Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: Rockfish, Brixham — 16 August 2025
  2. Review: The Club House, West Bexington — 16 August 2025
  3. Review: Da Mario, Kensington — 16 August 2025
  4. Review: Chisou, Mayfair — 3 August 2025
  5. Review: The Vine Tree, Crickhowell — 3 August 2025

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  1. TripAdvisor gives me indigestion — 13 comments
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  3. Review: Noma, Copenhagen — 10 comments
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Review: Old Hall Persian, Dorrington

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

2 February 2013

Persian is one of the three “grand cuisines”, along with French and Chinese. For me it conjures up images of delicate meats cooked with perfumed spices and exotic fruits. Yet it isn’t something you see a lot of in provincial towns and cities (well, unless you want to count doner kebabs as cuisine). So to …

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Steak tartare

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General Articles, Lunch or supper, One-pot meals, Quick meal, Recipes

26 January 2013

Whenever I visit France I throw myself at the steak tartare like a love-struck fool. Because absence makes the heart grow fonder and this simple dish is harder to find on UK menus than beetroot macarons. Not impossible, I grant. But don’t bother telling me about the one posh brasserie in London you know of …

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Review: The Unicorn, Ludlow

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

20 January 2013

I’m sometimes tempted to make allowances for duff food on the grounds that at least it was cheap. But that’s daft. I’m a half-decent home cook, no Delia but no bad either. So I can confidently state that it doesn’t cost more money to cook crunchy chips, it just requires that you cook them right. …

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Khao Soi, Northern Thai Curry

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One-pot meals, Recipes, Spicy food

12 January 2013

If you haven’t been to Thailand, you really should. I recommend spending two weeks exploring north from Bangkok, inland, and then relaxing for two days on a beach at the end before going home. We have such brilliant memories of our eight weeks there, and no more so than a week in the city of …

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Review: Churchill Arms, Gloucestershire

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

5 January 2013

Is it fair to review a restaurant that you visited on a “special” day? In this case, New Years Day for lunch. My friend Tim was quite prescient in saying “we shouldn’t expect too much, the staff will be tired after last night.” But surely a restaurant should only open its doors if it is …

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