Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  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
  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 New Inn, Baschurch

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

26 March 2012

We rolled to the New Inn for Sunday lunch in a bit of a funk. Big meal out on Saturday night, rather too much wine, and then the stupid clocks went forward so lunch at 12:30 was going to feel more like 11:30. Given that we didn’t stumble home until midnight on Saturday, groaning like …

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A gourmet and his gout

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General Articles

20 March 2012

I explained to my new doctor that I have gout, have had it since I was 32, and am taking medication for it. He expressed surprise at my age (late thirties), asked if I ate a lot of fatty foods (no, and at 10 stone I’m hardly hefty), and then suggested I should certainly be …

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Review: Fernandez & Wells, Soho

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Cafes etc., London, Restaurant Reviews

12 March 2012

Most out-of-towners will usually find themselves somewhere around Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus or perhaps Carnaby Street at some point when they travel up to the metropolis. I certainly do. So it would probably be good to know about one of the best places I’ve ever found for brunch, lunch or just afternoon coffee and cake. …

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Som Tam, Thai papaya salad

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Recipes, Spicy food, Vegetarian

8 March 2012

One of my favourite culinary memories of our year-long trip around the world was the salad in Thailand. It’s called Som Tam and typically combines raw shredded green papaya with all the best south-east Asian flavours: garlic, chilli, lime, peanut, fish sauce, palm sugar to make a bowl of pure zing that punches with sweet, …

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Review: The Gurnard’s Head, Cornwall

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

5 March 2012

It’s been a very long day. You’re navigating along a narrow winding lane with rough granite walls on either side, occasionally rounding a corner to find yourself driving through a farmyard, or face-to-face with an oncoming tractor. Grey clouds roll overhead, to your left is a high and windswept moorland, to your right there’s just …

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