Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  1. Review: The Garden Cafe, Waterloo — 29 October 2025
  2. Review: The Barbary Next Door, Covent Garden — 29 October 2025
  3. Review: Rockfish, Brixham — 16 August 2025
  4. Review: The Club House, West Bexington — 16 August 2025
  5. Review: Da Mario, Kensington — 16 August 2025

Most commented posts

  1. TripAdvisor gives me indigestion — 13 comments
  2. Spicy beetroot soup — 11 comments
  3. Review: Noma, Copenhagen — 10 comments
  4. Spaghetti alla carbonara, essentially — 10 comments
  5. A gourmet and his gout — 9 comments

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Leave it out

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General Articles

14 April 2013

You don’t need to hear me harping on about the right way to store food. But what’s a blog, if not a place to vent spleen? The long and short of it is: you’ll waste less food if it’s out on show and not lost in the fridge. The boxes of eggs I bring home …

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Review: Ludlow Kitchen, Ludlow

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Makers and Producers, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

9 April 2013

The Ludlow Kitchen wins at local produce, don’t even try to compete. This is because it is the new restaurant attached to the successful Ludlow Food Centre, farm shop extraordinaire. Let’s see… the beef, lamb and pork is all from their own farm and butchered on the premises, they also make their own cheeses, cream …

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Review: Gamba, Glasgow

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Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

31 March 2013

It is well known that deep-fried Mars Bar is a Glaswegian chip shop staple, which may explain why Glasgow’s favourite fish restaurant has such a free hand with the butter. Glasgow has a few fine fish restaurants vying for the title of favourite, as it ought to: there is so much fantastic seafood along this …

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Review: Stravaigin, Glasgow

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

27 March 2013

Sassenach bloggers and critics seem to only cross the border with their sights on Edinburgh, drawn by the passel of well known chefs doing their thing in Scotland’s capital. So in the spirit of adventure I thought I’d look for good eats in Scotland’s second city. Stravaigin is a bar and restaurant rambling over several …

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Review: The Pound, Leebotwood

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

16 March 2013

I’ve driven past The Pound dozens of times without looking twice. Oh, it’s a decent enough looking pub, but it’s right on the busy A49, the main trunk road for the Marches. Both the pub and the little village of Leebotwood that the A-road grinds its way through pass by in a grimy haze without …

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