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Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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Review: Som Saa, Spitalfields — 1 September 2024
Native at Netherwood Estate, Worcestershire — 7 August 2024
Review: Akara, Borough — 1 August 2024
Review: A Cena, Richmond — 1 August 2024
Review: Rock-a-Nore Kitchen, Hastings — 28 July 2024

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Review: Som Saa, Spitalfields

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London, Restaurant Reviews

1 September 2024

One of the first new-breed Thai restaurants in London, I was put off visiting Som Saa for a long while due to a sad episode of racism tangled up with the restaurant six years ago (here’s a relevant Twitter thread). But we were at Spitalfields and needed lunch, and I’m optimistic enough to hope that …

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Native at Netherwood Estate, Worcestershire

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Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

7 August 2024

We first dined at Native five years ago when they had a place near Borough Market and I really enjoyed their inventive use of native ingredients: they served us aged ex-dairy cow before it was trendy, and Kentish wood ants on our pea pod ice cream. White chocolate and bone marrow caramel served in the …

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Review: Akara, Borough

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London, Restaurant Reviews

1 August 2024

I’ve said it before, but I love London for its wealth of food. I’d lay good money that there is nowhere else in the world where so many different global cuisines are on offer at both the cheap-and-authentic and top-drawer-reimagined-dining ends of the spectrum. Borough Market, despite its earthy origins, is now a great place …

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Review: A Cena, Richmond

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London, Restaurant Reviews

1 August 2024

I remember going to A Cena a couple of times when we lived in Richmond; it was a high-end Italian restaurant just over the bridge in East Twickenham, serving up truly delicious Italian classics in an elegant but convivial dining room. So needing a table for six in Richmond, we decided to return. It’s still …

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Review: Rock-a-Nore Kitchen, Hastings

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

28 July 2024

Old Hastings is a bit of a discovery – a beautiful little coastal town scattered with old buildings, tucked into a deep valley on the south coast. Not to be confused with plain-old-Hastings, the newer and very ordinary coastal town that sprawls to the west of Old Hastings and eventually turns into St Leonards. Of …

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Review: Som Saa, Spitalfields

Native at Netherwood Estate, Worcestershire

Review: Akara, Borough

Review: A Cena, Richmond

Review: Rock-a-Nore Kitchen, Hastings

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