Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: Khao-So-I, Fitzrovia — 14 December 2025
  2. Review: Bistro Union, Clapham — 8 December 2025
  3. Review: Wildhive at Callow Hall, Ashbourne — 8 December 2025
  4. Review: OMA, Borough — 8 December 2025
  5. Review: Sabor, Mayfair — 8 November 2025

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Review: Gwen, Machynllyth

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Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

17 August 2023

Close to the pass at Gwen

Gareth Ward strikes me as a really good guy. He’s opened this new 8-cover restaurant in the middle of Machynlleth high street, named Gwen for his mum, and put chef Corrin Harrison in charge, and then backed him to the extent of letting him create and evolve the whole menu without any input at all …

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Review: Terra – The Magic Place, Bolzano

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Fine dining, Michelin, Overseas, Restaurant Reviews

17 August 2023

In England we’d call a restaurant “B*tchshack” or “Dumb Waiter” before we’d ever dream of naming it something as corny as “The Magic Place” but today we’re not in England, we’re in northern Italy. And at the very end of a winding mountain road through the pine forests, overlooking an idyllic Alpine valley, is Terra …

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Meadowsweet cordial

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Preserves, Recipes

17 August 2023

You need… 1 litre of water 250 g sugar Loads of meadowsweet (about 50 heads?) 1 lemon Bring the water to the boil with 125g sugar and the lemon juice, then switch off. Strip all the flowers from their stalks and add to the water, which should end up with a thick wodge of flowers …

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Review: Muse, Cheltenham

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

15 August 2023

Muse, Cheltenham

When we walked in and scoped out the decor, the clientele and the menus I think we both felt reasonably confident that we’d pegged Muse. There’s a kind of up-market provincial brasserie with over-enthusiastic decor and well-dressed middle age punters where the menu is typically brave and full of all the right words (including last …

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Review: The Set, Brighton

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Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

15 August 2023

The Set, Brighton

The Set is a tasting menu place in Brighton that has somehow escaped my notice for a few years, even though it sets out its stall as “meat, umami and fat driven cooking” which is, frankly, my kind of thing. It was time to rectify this. They take over a place called Cafe Rust in …

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