Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  1. Review: Bistro Union, Clapham — 8 December 2025
  2. Review: Wildhive at Callow Hall, Ashbourne — 8 December 2025
  3. Review: OMA, Borough — 8 December 2025
  4. Review: Sabor, Mayfair — 8 November 2025
  5. Review: The Garden Cafe, Waterloo — 29 October 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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Review: The Bath Priory

Categories:

Events and Visits, Fine dining, Guest Post, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

28 April 2012

This guest post was written by: Maureen “Sam is suffering from a leg injury, sustained while training for a cycling event”, said our waitress. “We’ve persuaded him to stay home the last couple of days but he insisted on coming in today for your kitchen visit”. So he did. And patiently answered our questions. And …

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Smoked bacon fudge

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Nibbles, Recipes

23 April 2012

I am always most delighted by a restaurant that breaks new ground, taking food in a direction I have never encountered before. That’s probably because I have a well developed sense of adventure, and whereas an element of natural timidity steps in to prevent me going skydiving over the Sahara, when it comes to stuffing …

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Raspberry leather etc.

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Recipes, Showing off, Wild Food

15 April 2012

Tonight’s dinner was a fairly typical example of my style of cooking. Have an idea and run with it. Make it up as you go along, drag the laptop out to the kitchen half way through because you realise you need a recipe for one of the elements. Make tonnes of washing-up, put lots of …

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Review: Noma, Copenhagen

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Fine dining, Michelin, Overseas, Restaurant Reviews, Wild Food

10 April 2012

Noma is all about ideas, playing with convention, with ingredients, with presentation. With an objective eye I would have to say that the results are not always conventionally delicious. Those more challenging dishes become delicious through the medium of a palate that is hungry for new experiences, possibly even slightly jaded by a thousand prior …

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Feasting on Denmark

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Events and Visits, Overseas, Restaurant Reviews

8 April 2012

Strange customs in exotic places: charging £1.80 for tap water! If the food at Fiskebaren hadn’t been fantastic we could never have forgiven them. The waitress who explained the charge didn’t blush, so I assumed it wasn’t unusual in Denmark and resisted the urge to snark. Reading around later, it certainly sounds like a common …

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