Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: Khao-So-I, Fitzrovia — 14 December 2025
  2. Review: Bistro Union, Clapham — 8 December 2025
  3. Review: Wildhive at Callow Hall, Ashbourne — 8 December 2025
  4. Review: OMA, Borough — 8 December 2025
  5. Review: Sabor, Mayfair — 8 November 2025

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Speedy Ceviche

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Lunch or supper, One-pot meals, Quick meal, Recipes, Spicy food

11 February 2013

There was an obscure kid’s cartoon on Saturday mornings while I was at University. It was called Samurai Pizza Cats, it was a parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (bwa?), and the main character’s name was Speedy Ceviche. At the time I had no idea what “ceviche” was, except that it was food related. …

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Molecular gastronomics

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General Articles

7 February 2013

I got a Molecular Gastronomy Kit for Christmas! So once the enormous glut of seasonal food was chewed down to the last couple of mince pies and the final gobbet of Christmas pudding it was time to start playing the mad scientist… The kit is the MSK Molecular Gastronomy Starter Kit and while I haven’t …

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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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