Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: Officina 00, Fitzrovia — 19 May 2024
  2. Review: Steak & Lobster, Heathrow — 19 May 2024
  3. Review: Tayer + Elementary, Shoreditch — 2 May 2024
  4. Review: Ducksoup, Soho — 26 April 2024
  5. Tapas in Seville — 8 April 2024

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Review: Cher Thai, Clapham

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

21 March 2023

Fishcakes

Cher Thai is a small but busy little Thai restaurant around the corner from us that opened up just before lockdown began. We went early on, had an utterly bland green curry with wretched chunks of red and green pepper in (why? why?!?), and wrote it off. But three years later it’s still thriving and …

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Review: Osip, Bruton

Categories:

Fine dining, Michelin, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

4 March 2023

Celeriac porridge

Bruton is a tiny town on the Somerset-Wiltshire border, with two medieval schools and a rural perfection that hasn’t gone unnoticed by a scattered variety of artists, architects and antiquarians who dot the high street but wouldn’t look out of place in a quiet corner of Fitzrovia. It’s also got a Michelin star in Osip, …

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Review: Tendido Cero, Chelsea

Categories:

Fine dining, London, Restaurant Reviews

17 February 2023

Croquetas

This is the “more informal tapas bar” to the high-end Spanish restaurant Cambio de Tercio over the road. But the apple doesn’t fall far etc, and we still have fine white linen and tapas that have been cooked and presented with the soul of a fine dining chef. Not that I’m complaining about comfy chairs …

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Review: Speedboat Bar, Soho

Categories:

London, Restaurant Reviews

17 February 2023

Speedboat Bar

To be honest, this Speedboat Bar review could be a copy-and-paste of Plaza Khao Gaeng, which is by the same folks. And that’s no bad thing, I’d love a branch of their kind of punchy, authentic, in-your-face Thai cooking down the road from me! I’d love one in every town I visit. Of course, I …

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Review: The Flint House, Brighton

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Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

17 February 2023

Smoked anchovy on toast

Ah, Brighton’s Lanes! There’s the North Laine, north of the main street, and the Lanes, between the main street and the seafront. Both of them full-to-the-brim with independent eating and shopping, much of it quirky and left-field, many of them doomed to fail within a year or two, to be replaced by a fresh bunch …

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