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Restaurants: Eleven Madison Park, New York – three-star vegan goodness that’s close to perfection

August 14, 2025October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 10060 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.elevenmadisonpark.com/ Back in 2014, Betina Piqueras-Fiszman and Charles Spence published an intriguing book, called ‘The Perfect Meal’ (I wrote

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Burgundy Features Food and wine 

The Remedy is one of London’s best wine bars

August 12, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 6598 Views Restaurants

Website: https://theremedylondon.com/ Just north of Oxford Street, before you get to Regent’s Park, you’ll find one of the best places

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Restaurants: Urchin, Holland Park, London

August 5, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 4580 Views Restaurants

Website: https://urchinjapanese.com/ Urchin is unusual but brilliant. It’s a Japanese restaurant that’s a sister to Dorian, and technically it’s a

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Australia Food and wine 

Restaurants: LOC, Adelaide, a small but perfectly formed natural wine bar and restaurant

August 2, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2641 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Website: https://locdotcom.au/ There’s something very special and intimate about dining at LOC, a natural wine bar and restaurant in Adelaide.

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Australia Food and wine 

Restaurants: Pastel Wine Bar, Adelaide, Australia – superb food meets a good wine list in a nice setting

July 27, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 3369 Views Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale, Restaurants

Website: https://pastel.bar/ On my first night in Australia, after a drink at East End Cellars, I headed over to Pastel

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Restaurants: Balabaya, London, amazing flavours of the Levant

July 21, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2334 Views Restaurants

Website: https://balabaya.co.uk/ Lunched at Balabaya, a really impressive restaurant in the Israeli/middle eastern flavour space – a cuisine that I’m

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Restaurants: The Palomar, Soho, London

July 17, 2025 jamiegoode 3809 Views Restaurants

The Palomar combines excellent food with a well chosen, interesting wine list. The Palomar is part of the Studio Paskin

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Canada Food and wine 

Restaurants: Elma, Pencticton, BC, Canada

July 12, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2324 Views Restaurants

Website: https://eatatelma.com/ If you are heading to Canada’s Okanagan wine region, then there’s one restaurant I highly recommend. It’s Elma,

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Restaurants: Angela’s, Margate

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 jamiegoode 2802 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, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 1996 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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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

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Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
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Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 2026 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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