Giles Coren
| Giles Coren | |
|---|---|
| Born |
29 July 1969 Paddington, London, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Kentish Town, London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Food critic, journalist, TV presenter and writer |
| Employer | BBC, ITV and The Times |
| Spouse(s) | Esther Walker (m. 2010) |
| Parent(s) |
Alan Coren (deceased) Anne Coren (née Kasriel) |
| Relatives |
Victoria Coren Mitchell (sister) David Mitchell (brother-in-law) |
Giles Coren (born 29 July 1969) is a British columnist and restaurant critic for The Times newspaper and has written various articles for the Independent on Sunday, Tatler and GQ in the past. He was named Food and Drink Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2005. He has co-starred with Sue Perkins in Edwardian Supersize Me and The Supersizers Go series for the BBC. His first novel, Winkler, was published in 2005.
Coren was born in Paddington, London, the son of Anne (née Kasriel) and English humourist Alan Coren and elder brother of journalist Victoria Coren Mitchell. Coren is Jewish. His wife Esther Walker, a journalist and food blogger is the sister of Hannah Snow who is married to the comedian Alexander Armstrong. He is related to the Canadian journalist Michael Coren.
He was educated at The Hall School in Hampstead,Westminster School, and achieved a First Class degree in English at Keble College, Oxford.
Coren has two children, Kitty and Sam.
Coren has been a restaurant critic for the British newspaper The Times since 1993, and was named "Food And Drink Writer of the Year" at the 2005 British Press Awards and in 2016 was named Restaurant Writer of the Year at the Fortnum and Mason Awards. As well as restaurant reviews, he also contributes a regular column to The Times, the subjects of which range from personal life to politics. Under the pseudonym Professor Gideon Garter he wrote The Intellectual's Guide to Fashion for The Sunday Times.
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