Matthew

Author's details

Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  1. Review: Barang, Borough Market — 26 February 2026
  2. Review: The Three Oaks, Gerrard’s Cross — 24 February 2026
  3. Review: AngloThai, Marylebone — 24 February 2026
  4. Review: Beckford Bottle Shop, Bath — 24 February 2026
  5. Review: The Bell, Ramsbury — 24 February 2026

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

Author's posts listings

Avoid disappointment

Categories:

General Articles

27 May 2013

Restaurants do need to take care of the detail on their menus. You might shrug your shoulders and say “so what if we used the wrong term for a dish, or missed out a comma, that doesn’t actually affect the meal.” I would say, and this is a philosophy I apply to everything in life, …

Continue reading »

Tags: ,

Leave comment

Review: Gostilna Pri Lojzetu, Slovenia

Categories:

Fine dining, Overseas, Restaurant Reviews

18 May 2013

Scene setting. We’re in Slovenia, a tiny country on the edge of the Balkans with Italy on one side and Austria on another. A long weekend is highly recommended, a week if you can spare it, and we’ve found at least one top-drawer restaurant for you. A meal is an entire experience. So of course …

Continue reading »

Tags: , ,

Leave comment

Review: Casamia, Bristol

Categories:

Michelin, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

30 April 2013

For being the fourth city of England, Bristol hasn’t done well for top class restaurants. However it does at last seem to have a gem in its midst, and it’s a home-cultured pearl because before Casamia’s reinvention as a fine dining restaurant under the brothers Sanchez-Iglesias it was their parents’ Italian trattoria for a number …

Continue reading »

Tags: , , ,

Leave comment

Review: The Walnut Tree, Abergavenny

Categories:

Michelin, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

22 April 2013

I can’t resist examples of the insanity of TripAdvisor. Shaun Hill’s Walnut Tree rocks in at a mighty number 7, while Stephen Terry’s Hardwick squeaks in at number 10. Gosh, Abergavenny must be a veritable culinary mecca if these top-drawer chefs are that far down the list. Well, if the food I enjoyed last night …

Continue reading »

Tags:

Leave comment

Leave it out

Categories:

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 …

Continue reading »

Tags: , ,

2 comments