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

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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 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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Food Bloggers Unplugged

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General Articles

3 March 2012

My last few posts have been restaurant reviews, so for a bit of a break I’ve decided to chip in on “Food Bloggers Unplugged” and let my audience know a bit more about where I come from food-wise. Thanks to All That I’m Eating for inviting me to do so. What or who inspired you …

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Review: Drake’s, Ripley

Categories:

Fine dining, Michelin, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

24 February 2012

Ripley is one of the amiably well-to-do villages of Surrey, surrounded by farmland and replete with boutique homeware shops, cosy deli/cafes and red-brick dining pubs. Yet even though Surrey is the most cushy and well-to-do county in all of Englandshire, for the longest time there was a desert of good places to eat twixt the …

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Review: Dinner, Knightsbridge

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Fine dining, London, Michelin, Restaurant Reviews

22 February 2012

We came to Dinner for dinner. It would be strange to have lunch at Dinner, and indeed the dark and urbane dining room doesn’t really strike me as a daytime venue. So muted is the lighting that at first I thought every other diner was wearing black, white or grey in obedience to an unwritten …

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Singapore black pepper crab

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Recipes, Showing off, Spicy food

15 February 2012

The black pepper crab we had in Singapore was hands-down our favourite dinner in an entire year of travel around the world. So perhaps no surprise that when I asked Maureen what she’d like me to cook for a Valentine’s supper it was Singapore black pepper crab. I’d do anything for my lady on Valentine’s …

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