Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

Latest posts

  1. Review: Sabor, Mayfair — 8 November 2025
  2. Review: The Garden Cafe, Waterloo — 29 October 2025
  3. Review: The Barbary Next Door, Covent Garden — 29 October 2025
  4. Review: Rockfish, Brixham — 16 August 2025
  5. Review: The Club House, West Bexington — 16 August 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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Literally panna cotta

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Desserts, Recipes

26 January 2012

This is ridiculously simple and I feel a bit of a fraud offering it up as a “recipe”. But one of my best friends has never ordered panna cotta in a restaurant in the last five years, and the reason given is: “because it won’t be as good as yours”. High praise indeed! Except this …

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Muddy Michelin waters

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General Articles

22 January 2012

My most unusual Michelin-starred meal must be Tim Ho Wan, a tiny restaurant tucked away in a backwater neighbourhood of Kowloon, Hong Kong. They seated about thirty, shoulder to shoulder in a room no bigger than my lounge, with décor to remind you of your local Chinese takeaway several thousand miles away. We had a …

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Kedgeree and egg rage

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Lunch or supper, Quick meal, Recipes

18 January 2012

I had a fit of food rage today, a wee glimpse of the kind of stress that causes top chefs to bawl out their sous and spank their commis with ladles. Well, I managed to screw up boiling a couple of eggs for gawd’s sake! As Maureen so poignantly put it on Twitter: “should you …

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Review: Green Cafe, Ludlow

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Cafes etc., Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

14 January 2012

It’s terribly inconsiderate of The Green Cafe to close throughout January. Who said they could have a holiday? I want lunch! I want the best chicken liver pate ever created, with crispy bits of French stick toast and the most fruity and punchy fig chutney to cut the savoury meatiness perfectly. I want a bowl …

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Foodie spending

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General Articles

11 January 2012

How much do I spend on food? This post was inspired by the first post of an interesting new blogger, The Skint Foodie, who has pointed up the nonsense of most government statistics on the subject of how much households spend on food. Apparently the most affluent 20% of us spend £38 per person per …

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