Rings Pizza & Kebab shop has finally reopened as Wood Grill House (in what must have been one of the slowest ever refits of a kebab shop to a kebab shop). Local kebab fans Blake and Jess popped in last … Continue reading →
Barraco will never be somewhere that picks up much passing trade. From whichever way you approach it, it takes a leap of faith to believe that there’s going to be any commercial businesses at all, let alone a half-decent restaurant … Continue reading →
If Martin Scorsese collaborated with Tennessee Williams, you might end up with something like Gary Lennon’s superb .45. Set in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in 1977, this play bristles with sexual tension, moral ambiguity hangs thickly in the air, and … Continue reading →
As soon as you walk into Waitrose’s gleaming new cookery school, it’s clear they’ve splashed the cash. I went along to the Finchley Road branch, above which the school is located, to find out whether aspiring home cooks should do … Continue reading →
So we had tube strikes, media strikes and fireworks, but what’s got you excited this week (apart from the fully functioning Jubilee Line this weekend of course)? OoooooohThere was a bank robbery in Willesden Green. A Kilburn councillor discussed how … Continue reading →
Yesterday I tweeted about Hampstead 7evens, a local seven-a-side football organisation based in Fortune Green. West Hampstead local Thom Hoffman was trying to get a team together and then faster than a Gareth Bale strike into the bottom right corner/Theo Walcott … Continue reading →
I enter the Mayor’s parlour on a wet Saturday afternoon clutching an espresso from St Pancras. The mayoral ermine is on display, along with an incongruous golden football boot in a cabinet that also contained silver cake slices masquerading as … Continue reading →
It’s been a relatively quiet week in West Hampstead while you were carving pumpkins and dodging exploding toner cartridges. The West Hampstead community Christmas market has been given the green light.I got caught up in a CBBC candid camera style … Continue reading →
Halloween is around the corner, but these days it’s more of an excuse to smear black lipstick on the rim of a cocktail glass than to knock at your neighbour’s door in the vain hope of receiving some Haribo (or … Continue reading →
What happened in West Hampstead while George Osborne was giving all our money to Wayne Rooney? The first cut is the deepestLast Monday, a rush hour power failure left Jubilee tube trains stuck between St Johns Wood and Baker Street and … Continue reading →
