Eegon’s, Cowes
Uncategorised 3rd November 2013 0
Cowes has quite a dynamically-changing high street. During the famous yachting festival particularly, the place is bursting with temporary retailers and eateries. However it’s not all seasonal pop-ups; there are some establishments like Benzie that have been there as for as long as Brucie has been entertaining us on... Read more
Cowes Week 2013: food price survey results
Uncategorised 4th August 2013 1
Everyone says that food is expensive in Cowes Week, don’t they? But are they right? This is the third year that Matt and Cat have surveyed prices of food at over 40 outlets and venues in Cowes, and once again it seems as though popular wisdom is wrong –... Read more
Once our ancient ancestors had got a handle on fire and established the principles of agriculture they had the components to create that staple of the human diet: bread. And whether it’s with a hand-kneaded artisan loaf, nutritionally-questionable sliced white or a communion wafer, the practice of sharing bread... Read more
Archive review: Laura Jane’s Café, East Cowes
Reviews 21st October 2012
Archive review: Laura Jane’s cafe is now closed. Some people imagine that Matt and Cat are orderly souls; with a neatly-written list of candidate venues to review, fully researched and scheduled in their diaries at regular intervals. The truth is so far removed from this cosy vision of administrative... Read more
Moocow, Cowes
ReviewsUncategorised 22nd September 2012 7
Matt and Cat love eating out in Cowes, but they always approach a new review in the town with a certain caution. It seems that M&C’s style of leavening their articles with impertinence and occasional sarcasm is one that riles Cowes more than any other Island area. They welcome... Read more
Archive review: Brawn’s has now closed. The Royal Family’s junior members have always courted controversy. Who can forget Princess Diana and her lively chum Sarah Ferguson dressing up as policewomen and partying in Annabel’s nightclub back in the 1980s. More recently some of you may have clicked onto TMZ... Read more
Cowes Week 2012: food price survey results
ReviewsUncategorised 11th August 2012 3
Eating out in Cowes Week is cheaper in 2012 than it was in 2011 – that’s the unexpected conclusion of the annual price survey that Matt and Cat undertook. Despite popular wisdom suggesting that food prices in the famous sailing town only ever go up, when Matt and Cat... Read more
Terrace Restaurant, Osborne House
ReviewsUncategorised 28th May 2012 2
So far this year’s been great news for cosy suppers round a roaring log fire; or shaking the rain off your galoshes before nestling down for a hot toddy. But opportunities for relaxed al fresco lunches have been, until recently, almost entirely absent. With that in mind, the first... Read more
Watersedge, Gurnard
ReviewsUncategorised 27th February 2012 7
You know those winter Sundays, the ones where, after months of hiding coyly behind grey clouds, the sun decides to play peek-a-boo? In that brief moment everyone who has spent the last few months watching old war films and clearing out their cupboards throws on their warmest anorak and... Read more
Sails Cafe, Cowes
ReviewsUncategorised 17th January 2012 8
It comes to something when the first frost of the winter is in the second week of the new year. But it was on a cold January morning that Matt and Cat first had to scrape the ice off the car before setting off to work. Still, a year... Read more
