With its down-at-heel exterior and ramshackle dining room, Asakusa is far from being a glamorous spot, but its prices and food are reasonable, so getting a...

A pleasant ten-minute walk past an array of bars clustered around the bridge, this first-floor boathouse-like venue above Caffe Crema makes great use of its...

Offering pretty much everything you want in a local restaurant, Market is difficult to find fault with, and, given its easy-going charm, you'd feel churlish...

Patties might rule the menu here, but the experience of dining at Haché is closer to that of an urbane modern restaurant than a burger bar. The interior is...

This award-winning garden centre employs disadvantaged Londoners and has trained people dealing with long-term unemployment, homelessness, drug or alcohol...

Open since the 1980s, Camden standby El Parador has clearly never felt the urge for a makeover, still sporting the same white walls and slightly wacky...

The Greekness of this three-floor family-run restaurant doesn't stop at its menu. The patron checks diners are ready to order with 'Endaxi?' ('OK?'), and...

'Beer for punks', snarls Brewdog's slogan. Does that mean you have to spit it out? Fortunately not. The job of a punk, if that's not an oxymoron, is to piss...

There's a fanboy's attention to detail in the decor here (white piping on the red leather booths, buffalo horns protruding from feature brickwork, 'Love in...

Archaeologists of the future will be perplexed when excavating Camden Market. At the centre of the scatter of tawdry trinkets from around the world, they'll...

Looking for an alternative to Camden's hyper-trendy/touristy alternative scene? Believe it or not, you'll find it inside the imposing 1930s hall of the...

Think 'Ottoman palace' and Istanbul's Topkapı Sarayı; might spring to mind, not Camden High Street, whose most palatial building is the unappetising Koko...

Classy dining at the dodgier end of Kentish Town Road might sound incongruous, but the Mango Room sits comfortably in its locality. The atmosphere is...