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Kens

It was bound to happen at some point…a Strong Island post about Kens! Kens is a Southsea institution and it’s kebab shop in Osborne Road has been open for years and years but I was only reminded of the amazing mural inside the other day. No idea who painted it but it always produces a smile.

Portsmouth Urban Legend No. 12: Everyone knows someone who knows someone who has met ‘Ken’.

Photo by Matthew Maber


  1. Tristan

    14 December

    Man. That’s been there forever. It’s a proper banger. When we lived on Osborne Road all those years ago we would often indulge in a dinner time kebab. Plates, forks, the lot. Well posh likes….

  2. spellchecker

    14 December

    Shame about the missing apostrophe.

  3. Eugene Noble

    14 December

    the guy’s are always so rad in there, many a warm drunk conversation about my love of chilli’s has been had also i went down and did a shoot there a couple of weeks back i haven’t developed it yet, but i was surprised how nice they are about it

  4. Paul Gonella

    15 December

    Chidy check yourself before you wreak yourself because GRAMMATICAL errors can be bad for your health:

    http://www.google.co.uk/maps?q=kens+kebabs&layer=c&sll=50.785035,-1.091532&cid=15337088123261618883&cbp=13,188.23,,1,-0.07&panoid=wNatTnn2dCS8YL1RtJ4PsQ&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&hq=kens+kebabs&hnear=&ll=50.785221,-1.091495&spn=0,0.008261&z=17&cbll=50.785221,-1.091495

    (I checked before posting…I guess Kens is so epic they are allowed to break the rules)

  5. Tristan Savage

    15 December

    Well played sir. Well played.

  6. spellchecker

    15 December

    Aha, but how do you know how many Kens are referred to in the title of said eating establishment?

  7. tommy p

    15 December

    Mike hassanyeh did it. Got the tattoo shop in albert from opp where citrus was

  8. spellchecker

    3 February

    tommy p said:

    > Mike hassanyeh did it. Got the tattoo shop in albert > from opp where citrus was

    Could we have that in English please?

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