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Eat your heart out, London: the boom in the provincial restaurant scene

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080811
Author:Martin Hickman Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in a damp building there. Jerome K Jerome ensured his three men in a boat passed by in their skiff. Nowadays, though, Marlow is getting more of a name for its food than its writers.

A plan to open a branch of the London restaurant Aubergine, where Gordon Ramsay began his career, has shone a spotlight on the Buckinghamshire town's growing reputation as a gastronomic hot spot.

Several top chefs including Adam Simmonds, Tom Kerridge and Michael Macdonald have moved into the Georgian settlement and gourmet day trippers are arriving from the capital to sample their ...

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