Edible Reading

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Often imitated, never bettered: Reading's only restaurant blog, as featured in the Sunday Times and the Mail On Sunday. Established 2013.

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NEW REVIEW! This week, a really remarkable lunch somewhere a little bit different: https://ediblereading.com/2024/07/19/restaurant-review-lucky-lychee-winchester/
Restaurant review: Lucky Lychee, Winchester

Even though Reading is my patch and always has been, I get asked for recommendations elsewhere fairly often. And my blog is more useful in that respect, I hope, than it used to be, with a number of…

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Truly joyous chicken satay and peanut sauce at the Moderation. One last plug for the brand new ER review: https://ediblereading.com/2024/04/19/pub-review-the-moderation/ #rdguk
Pub review: The Moderation

In 2013, the first year of this blog, I reviewed the grand total of fourteen Reading restaurants (don’t hold it against me, I only started in August). And there must have been something about…

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One last plug this weekend for the new ER review - some really accomplished cooking at The Plough: https://ediblereading.com/2024/04/12/pub-review-the-plough-shiplake/
Pub review: The Plough, Shiplake

I still remember the first time I gave out a really good rating on this blog. It was towards the end of 2013, when we were all a lot younger and more carefree, and my blog had been running for just…

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NEW REVIEW! This week, I visit the kind of local country pub I normally don’t get to try, and revisit the site of one of my favourite ever venues: https://ediblereading.com/2024/04/12/pub-review-the-plough-shiplake/ #rdguk
Pub review: The Plough, Shiplake

I still remember the first time I gave out a really good rating on this blog. It was towards the end of 2013, when we were all a lot younger and more carefree, and my blog had been running for just…

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The new ER post gives a comprehensive, updated guide to the very best places to eat in Ghent - a fascinating city easily reachable on the Eurostar. Hope you like it! https://ediblereading.com/2024/04/05/city-guide-bruges-and-ghent-2024/
City guide: Bruges and Ghent (2024)

My last guide to Bruges and Ghent was a bit of a patchwork quilt: I first published it in summer 2022 after a trip to both cities, and I’ve gradually added to it over the past couple of years becau…

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The response to this week’s review has been fantastic. It’s a trip to Oxford this time, and a restaurant that’s been feeding me - and some of you, by the sounds of it - for decades: https://ediblereading.com/2024/03/15/restaurant-review-pierre-victoire-oxford/
Restaurant review: Pierre Victoire, Oxford

I had to check because I thought my mind might be playing tricks, but there used to be a French restaurant chain called Pierre Victoire, the Côte of its day, thirty years ago. I remember eating in …

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Really delighted to have been included by a piece on solo dining in today's Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/solo-dining-uk-restaurants-b2480198.html
Solo dining is on the rise in the UK – here’s how (and why) to do it

Almost one in six of us in Britain enjoy eating out alone, and restaurants are catching up with a trend that is no longer seen as strange or taboo. Freed from the unwanted table in the corner, solo dining is booming, discovers Francesca Specter, who also picks out five places that are perfect for a glorious meal (without unwanted company!)

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One last plug this weekend for the first ER review of 2024. It’s of Castle Street’s small but perfectly formed Filter Coffee House: https://ediblereading.com/2024/01/19/cafe-review-filter-coffee-house/ #rdguk
Café review: Filter Coffee House

Filter Coffee House, a tiny café on Castle Street offering authentic South Indian coffee, opened last August. It occupies a unit which as far as I can remember used to be home to a very small, rath…

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Merry Christmas, everyone!
NEW POST! This week, a look back at 2023 in Reading food and drink. Will it mostly be remembered as the year we lost the Grumpy Goat? https://ediblereading.com/2023/12/22/2023-the-year-in-review/ #rdguk
2023: The Year In Review

It’s a shame to start this piece with an apology, but I’m afraid I’ll have to. Normally when I sit down to sum up the year nearly gone, as is traditional by now, I’m fairly chipper: the working yea…

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