facebook group founder David Leer’s mum and her ...

Donate just £2 to Kentishtowner. The bar. Photo: SE. Pints, which include Leyton breweries Queer Brewing and Gravity Well, as well as Pressure Drop and The Kernel, are priced fairly: anything up to ...

‘W ednesday is naturist night. No clothes between 6pm-12am.’ My heart starts to beat faster as I read the sign that greets my arrival at Rio’s over and over again. The woman behind the till clearly ...

Originally known as the Star & Garter, in 1885 the pub was rebuilt into its present form with striking Victorian red brick exterior. Rechristened The Old Farm House, it enjoyed a reign of a century or ...

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 ...

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 yup, that’s exactly what we’ve done. We called our mate, the artist Alban Low, and together knocked up five unique Kentishtowner plaques to commemorate these legendary party palaces with the ...

Cremma takes a chance. H aving gone down a storm in their native Bournemouth, coffee dons Cremma (pictured above, courtesy of local hero @SecretArtistNW5) have thankfully taken over the consistently ...