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Restaurants

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Restaurants: Angela’s, Margate

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1619 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 1154 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 2600 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 8323 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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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Sargasso, Margate (Kent, UK)

October 25, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2659 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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Food and wine 

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 6535 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 10356 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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Food and wine Latest 

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

July 1, 2024July 1, 2024 jamiegoode 4598 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 3442 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 9919 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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Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards
California Features Latest 

Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards

December 29, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.faillawines.com/ Ehren Jordan is the winemaker and owner at Failla, and he’s quite a dude. He got his first

Exploring the Roussillon (4) Domaine Pertuisane
Features France Latest 

Exploring the Roussillon (4) Domaine Pertuisane

December 28, 2025December 28, 2025 jamiegoode
Camillo Donati, natural sparkling wines from Emilia Romagna
Features Italy Latest 

Camillo Donati, natural sparkling wines from Emilia Romagna

December 26, 2025December 26, 2025 jamiegoode
Exploring the Roussillon (3) Bila-Haut
Features France Latest 

Exploring the Roussillon (3) Bila-Haut

December 24, 2025December 30, 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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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