feasting
RECIPES MAT FOLLAS PHOTOGRAPHS STEVE PAINTER EDITED BY DANIELLE WOODWARD
Winner of MasterChef in 2009, Mat Follas opened the Bramble Cafe & Deli in 2016, near his home in Dorset, where he lives with his family. Despite growing up in New Zealand, Mat admits that the food he is drawn to is ‘traditional English fare’, and there is nothing more traditional than afternoon tea which, for Mat, is a treasured childhood memory. ‘I remember having afternoon tea with my grandmother in a cafe in Auckland; it felt like entering another world, one where the pace was slower, the tea was served in teapots, and the cakes looked like little works of art’, he says.