Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: Laxsa, Soho — 7 May 2025
  2. Review: The Horse Guards, Petworth — 26 April 2025
  3. Review: Chet’s, Shepherd’s Bush — 19 April 2025
  4. Review: Mamapen, Soho — 15 April 2025
  5. Review: The White Horses, Rottingdean — 5 April 2025

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Review: Aulis, Soho

Categories:

Fine dining, London, Michelin, Restaurant Reviews

28 November 2021

Lamb belly

It’s great when you come away from a meal inspired. In this case I’m both inspired and armed because chef Charlie Tayler has taught me how to make herb flavoured oils! Take equal parts of herb and oil, then whiz them in a blender. Whiz them long enough that the blender heats up, gets really …

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Review: Sager + Wild, Bethnal Green

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

14 November 2021

Duck and fig

I love how London is strung together, an endless brightly lit web of streets full of places to shop and eat, and how you can walk in a few yards from one socio-economic area to another. You can be strolling past name-brand boutiques and identikit chain shops along the edge of Spitalfields Market… then drift …

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Review: The Mash Inn, Radnage

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Fine dining, Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

14 November 2021

The Mash Inn

I had no idea the Chilterns were such proper countryside; only a stone’s throw from London but with proper twisting lanes, bosky woods, hilltop views and bucolic villages. In one of them, Bennett End, is the old red brick Mash Inn, a restaurant with rooms. We stayed overnight in a garden room with dinner and …

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Review: Humble Chicken, Soho

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London, Restaurant Reviews

14 November 2021

Humble Chicken

Chicken is really having its day, with fried chicken becoming the hip casual eating option across the realm. I can even see KFC trying to elbow in on the act and fair play to them, they’ve been doing it a lot longer! It can also only be a good thing that chicken is taking over …

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Review: Burnt Orange, Brighton

Categories:

Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

14 November 2021

Mangalitza pork

Brighton has always been one of my favourite places; colourful, eccentric, full of stuff. But it was only after people began thinking of it as a commuter base for London that the food scene really took off. And now you get little home-grown empires of dining to match pretty much anything in London, like the …

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