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Restaurants: Angela’s, Margate

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1170 Views Restaurants

Website: https://angelasofmargate.com/ Margate is a seaside town on the Kent coast, and it’s new nickname is Shoreditch on Sea. Why?

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Restaurants: Nopalito, San Francisco

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 jamiegoode 778 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.nopalitosf.com/ One great advantage that San Francisco (and the rest of California) has over London is the availability of

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Features Food and wine 

Who would want to be a restaurant reviewer? Why it is a horrible gig

November 3, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2192 Views Restaurants

Some people think that being a restaurant reviewer for a well recognized publication must be a great job. You get

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Brat, Shoreditch (London)

October 30, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 6414 Views Restaurants

Website: https://bratrestaurant.co.uk/redchurch-st/ I’ve been a few times to Brat, but not as often I should have been to this Michelin

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Restaurants: Sargasso, Margate (Kent, UK)

October 25, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2335 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Website: https://www.sargasso.bar/ This is an absolute gem. If you live in London, get yourself a booking here, take the (fairly

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Dosa at Mandarin Oriental: a new chef’s table opens in London, with a Korean theme and a strong wine emphasis

September 23, 2024October 17, 2024 jamiegoode 5526 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.mandarinoriental.com/en/london/mayfair/dine/dosa Akira Back is the name behind the Japanese-themed restaurant at the new Mandarin Oriental in Hanover Square, Mayfair,

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Features Food and wine 

Yuki Bar, a beautiful natural wine bar in London

August 8, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 8360 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Yuki Bar instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yukibar.london/?hl=en Tucked away in a surprising location in London Fields is one of London’s newest and most

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Restaurants: Noble Rot, Lambs Conduit Street, the best set lunch around

July 1, 2024July 1, 2024 jamiegoode 3976 Views Restaurants

The set lunch at Noble Rot is one of gastronomy’s great bargains. Couple this with one of the best wine

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Canada Features Food and wine 

In Niagara (5) Judging ends and dinner at Fat Rabbit, St Catharines

June 29, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3095 Views Niagara, Restaurants

So, the final day of judging of the National Wine Awards of Canada (NWACs). It’s a bittersweet moment, because although

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Food and wine Portugal 

Restaurants: Nuno Mendes’ exceptional Cozinha das Flores in Porto

June 8, 2024October 17, 2024 jamiegoode 9052 Views Restaurants

Website: https://cozinhadasflores.com/ I went twice in two nights to Cozinha das Flores. It was that good. The first time was

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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine
Features Latest 

Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine

October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 jamiegoode

It costs money to make wine. Quite a bit of it, if it’s done well. The chief problem is this:

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level
Bulgaria Features Latest Regions 

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
A quick guide to New Zealand wine
Features Latest New to wine New Zealand Regions 

A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode

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Wine anorak is one of the leading wine websites. This is the latest version of the site that began life in 1999, and was founded by Jamie Goode, who at the time was working as a science editor.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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Disclosure: unless otherwise clearly marked, the articles on this site are free of conflicts of interest. Any sponsored content will be clearly marked, and potential conflicts of interest will also be disclosed. As is normal in the wine industry, many of the wines tasted here are free samples and some travel is sponsored by others (for example, regional bodies or groups of producers), but in these cases no guarantees of coverage are given.

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