Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  3. Review: TOWN, Covent Garden — 1 July 2025
  4. Review: The Wensleydale Heifer, Wensleydale — 16 June 2025
  5. Review: The Aysgarth Falls Hotel, Aysgarth — 16 June 2025

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Wine tasting in Bordeaux

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Events and Visits, Makers and Producers

13 June 2014

Bordeaux is a wonderful city, with plenty of lovely looking shops and a limitless number of eating options. And with the most significant wine AOCs scattered around it like spokes on a wheel (Graves/Sauternes to the south, St Emilion/Pomerol to the east and Medoc to the west) there couldn’t really be a better base for …

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Review: Septième Péché, Bordeaux

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Fine dining, Michelin, Overseas, Restaurant Reviews

14 May 2014

Bordeaux is a delight for foodies of a certain stripe. If your idea of pleasure runs to chocolate, macarons, cheese, patisserie and fine wine then this is the place pour vous. It also has oodles of interesting looking places to eat, once you get over the standard set that appear in all the “Top 5 …

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Review: Le Gabriel, Bordeaux

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Fine dining, Michelin, Overseas, Restaurant Reviews

4 May 2014

Look, this is just getting ridiculous. Here’s a general request to all the fine dining restaurants I’ve tried in France over the last couple of years: pop out, buy one of the delicious little gateaux from any of the fine patisseries within a few yards of your restaurant, pop it on plate and present it …

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Review: The Parkers Arms, Forest of Bowland

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

23 April 2014

There are Jospers, Inkas and Big Green Eggs sprouting all over the restaurant kitchens of Great Britain, and of course the food on our plates is all the better for that kiss of char and smoke. It’s easy to think of it as a new thing, something brought over from the barbecue cultures of the …

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Review: Loves, Birmingham

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Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

20 April 2014

I’m still trying to fall in love with Birmingham. Okay, I know where to find a decent coffee and a bite of lunch. I’ve also found a couple of (yes, two!) independent shops that I like. The Custard Factory is trying hard to be a bubbling little bohemian hotspot for artists and media types, it’s …

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