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Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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Review: Officina 00, Fitzrovia — 19 May 2024
Review: Steak & Lobster, Heathrow — 19 May 2024
Review: Tayer + Elementary, Shoreditch — 2 May 2024
Review: Ducksoup, Soho — 26 April 2024
Tapas in Seville — 8 April 2024

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Review: The Frog, Covent Garden

Categories:

Fine dining, London, Michelin, Restaurant Reviews

19 August 2023

For full disclosure: this was my 50th birthday meal, so I was inclined to be pleased. Yes, yes, I know I only look about 30 but it’s true, I’ve been on the planet for 50 years (and writing this blog for 12 of those)! Anyway, it makes The Frog by Adam Handling a tough review …

Tags: fine dining, London, michelin, review

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Review: Gwen, Machynllyth

Categories:

Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

17 August 2023

Gareth Ward strikes me as a really good guy. He’s opened this new 8-cover restaurant in the middle of Machynlleth high street, named Gwen for his mum, and put chef Corrin Harrison in charge, and then backed him to the extent of letting him create and evolve the whole menu without any input at all …

Tags: fine dining, review, Wales

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Review: Terra – The Magic Place, Bolzano

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Fine dining, Michelin, Overseas, Restaurant Reviews

17 August 2023

In England we’d call a restaurant “B*tchshack” or “Dumb Waiter” before we’d ever dream of naming it something as corny as “The Magic Place” but today we’re not in England, we’re in northern Italy. And at the very end of a winding mountain road through the pine forests, overlooking an idyllic Alpine valley, is Terra …

Tags: Italy, michelin, review

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Meadowsweet cordial

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Preserves, Recipes

17 August 2023

You need… 1 litre of water 250 g sugar Loads of meadowsweet (about 50 heads?) 1 lemon Bring the water to the boil with 125g sugar and the lemon juice, then switch off. Strip all the flowers from their stalks and add to the water, which should end up with a thick wodge of flowers …

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Review: Muse, Cheltenham

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

15 August 2023

When we walked in and scoped out the decor, the clientele and the menus I think we both felt reasonably confident that we’d pegged Muse. There’s a kind of up-market provincial brasserie with over-enthusiastic decor and well-dressed middle age punters where the menu is typically brave and full of all the right words (including last …

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Review: The Frog, Covent Garden

Review: Gwen, Machynllyth

Review: Terra – The Magic Place, Bolzano

Meadowsweet cordial

Review: Muse, Cheltenham

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