Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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Review: The Hare & Billet, Blackheath

Categories:

London, Pubs, Restaurant Reviews

7 April 2019

Roast chicken

Chicken is almost always at the bottom of my menu choices. It’s just… chicken. I sometimes get the feeling chefs put it on the menu with a big implicit label: “For Nervous Diners! The Safe Option!” because it tends to get put on a plate with some fairly boring accompaniments too. Then of course sometimes …

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Review: A Wong, Victoria

Categories:

Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

4 April 2019

Goldfish dumplings! Awwww!qGoldfish dumplings! Awwww!

I could not stop laughing at the goldfish dumplings. An awful lot of effort had gone into artfully crafting something so beautifully naff. And I just didn’t get the dish either. The little goldfish had minced prawn inside them, which was a bit boring, and were accompanied by a piece of seared foie gras. Why? …

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Review: Copper and Ink, Blackheath

Categories:

Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

4 April 2019

Choc tart AND BASIL SORBET OF GOD!

There’s a helluva lot of care and attention that goes into fine dining – even informal fine dining – that you only notice when it’s absent. When our dessert showed up at Copper and Ink, with two cubes of chiffon cake, there was plenty of jealous comparing going on; lucky me, my cubes were nearly …

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Review: The Rattle Owl, York

Categories:

Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

18 March 2019

Beef

Hey, front of house folks. If you have a table of braying, cackling, bellowing morons dining in your restaurant then I totally understand that there’s not much you can do about it. The other tables seated nearby trying to enjoy a friendly Sunday lunch really do just have to put up with the raucous, ear-shattering, …

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Review: Le Cochon Aveugle, York

Categories:

Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

18 March 2019

Boudin noir macaron

York is an awesome city to visit, absolutely saturated in history, very beautiful, and more and more full of great places for a coffee or a full-on feast. There’s even a medieval beer hall. And now imma give you a tip on a lesser known place to visit in York that I found every bit …

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