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Giles Coren

Critic — London restaurant criticism, top-end and hyped openings.

Listed with the critics and writers in London.

Giles Coren has been restaurant critic of The Times for years, and has won British Press Awards Restaurant Writer of the Year more than once.

Their own reviews and picks.

Their own judgment, in their own words, by the piece it appeared in.

• The Times, quoted in Harden's critics round-up ↗their review · 2025-06
  • TOWNCovent Garden

    “a small, warm loaf of potato sourdough with 'Town house gravy', which is a bowl of hot beef dripping... pure Nigel Slater in its acknowledgement that the lees of a Maillard reaction are the locus of 'tasty'. That the best stuff in the kitchen is often that which never gets as far as the dining room.”

• The Times, as quoted by Harden's ↗their review · 2024-09-22
  • Taste of ChongqingBloomsbury

    “a Chinese-for-the-Chinese place”

• The Times, via Harden's review-of-the-reviews ↗their review · 2022-11-21
  • DorianNotting Hill

    “sunny and gorgeous room”

• The Times, quoted in Harden's 'Review of the reviews', week ending 23 May 2021 ↗their review · 2021-05-23
  • KOLMarylebone

    “world-class, genre-defying, entirely new and original modern upscale Mexican restaurant”

  • KOLMarylebone

    “all about the finest British seasonal ingredients presented in traditional Mexican arrangements with supermodern Michelin three-star technique”