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Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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Review: The Wensleydale Heifer, Wensleydale — 16 June 2025
Review: The Aysgarth Falls Hotel, Aysgarth — 16 June 2025
Review: The Sandpiper, Leyburn — 16 June 2025
Review: The Rat Inn, Anick — 16 June 2025
Review: The Beaumont, Hexham — 16 June 2025

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Review: Apiary, Brighton

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Cafes etc., Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

27 May 2025

Apiary is a smart little bar that looks out of place in the middle of Western Road – it ought to be in a much hipper corner of Brighton. But it’s worth seeking out. We stopped off for drinks on Saturday evening and then breakfast on Sunday, and if I superimpose the two then I …

Tags: Brighton, mead, review

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Review: Ekstedt at the Yard, Whitehall

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Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

19 May 2025

Ekstedt at the Yard is one of those restaurants that has gone all-in, put the gas and electric out to pasture, and claims to cook the entire menu on wood. This is why there is a mighty pizza oven just by the chef’s table, ensuring an extremely cosy evening no matter how many layers you …

Tags: fine dining, London, review

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Review: Laxsa, Soho

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London, Restaurant Reviews

7 May 2025

This year we’ve been doing a tour of SE Asia without leaving London. So far we’ve eaten Thai at Chet’s, Cambodian at Mamapen, Burmese at Lahpet, Filipino brunch at Kapihan and Laotian at Lao Cafe. Needing a bite of lunch in the middle of town today, we hit up Laxsa, a tiny Malaysian place in …

Tags: London, Malay, review

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Review: The Horse Guards, Petworth

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

26 April 2025

The perils of building a pub lunch into a proper walk in the country. By “proper” I mean a 16km hike, not a hour’s stroll. And the perils are clear: not eating enough beforehand (worried about not having an appetite) and so getting starving hungry on the walk, making the last hill before the pub …

Tags: pub, review, Sussex

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Review: Chet’s, Shepherd’s Bush

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London, Restaurant Reviews

19 April 2025

I remember the first (only?) Thai meal I had in America. This was, admittedly, almost eighteen years ago in California. Huge chunks of chicken breast, capsicum peppers, baby sweetcorn, all bathed in a sauce that was gunky and thick with coconut cream and flavoured with… well, nothing. Just the mildest hint of some familiar Thai …

Tags: London, review, Thai

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Review: Apiary, Brighton

Review: Ekstedt at the Yard, Whitehall

Review: Laxsa, Soho

Review: The Horse Guards, Petworth

Review: Chet’s, Shepherd’s Bush

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