Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: Chisou, Mayfair — 3 August 2025
  2. Review: The Vine Tree, Crickhowell — 3 August 2025
  3. Review: Skof, Manchester — 23 July 2025
  4. Review: Juliet, Stroud — 1 July 2025
  5. Review: Counter 71, Shoreditch — 1 July 2025

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Review: Noble Rot, Holborn

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

27 October 2020

Slip sole

This was supposed to be a review of Noble Rot’s new place in Soho. But someone booked the wrong branch. I can’t get huffy. It was our friends who booked, for a long overdue get together, but then COVID went all tier-2 on us and mixed meet-ups were suddenly outlawed. Our friends were lovely as …

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Review: Bocca di Lupo, Soho

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

27 October 2020

Profiterole

The latest in my blog series: “But is it still any good?” where I gradually get around to eating out at all the places that were shiny and new in London while I was living out in the provinces! Bocca di Lupo was pretty exciting when it opened; a trendy dining room down a sleazy …

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Review: Sollip, London Bridge

Categories:

Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

10 October 2020

Gamtae sandwich

I eat out a lot. It’s sad but true, I can go to a lovely restaurant and enjoy an eight course £80 tasting menu and some top-notch wine over a whole evening, and a week later I couldn’t tell you more than two of the dishes I had without getting my phone out to look …

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Review: Gymkhana, St James

Categories:

London, Michelin, Restaurant Reviews

10 October 2020

Grouse samosa

I’ve done it. I’ve reached “jaded” point with British modern Indian cooking. I came out of Gymkhana thinking a few different things: (1) that was pretty good, (2) I am utterly stuffed… am I actually waddling? and (3) does aloo chat really belong on a £85 tasting menu? Not only aloo chat. We also had …

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Review: Sushi Atelier, Fitzrovia

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

10 October 2020

Nigiri sushi

I have a new favourite sushi place, and it is Sushi Atelier on Great Portland Street. Okay, it’s a bit more expensive than your typical London sushi place. But on the plus side, it felt a lot closer in quality and detail to eating sushi in Japan (which I’ve been lucky enough to do a …

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