Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: The Three Oaks, Gerrard’s Cross — 24 February 2026
  2. Review: AngloThai, Marylebone — 24 February 2026
  3. Review: Beckford Bottle Shop, Bath — 24 February 2026
  4. Review: The Bell, Ramsbury — 24 February 2026
  5. Review: Khao Bird, Soho — 24 February 2026

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Ludlow Food Festival

I can’t decide how to write about the Ludlow Food Festival. For a start, we’ve been to it a few times before; the first time was about seven years ago “before it was famous.” So of course a whole lot of it is familiar. Festivals are rather like film sequels, it’s very rare for your …

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Pattypan, stuffed

They look like inflatable flying saucers, they’ve got a cutesy name that makes me twitch whenever I say it, and they taste of nothing. Really nothing. Pattypan (twitch) are a summer squash just like the courgette but they even manage to underperform the humble courgette on flavour. Although that flying saucer shape is pretty cool. …

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