Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  1. Review: Chisou, Mayfair — 3 August 2025
  2. Review: The Vine Tree, Crickhowell — 3 August 2025
  3. Review: Skof, Manchester — 23 July 2025
  4. Review: Juliet, Stroud — 1 July 2025
  5. Review: Counter 71, Shoreditch — 1 July 2025

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  3. Review: Noma, Copenhagen — 10 comments
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Review: Castle Terrace, Edinburgh

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Fine dining, Michelin, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

28 February 2016

Venison pate en croute

At some point I just got bored and stopped eating my skate. Which is, really, one of the worst things you can say about a restaurant when you’re forking out over a hundred per person. This was my main course, “seared skate grenobloise with crushed pink fir apple potatoes and sea kale”. Seared implies flame-kissed, …

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Review: The Karczma, Birmingham

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

31 January 2016

Beetroot soup - inspired

I should be making witty remarks about the completely unironic kitsch of The Karczma, a 200% Polish restaurant in a dubious corner of Birmingham city centre. But all I want to do is MOAN ABOUT THE STUPID CRAPPY WEATHER WE’VE BEEN HAVING FOR THE PAST, LIKE, NINE MONTHS OR SOMETHING. We have never been so …

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Review: Zheng, Oxford

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

31 January 2016

Nasi lemak

My favourite cuisine of all from our year-long trip around the world was probably Malay, which we tucked into on Penang island and in Singapore. This was before I started the food blog, so you’ll have to check out my travel blog for details! Suffice to say, it’s an amazing riddle of spices and of …

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Review: The Clove Club, Shoreditch

Categories:

Fine dining, London, Michelin, Restaurant Reviews

4 January 2016

Restaurants are clearly getting sneaky. Our waiter approached us after starters were cleared to ask “so which one of you is Salty Plums?” Given that I’d booked using my proper name and email address, and neither my Twitter account or this blog give away my email address… I’m a little curious how they found out! …

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Review: The Ox, Cheltenham

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

19 December 2015

The Ox

Cheltenham has been pretty resilient to hipsterisation (that is a word) as far as I can tell, but all that has changed and we now have a hipster epicenter: Cambray Place. Here you can find the Wild Beer Company, where they make all kinds of odd brews out of bay leaves and forest mulch (very …

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