Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  1. Review: Juliet, Stroud — 1 July 2025
  2. Review: Counter 71, Shoreditch — 1 July 2025
  3. Review: TOWN, Covent Garden — 1 July 2025
  4. Review: The Wensleydale Heifer, Wensleydale — 16 June 2025
  5. Review: The Aysgarth Falls Hotel, Aysgarth — 16 June 2025

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Review: Juliet, Stroud

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

1 July 2025

Tartare

I really love the bit of the Cotswolds around Stroud and Nailsworth. Stunningly beautiful valleys full of all manner of tiny villages and abandoned industry, swallowed by wilderness. Far fewer tourists than the chocolate box villages further north and yet far more interesting! If I were to live in the Cotswolds, I’d pick this part. …

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Review: Counter 71, Shoreditch

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Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

1 July 2025

Counter 71

Wow there are a lot of fine dining options out east these days. Shoreditch and Hackney are now huge hotspots for splash-out meals, perhaps shaped by cheaper rents while still being pretty accessible on the tube and train network? The latest we tried was Counter 71, where as the name suggests, all the covers are …

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Review: TOWN, Covent Garden

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London, Restaurant Reviews

1 July 2025

Town

I’d say TOWN is a pretty good candidate for meal of the year already. Combination of superb food, lovely setting and really excellent service. The interior is wonderful, lots of clean curves giving something of a 60’s modernist retro vibe but with all the furnishing and other decor carrying a burgundy and baked earth colour …

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Review: The Wensleydale Heifer, Wensleydale

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

16 June 2025

Fish and chips

I like the decor at the Wensleydale Heifer. It’s cheerfully bright and unashamedly personal: they like the things they like, and that’s how they’ve decorated. No attempt to design for an expected demographic or conjure up a particular aesthetic. Except I guess that “cheerfully individual” is an aesthetic in itself? Anyway, the cheerful individuality and …

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Review: The Aysgarth Falls Hotel, Aysgarth

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

16 June 2025

Sunday roast

This was a Sunday roast, albeit in the evening, the Aysgarth Hotel being one of those places that just does nothing but the roast right through Sunday. On the other hand, being one of the few places actually serving dinners on a Sunday evening in the middle of the Dales, it’s handy to know! The …

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