Aside from the minor inconvenience of trying to walk through Kilburn Grange Park just as the gates closed, our evening at local Indian restaurant Ruchi got off to a good start. Plenty of newbies joined a few of the whampreview … Continue reading →
The toe-tappers at La Brocca have put together a spring jazz festival, which kicks off tonight with Ronnie Scott’s regulars Kai’s Cats featuring West Hampstead’s very own Simon “Cyberdonkey” Whiteside on keyboards. For four consecutive Thursday nights, the downstairs restaurant … Continue reading →
Ruchi is one of NW6’s hidden gems. At least I think so, but maybe you’ll disagree. This family-run Indian restaurant was the only place locally I could afford to eat out in when I first moved to Kilburn in the … Continue reading →
One of the challenges that Kilburn has is that is straddles two boroughs: Camden on the east and Brent on the west. Attempts to breathe fresh life into the area, and specifically Kilburn High Road itself are therefore always at … Continue reading →
It was a cold night when 24 of us arrived in one fell swoop at Hana. The newish Persian grill restaurant tucked round the corner of West End Lane knew we were coming and the welcome was warm. Several of … Continue reading →
I wasn’t able to make it to last week’s “listening sessions” initiated by Camden to try to increase use of Kilburn Grange Park. However, I gather that one idea that came out of at least one session was that of … Continue reading →
After several months of radio silence on the 187-199 West End Lane development, there is now an update on progress. There had been a nice idea that the strip of shops from Café Bon to M.L.Estates might become pop-up shops … Continue reading →
The O2 is undergoing something of a transformation, as we’ve discussed. Today was an important landmark in this evolution as Byron opened. Byron is a burger chain that began as an idea in 2007 and now has 27 locations in … Continue reading →
The possible move of West Hampstead’s post office into St James Church is at an advanced stage of negotiation. It would be one of the first church post offices in a major British city. Yet it seems very few people … Continue reading →
West Hampstead’s Mill Lane Bistro is unashamedly French, and the new menu has, if anything, gone even further down that autoroute. Frogs legs, snails and boeuf bourguignon all appear along with other bistro classics such as steak with dauphinoise potatoes. … Continue reading →
