Gilles Pudlowski

Gilles Pudlowski (born 15 November 1950 in Metz, Moselle) is a French journalist, writer, literary and gastronomic critic. He writes the blog les Pieds dans le Plat, writes for Saveurs, Cuisine et Vins de France and Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace. He is also the author of the Pudlo guides.

Gilles Pudlowski is a writer and journalist, both a gastronomic and literary critic. He publishes the blog: les Pieds dans le Plat.

After graduating from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and a history degree, he made his debut at Le Quotidien de Paris founded by Philippe Tesson () before joining Les Nouvelles littéraires. Jean-François Kahn, who took up the latter magazine, entrusted him with responsibility for the literary pages and asked him to take charge also of the gastronomic chronicle.

Christian Millau, who spotted him in 1979, offered him to collaborate with the Gault Millau, promising him a career of rigorous criticism in these terms: "In this job, people know how to eat or write, rarely both, sometimes none of the two. If you can do both, you're sure to succeed".

He latter wrote for Paris Match, Cuisine et Vins de France, (where he created the category of "plates", awarding one to three plates to good restaurants, the pot with good quality / price ratio and the broken plate, which will make much of his reputation as "the Zorro of the critique" at the disappointing tables). He has worked with Panorama du Médecin, Parcours, Le Figaro, Cuisine TV, France Inter, Bon Voyage, Air France Madame.

His reputation is notably linked to the weekly Le Point, of which he was the official columnist from 1986 to 2014. He was a senior reporter and was responsible for the pages of tourism and gastronomy, while actively collaborating on the literary section.

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