Archway

• Tarn Bakery sees ex-Pophams and Flor baker opening on the Archway/Highgate border

  

  Lucky North Londoners are about to get a hot new bakery opening in their neighbourhood. Tarn Bakery is currently crowdfunding to open just off the Parkland Walk in the bit where Archway hits Highgate, taking over the old Trattoria Terra space.

  The folk behind it are Florin Grama and Felix Ortona Coles who met while working at St Barts restaurant in Smithfield. Florin is the baker with a career that includes time at

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• The Archway Tavern has finally reopened its doors

  

  It's been a long time coming but this weekend The Archway Tavern finally reopened its doors. Archway folk might have thought the day would never come when this iconic (in the true sense of the word) pub, which has been closed for five years now, would open its doors once more. But they are open and the place is looking rather lovely.

  There's been a pub on this spot at the bottom of Highgate Hill since the 1700s, with the current pub dating

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• Plans to turn The Archway Tavern into a wine bar AND nursery are rejected

  

  In a story so crazy you couldn't make it up, an Archway pub has had its application to open a wine bar/nursery rejected.

  The Archway Tavern has been closed for four years now, but an application by leaseholder Dr Imtiaz Sarder was proposing to put a nursery in the back of the building whilst changing the pub to a wine bar.

  Unsurprisingly that didn't cut much mustard with the planners who turned the drinking and daycare combo down, saying: "The

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