Kentish Town

• Belly is a new Kentish Town bistro serving up Filipino & European dishes by candlelight

  

  Restaurateur Omar Shah is a busy man right now. The man behind Ramo Ramen and Mamasons has just opened two new businesses in Kentish Town - Hoodwood and Cafe Mama & Sons which are a Caribbean takeaway and Filipino/Japanese bakery respectively. Now he's taking the space that used to be Ramo Ramen on Kentish Town Road and is turning into Belly, a new neighbourhood bistro.

  The candlelit bistro will serve up a

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• The best restaurants in Camden and Kentish Town

  

  From the frenetic energy of Camden Market to the bakery renaissance on Kentish Town Road, we look at the best restaurants and cafes to try in these North London neighbourhoods.

• Sarnie Party sandwich festival is hitting London this month

  

  If your weekends are spent tracking down the best sandwiches in town - and we wouldn't judge you for that - then you're going to need to free up the weekend of 17-19 May in your diary. That's when Sarnie Party is taking over the Camden Town Brewery in Kentish Town for three days of devotion to things in bread. 

  The festival, curated by Meatopia's Molly Hutchinson and Allie Behr of Hot Sauce

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• Half Cut Market in Kentish Town announces its first permanent head chef

  

  It has been trading for over 18 months as a restaurant, wine bar, deli and shop and now Half Cut Market is taking things to another level, by appointing Jack Newton as its first permanent head chef.

  Originally hailing from Co Kildare in Ireland, Jack brings cheffing

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• Test Driving The Parakeet - an open-fire fuelled marvel of a pub in Kentish Town

  

  The Parakeet sees Kentish Town getting a pub with an ex-Brat chef that's worth crossing town for. We went down to try it out. 

• The Parakeet comes to Kentish Town with an ex-Brat chef

  

  A new pub is on the horizon for Kentish Town and it's looking very promising.

  The Parakeet is taking over what used to be The Oxford pub in Kentish Town, which has been bought by the people behind Camden's Jazz Café and The Blues Kitchen. In the kitchen, they'll have ex-Brat chef Ben Allen. Apparently, he'll be cooking up a menu that's focused on "premium, seasonal produce and fire cooking" over their custom

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• Berberè Pizza heads north to Kentish Town

  

  They've been successful in Clapham and now Berberè Pizza have gone north for their next restaurant, opening in Kentish Town. 

  Berberè comes from Calabrian brothers Matteo and Salvatore Aloe and the Kentish Town site will once again focus on their sourdough pizzas, where their aim has been on creating a particularly crunchy crust. Traditional pizzas like the Marinara, Margherita and Napoli will

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• Patron Next Door in Kentish Town will feature a speakeasy lounge and secret garden

  

  26/9/22 - Updated with photos

  Kentish Town's popular French restaurant Patron has found an easy way around the problem of too many customers and not enough room - knock through into the shop next door.

  Having taken over the old vape shop next door to them on Fortess Road they've expanded into that. There's more dining space at the front (the renovations revealed some beautiful details from when the space was a

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• Tonkotsu is bringing ramen to Kentish Town

   

  Tonkotsu is growing again - one of London's most popular ramen restaurants will be opening their first North London restaurant since launching nearly 10 years ago

  As you'd expect, ramen is at the heart of the menu, made with noodles created in-house daily, using machines imported from Tokyo. On the menu at Kentish Town will be:

  • The signature Tonkotsu ramen, a pork and lardo
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• Bone Daddies comes to Putney while Wing Daddies is a spin-off in Kentish Town

  

  Bone Daddies is branching out, starting in Kentish Town, with their new pop-up delivery spin-odd Wing Daddies.

  As you can probably imagine from the name, this is all about chicken wings (which are already popular in the original Bone Daddies). It'll be a simple menu, with Korean fried wings with gochujang and sesame as well as sticky teriyaki, black pepper,

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• Panadera is a Kentish Town bakery from the people behind Mamasons

   

  Mamasons are best known for their Filipino “dirty" ice cream stores (that's the nickname used to describe ice cream made in a steel drum with ice and salt). But now they're changing gear for their new place, a bakery in Kentish Town, Panadera, which has opened two doors down from their current spot.

  Selling an array of Filipino baked goods, you can expect pandesal

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• Patron are launching their Maison Patron delivery service

  

  Poor old Patron barely got a chance to open its second restaurant in Highbury before the shutters came down for lockdown. So we're pleased they've managed to sort out a new home delivery service at both their original Kentish Town restaurant and the new Highbury location.

  The Maison Patron menu does sound

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• Big changes are coming to Camden Town Brewery including a new restaurant

  Celebrating a decade since they opened in 2010, Camden Town Brewery will re-open under the railway arches with a revamped space that houses not just their award-winning beers, but their first restaurant, an extended taproom and immersive brewery tours.

• The Patate comes to Kentish Town with their beef bourguignon in a bun

  

  They've been serving up their beef bourguignon buns across town and now The Patate are about to settle down with their first permanent restaurant in Kentish Town. 

• Wahaca weighs up PR cost of forcing a waiter to pay for 'eat and run' diners' bill

  

  It's been a bad weekend for Mexican restaurant group Wahaca who spent the weekend dealing with the fallout from a Twitterstorm which blew up on Saturday night.

  It all began when the former Labour Leader of Camden Council, Sarah Hayward, tweeted this:

  Hi @wahaca just eaten in your Kentish Town restaurant

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