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Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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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
Review: Da Mario, Kensington — 16 August 2025

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Review: El Portal de Echaurren, Rioja

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Fine dining, Michelin, Overseas, Restaurant Reviews

17 May 2017

It’s always nice to pair a long weekend of wine tasting with a top-class meal, but for Rioja we decided to go totally overboard and book a gastronomic weekend at Echaurren. This involved an evening meal at 2* El Portal de Echaurren, a fine breakfast before a morning in the kitchen with chef Francis Paniego, …

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Wine tasting in Rioja

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Events and Visits

16 May 2017

Say “Spanish wine” and most people will think Rioja. And until we started planning a trip there I didn’t really know more than that; renowned reds and some good whites. So. La Rioja is a northern region of Spain, just inland from the Basque country around Bilbao and overlapping with it a little. It is …

Tags: Rioja, Spain, wine, wine trip, wine-tasting

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Review: Hive Beach Cafe, Bridport

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Cafes etc., Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

3 May 2017

Hiking the South-West Coast Path could be considered quite a foodie ramble. Taking you past Ricksteinton (aka Padstow), and the home of Nathan Outlaw in Rock, along the rugged Cornish coast which boasts more and more top-notch dining, like a personal favourite of mind the Gurnard’s Head. Thence through the South Hams of Devon, with …

Tags: cafe, Dorset, review

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Review: The Bottle of Sauce, Cheltenham

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

26 April 2017

The Bottle of Sauce is a great big, new, modern pub tucked a short stroll away from Cheltenham High Street. It’s the new partner to a couple of successful pubs in Oxford, The Rickety Press and the The Rusty Bicycle. They’ve hit on a really excellent formula, pared back furnishing, bright colours, bare wood, good …

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Review: Jolly Nice, nr Stroud

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Cafes etc., Makers and Producers, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

14 April 2017

We found Jolly Nice three years ago. Someone had bought a defunct petrol station on the A419 and turned it into a bit of a farm shop. Only it was a surprising little farm shop because they made a really good flat white, astonishingly gorgeous salted caramel milkshakes with their own ice cream, and sold …

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Review: El Portal de Echaurren, Rioja

Wine tasting in Rioja

Review: Hive Beach Cafe, Bridport

Review: The Bottle of Sauce, Cheltenham

Review: Jolly Nice, nr Stroud

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