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Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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Review: Rockfish, Brixham — 16 August 2025
Review: The Club House, West Bexington — 16 August 2025
Review: Da Mario, Kensington — 16 August 2025
Review: Chisou, Mayfair — 3 August 2025
Review: The Vine Tree, Crickhowell — 3 August 2025

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Review: Fox & Hounds, Sinnington

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

15 June 2025

Got a few reviews in a bunch, from a week touring parts of the north of England. As usual we found a whole lot of warm, hospitable and brilliant places to stay and eat and explore. The Fox & Hounds in Sinnington was our first stop. The village is tiny, tucked up at the foot …

Tags: pub, review, Yorkshire

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Review: Embers, Brighton

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

27 May 2025

Embers is a cooked-on-wood restaurant in the Brighton Lanes. Most fun is sitting up at the counter, so you can watch the chefs do their thing with the flickering orange flames, the coals and ashes. Sizzling fat etc. The menu is small plate style and they’re really doing their utmost to bring you maximum char …

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Review: Furna, Brighton

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Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

27 May 2025

I wonder to what degree my enthusiasm for a menu is guided by the whole experience? There’s absolutely no doubt it has an effect: I don’t have professional tastebuds nor zen-like detachment, so how much I enjoyed the fish dish will be influenced by how much I’m enjoying the whole dining experience. But is the …

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Review: Robata, Soho

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London, Restaurant Reviews

27 May 2025

Today we fancied an izakaya. There’s a good one called Flesh & Buns towards Covent Garden (review here) but we decided to try somewhere new and widen our options: Robata, named for the coal-fired grills used for cooking yakitori sticks. The sticks we chose were: lamb belly, Iberico pork, king oyster mushroom, sweetcorn. The lamb …

Tags: izakaya, Japanese, London, review

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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 …

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Review: Fox & Hounds, Sinnington

Review: Embers, Brighton

Review: Furna, Brighton

Review: Robata, Soho

Review: Apiary, Brighton

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