Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  1. Review: Sabor, Mayfair — 8 November 2025
  2. Review: The Garden Cafe, Waterloo — 29 October 2025
  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

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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Cod flaps, luverly cod flaps

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Lunch or supper, Quick meal, Recipes

4 June 2012

I’m a big fan of the recent revival in unusual and old-fashioned cuts of meat. Some of my favourite recipes are slow braised oxtail in mustard, wine braised lamb shanks or sticky slow-cooked pig cheeks. One thing bugs me though. Food writers who alongside their recipes lazily reiterate a view no longer true; that these …

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Review: Min Jiang, Kensington

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Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

28 May 2012

For me Chinese has always been the ugly duckling of cuisines. It is spoken of as one of the three great originating cuisines of the world; French, Persian and Chinese. But my experiences of Chinese food in Britain have typically ranged from jolly tasty to utterly dire, with no hint of the snowy white swan …

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Soufflé essentials

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Desserts, Recipes, Showing off

20 May 2012

It is so often said that soufflés are challenging, precarious concoctions that will collapse pathetically like your dreams of a place on Masterchef if you so much as look at them funny. They’re not! I’ve never had a problem with them, sweet or savoury. It’s not as though I learned from a pro, or spent …

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Review: The Mail Room, Ludlow (part 1)

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

16 May 2012

Blogging for nine months now and this is the first time I’m reviewing a restaurant in its opening week. What can I say, it’s not often a new place opens in a small town like Ludlow, a town already stuffed with places to eat. One promising aspect of The Mail Room is that it looks …

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Hay, hay, hay!

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Lunch or supper, Recipes, Showing off

9 May 2012

The latest bit of experimentation inspired by our astonishing meal at Noma is hay smoking. The principle is fairly simple: put some hay into a big casserole, put some foil in with your foodstuff on top, cover with the lid and get it on a high heat for 5-10 minutes. This will get the hay …

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