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Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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Review: Sabor, Mayfair — 8 November 2025
Review: The Garden Cafe, Waterloo — 29 October 2025
Review: The Barbary Next Door, Covent Garden — 29 October 2025
Review: Rockfish, Brixham — 16 August 2025
Review: The Club House, West Bexington — 16 August 2025

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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 …

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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: 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 …

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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 …

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Review: Furna, Brighton

Review: Robata, Soho

Review: Apiary, Brighton

Review: Ekstedt at the Yard, Whitehall

Review: Laxsa, Soho

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