Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  1. Review: The Wensleydale Heifer, Wensleydale — 16 June 2025
  2. Review: The Aysgarth Falls Hotel, Aysgarth — 16 June 2025
  3. Review: The Sandpiper, Leyburn — 16 June 2025
  4. Review: The Rat Inn, Anick — 16 June 2025
  5. Review: The Beaumont, Hexham — 16 June 2025

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  3. Review: Noma, Copenhagen — 10 comments
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Review: The Three Horseshoes, Batcombe

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

20 May 2024

When the April rain and cold finally clears away and you get your first really warm, sun-soaked day of the year. Well, it’s nice to sit outside a country pub and enjoy a good meal al fresco. Which is just what we did on the way back from Devon at The Three Horseshoes in the …

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Review: La Goccia, Covent Garden

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

20 May 2024

Dough balls

La Goccia is an Italian restaurant in the same courtyard as the Petersham restaurant and from the same stable. It’s got a glamorous inner dining room with a bar counter, and a lighter outer room off the courtyard. This is where we were led when we arrived, pretty much the first guests of the evening …

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Review: Norma, Soho

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

19 May 2024

Aubergine

I’ve got to get back to Sicily. Our only visit there was almost 30 years ago, long before I got the foodie bug, and we were there scarcely a week anyway. Since then I’ve watched every episode of Inspector Montalbano (look it up, you won’t be disappointed!) with hungry eyes, and witnessed the abrupt arrival …

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Review: Officina 00, Fitzrovia

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London, Restaurant Reviews

19 May 2024

100 layer lasagna

We’re on a bit of an Italian vibe at the moment, no idea why. The latest is Officina OO, a pasta restaurant stuck out a little bit on its own, north past all the bustling eateries around Charlotte Street. Worth the extra few yards, though. Nice comfy leather chairs and plenty of space, with an …

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Review: Steak & Lobster, Heathrow

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London, Restaurant Reviews

19 May 2024

Ribeye

Google Maps rather bizarrely calls Steak & Lobster an “intimate Mediterranean restaurant” which is wrong on both counts. It’s a jolly big dining room with comfortable tables, chairs and banquettes and a huge glamorous chandelier above the central bar. And the steaks and lobsters are apparently sourced from Northern Ireland. The menu is very single-minded: …

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