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Smashed special: “I felt like I had a head chef again”: Chef Matty Grove on MasterChef: The Professionals
The Bristol chef on filming MasterChef, his path from hairdressing to the kitchen, and the butter-rich bistro cooking he’s built at Caper and Cure.
Matty Grove is head chef at Caper and Cure, the Bristol neighbourhood bistro where he has c...
Smashed #90: Review of the restaurant reviews: Gordon Ramsay, Cassette, The Horses, Miokuru, Kid
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Camilla Long, The Sunday Times
Gordon Ramsay at Sea Containers, London (1 star)
The Sea, because I don’t have a PR contact for the restaurant. Photo by Sean Oulashin on Unsplash
He’s not, though, is he? At...
Smashed: Who will save UK hospitality?
Will this unlikely player save the UK’s hospitality industry?
Tom Kerridge et al. have been banging on about a cut in the VAT rate for hospitality down to 10 per cent for what seems like eternity. Now they’ve delivered a petition to 1...
Smashed #89: ‘Maybe the whole idea of a restaurant review has had its day.’
Review of the restaurant reviews: The UK restaurant scene digested
My last review of the restaurant reviews was way back on the 19th of August in Smashed #88. That’s partly because I’ve been ill with Covid (and still feeling the after-effe...
Smashed: My Last Meal is none of your business
Photo by Europeana on Unsplash
At a gala hotel dinner I attended a while back, the guest chefs came into the restaurant to answer customers’ questions. Inevitably, one was, ‘What would be your last meal?’ The reply involved large quantitie...
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I am a freelance writer and author specialising in food, drink and travel. I've been writing about restaurants and chefs for the national press for over two decades.
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