Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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Review: Dum Biryani

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

16 June 2019

Biryani time!

When I saw the location of Dum Biryani House on the map I thought “uh-oh… we are never going to get a walk-in table here.” It’s about forty yards off Oxford Street, down one of the side roads. It’s Saturday lunchtime. It’ll be mobbed. Except no. Because it’s just a single door with a rather …

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Review: Stark, Broadstairs

Categories:

Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

16 June 2019

Strawberry and pistachio with goat curd

Very strange experience. When we got home from a lovely weekend around Broadstairs and Ramsgate (including a brilliant meal at Stark in Broadstairs – more on that in a mo) we decided to just flop out on the sofa and watch a film. So we picked “Juliet, Naked”, a gently funny Nick Hornby adaptation from …

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Review: The Barbary, Covent Garden

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London, Restaurant Reviews

2 June 2019

Astounding salt cod

Towards the end of our lunch at The Barbary I was trying to work out whether the likely £90 bill was going to be worth it. We’d had some lovely food (more on that later) and a nice drop of plonk but the price was heading towards fine dining. Then on the bill I noticed …

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Review: Lorne, Victoria

Categories:

Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

2 June 2019

Lorne

Have I reached the end? Should I stop blogging when I can’t think of any witty, amusing, interesting or tangential theme with which to start a review? Or do I have a duty, nay a calling, to provide the internet-reading public with short, punchy, considered reviews of some of the most delicious places to eat …

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Review: Kiln, Soho

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

2 June 2019

Fermented sausage

Kiln is a narrow little joint, mostly bar. Places like this come and go in Soho all the time – queues out the door on year one, vanished three years later. I’ve no idea what the recipe for longevity is, but I like Kiln so I hope they find it. Inspired loosely by northern Thailand …

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