Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: Sabor, Mayfair — 8 November 2025
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  3. Review: The Barbary Next Door, Covent Garden — 29 October 2025
  4. Review: Rockfish, Brixham — 16 August 2025
  5. Review: The Club House, West Bexington — 16 August 2025

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Damsons and meringues

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Desserts, Recipes, Wild Food

22 October 2012

I’ve got a real lust for damsons at the moment, can’t get enough of them. I wish I could forage them easily, but wandering around Shropshire it seems as though every last damson tree is pretty much in someone’s garden and of course they pick the ripe ones for themselves. I would too! If you …

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Review: Lumière, Cheltenham

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Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

14 October 2012

Something trivial bugged me about our lunch at Lumière in Cheltenham. Bear with me, there is arithmetic. We arrived intending to have the lunch menu (£22 two courses, £26 three courses) but the a la carte menu was so full of intrigue that we splashed out (£42 two courses, £47 three courses). And of course …

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Review: Euclid Hall, Denver

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Overseas, Pubs, Restaurant Reviews

5 October 2012

Luckily I had low culinary expectations for our trip to Yellowstone National Park and the wild west states surrounding it. There were some appalling lows, however. My teeth can still recall chewing doggedly through a chunk of “slow cooked bison” that required more mastication to choke down than a cowboy hat, while across the table …

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Review: Roganic, Marylebone

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Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

30 September 2012

By now Roganic has been pretty much reviewed by everyone. If it wasn’t enough that whispers of Simon Rogan’s inventive cooking in his far-flung Cumbrian kitchen have been leaking down to the smoke for a few years, he then appeared on Great British Menu and uniquely got all four of his courses into the final. …

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Review: Gessler at Daquise, Kensington

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London, Restaurant Reviews

7 September 2012

Gessler at Daquise is an old-school Polish restaurant just by South Kensington tube. In every detail the experience has been conceived to get you reminiscing fondly about your years in Eastern Europe, even if you’ve never been on so much as a weekend break to Prague. It’s a Marmite restaurant; you’ll love it or loathe …

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