Muswell Hill

Having worked in Kentish Town for years, we can attest to the popularity of its neighbourhood Italian, Rossella. Tucked up on the Highgate Road, it's been luring locals in with its pizzas and pasta since the late seventies. The service was always super friendly and the very drinkable wines came from the family's own vineyard back in Benevento in Campania.

Now the family-run restaurant is hoping to bring a little of that magic across North London to the folks of Muswell Hill. They've taken over the site that used to be Giggling Squid, just off the Broadway. It's a large space which

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If you're a resident of Muswell Hill you can't have failed to notice the perma queues outside Astrid Bakery. Six months after the bakery opened it continued to sell out every day. Clearly, there was room to expand and the felicitous arrival on the market of a new property down the road means this is happening right now.

Astrid owner Charlotte O'Kelly has just taken

They're an award-winning Indian restaurant with legions of fans in Hampstead. Now Bonoo are expanding their North London empire with a move to Muswell Hill where they're about to open on Fortis Green. If you haven't been before, their concept is Indian tapas - so a series of small plates covering food from all over India.

Two years ago the restaurant picked up the best chef in North London Award from the London Curry

Updated 15/4/24 with opening date

London's boutique bakery boom shows no signs of a downturn. We first became aware of Astrid Bakery during lockdown. Run by former fashion journalist Charlotte O'Kelly who retrained at Le Cordon Bleu after starting a family, its luxury breakfast box deliveries were a massive hit in those dark times and have been doing great business ever since.

But, like

The cafe scene in North London got a boost last week when boutique cafe group Beam announced that their next opening would be in Muswell Hill.

If you haven't come across them before (they have branches in Crouch End. Highbury and Notting Hill), Beam's big sell is the all day breakfast and brunch offering, mixing English and Mediterranean influences. So while you can get a full English here, there's also shakshuka, Turkish

Magazine editor, former TOWIE cast member and general man about town Vas J Morgan turned up to open his new Muswell Hill Restaurant.

The Broadway had its opening party over the weekend, bringing in Morgan's former TOWIE mates Chloe Sims and Joey Essex along with model Bobby Brazier, Jade Goody and Jeff Brazier's son.

Vas is a co-owner of the restaurant and his sister Bianca is running the place. "Just arrived to the social