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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

Sticks'n'Sushi

74/100
  • UK, National
  • Japanese sushi and robata
  • By the glass
  • upper-mid
  • Beta
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Some restaurants change their menus often, and we cannot always keep pace. Even so, our review stands as a point-in-time assessment — it can help you decide whether to visit, and it sets out the principles of pairing wine here, which should serve you whatever is on the list when you go. If things have moved on, the Vinealto pairing app can give you up-to-date advice on the spot.

Sticks'n'Sushi is the Cambridge outpost of the Danish-Japanese sushi-and-robata group, with a drinks list far more serious than the format suggests: a broad aromatic wine selection and a deep, properly-curated sake programme, most of it by the glass. The wine-and-sake offer is genuinely matched to the food — bone-dry whites and dry sake for the raw fish, sparkling and low-alcohol styles for the chilli heat, plum sake to finish — and communicated with real care, held back only by chain-standard buying and an across-the-board absence of vintages. It will most reward the curious drinker who wants to explore sake and aromatic white a glass at a time alongside the sushi and sticks.

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Middletons Steakhouse and Grill is a national grill-house group with a standardised, varietal-led wine list built to be safe, food-friendly and accessible. The wine programme does its core job well — a good by-the-glass red for a steak at fair value — but stays shallow, with no off-dry white for the spiced plates, no dessert or fortified wine and no printed pairings. It will most reward the diner who wants a straightforward glass of Malbec or Shiraz with their steak, rather than one looking for range or discovery.

  • By the glass
  • mid-range
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