Welcome This week we've got 5 Finchley-enabled pizza places - plus a North London Brits winner. Barnet is a rich and diverse community and is home to over 12,000 residents born in Iran, the largest Iranian community in the UK. Saturday night in Finchley was party central, awash with celebrations of potential change and peace in Iran. To our neighbours – we support you. 🍕 5 Finchley-friendly Pizza Picks Love a margherita! Image Vit Ch BBC Good Food’s London pizza hit-list is a Northern line...
12 days ago • 8 min read
Welcome With Mother's Day coming up - or just for a treat - why not check out our local cake makers list? Plus Idris spotted on North London soil - and North London Book Fest incoming. 🧁 5 Cake Makers Behind Finchley's Best Bakes Oh-so-real cakes from DaisyBouqCakes Finchley’s baking scene is on a proper sugar-high right now — from Jubilee-famous showstoppers to fresh-fruit cupcakes you can grab on a Friday morning. Whether you’re after a bespoke birthday masterpiece or a “just because”...
19 days ago • 7 min read
, Welcome Here it is - we promised you the celebrity twist to last week's Fitzalan Road story. Read on to find out when the Beatles and Ravi Shankar got on down in Finchley. And a Brideshead Revisited Finchley connection, too. We're the email that goes on giving. 🎶 Beatles + Ravi Shankar: Finchley's Music Meetup Sitar stars: George Harrison and Ravi Shankar. Photograph: Rex Features When we talk about Finchley shaping pop culture, we don’t usually mean “changed the sound of the 60s” - but...
26 days ago • 7 min read
Welcome The Finchley Now team are delighted to reveal our first foray into investigative writing - the little know fact that the first yoga class in the UK happened in Finchley (with a celebrity twist to follow). Plus Yard Sale Pizza opens in East Finchley today. And M&S news. 🧘Finchley 1961 First Yoga Class in UK Early yoga class in the garden on Fitzalan Road On a quiet stretch of Fitzalan Road, there’s an ordinary-looking Edwardian house with an extraordinary claim: it hosted the first...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Welcome Got a great list of local fry-ups for the cold weather, and some cool half-term ideas for those venturing out of Finchley. 🍳 10 Fantastic Finchley Fry-ups Veggie and vegan versions also available When the weather turns properly cold, nothing hits like a hot, hearty breakfast to warm you up from the inside out. If your weekend needs rescuing with a fry-up (meaty, veggie, or vegan), here are the local spots worth rolling out of bed for. We've scoured the internet, Facebook Groups and...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Welcome This week we're exploring the fascinating history of our own local football club - Victorian roots, still going strong. And diving deep into the West London Flea, launching in Wembley next Sunday. ⚽ Finchley Football: born 1874 still strong Pa Jackson, suited in middle. Football looked a little different Wingate and Finchley FC is one of those clubs whose story doubles as a piece of local history. Its roots stretching back to 1874, when Finchley Football Club was formed, making it...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome This week we've got five local places to explore the geocaching trend. And we are excited to share the launch on Finchley Together, a new local community action group, built on the sucess of the Regents Park Road Bus Lane Win. 🔍 5 Finchley Geocaching Finds When was the last time you did a real-life treasure hunt? Geocaching is an outdoor activity loved globally. Finchley (and the surrounding area) residents can uncover hidden gems right in their backyard. Great intro article here. So,...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome Ready to start on those New Year's resolutions? We share some local Pilates classes to get you started. Plus Finchley's most famous Higwayman. 💪 5 Finchley Pilates Picks for '26 Go on, stretch Image Ahmet Kurt New year, new strength - without burpees. If fitter, stronger, more flexible is your goal, these five Pilates classes in Finchley help resolutions finally stick this January. What is pilates? Pilates is a full-body exercise that develops tone, flexibility, and strength. It was...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome This week, we celebrate the local legends who were in the New Year's Honours list. And we look ahead to the Light and Flight Festival. 🎖️ 9 Locals on the King's Honours Roll actress Meera Syal Finchley Now is all about community, and we’re delighted to celebrate local and local-ish people honoured in the New Years Honours List 2026. Highgate resident, actress, comedian and writer Meera Syal has been given a damehood. Best known for her work writing for and starring in British Asian...
2 months ago • 7 min read