Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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  1. Review: The Three Oaks, Gerrard’s Cross — 24 February 2026
  2. Review: AngloThai, Marylebone — 24 February 2026
  3. Review: Beckford Bottle Shop, Bath — 24 February 2026
  4. Review: The Bell, Ramsbury — 24 February 2026
  5. Review: Khao Bird, Soho — 24 February 2026

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  1. TripAdvisor gives me indigestion — 13 comments
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  3. Review: Noma, Copenhagen — 10 comments
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  5. A gourmet and his gout — 9 comments

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Review: Pizza Rustica

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London, Makers and Producers, Restaurant Reviews

5 February 2012

Richmond is not cool. Richmond is arguably (by me at least) the best all-round place to live within the M25, with splendid green spaces all around, superb transport links into the city or out to the country, theatre, shopping, cinema, and good eating. But the avant garde have always made the possibly valid assumption that …

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Review: Roka

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London, Restaurant Reviews

2 February 2012

How exciting! Cameron Diaz dined with us tonight! Okay, she dined in the same restaurant at the same time. Disgusted at the denizens of a nearby table who went up to say hello and shake her hand. Yes, that takes some guts to simply introduce yourself to a major celebrity apropos of nothing. But it …

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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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