Giles Coren

Critic and Columnist at The Times

Host and Podcaster at Giles Coren has no idea Podcast

Presenter at Times Radio

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Articles

You get what you pay less for at chains: a bitter taste

4 days ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren

As restaurant prices continue to spiral due to increased rents, food inflation, wage rises and government tax grabs, you would expect all the nice little independent places that really care about quality produce and old-fashioned hospitality to die, while the chains that can profit by gradually making everything a little bit worse across the board without anyone really noticing thrive at their expense. And that is exactly what is happening.
'I'll go every day, if that's OK with them'

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren
Sigh... I could make a killing as a lawyer

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren
Sigh... I could make a killing as a lawyer

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren
'To my relief, I enjoyed this hugely'

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren
Don't panic! This fearsome military column is in your corner

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren
Am I too late to join the Ozempic crowd?

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren
Jos├ęphine Bistro review: 'Very Parisian

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren

If you are of a certain age - and this is a newspaper, so you are - then you may well remember the Dôme café bar in Hampstead. Or perhaps the one on the Kings Road in Chelsea. Those were the first two and they remained the flagships. But there was Chiswick and Islington and Oxford and Cambridge, and I think one on St Christopher's Place in the West End, and a fair few more dotted around the country. Dozens, probably.
glad I helped run you off our roads

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren

In February, I wrote about councillors in the Labour-run London borough of Lambeth being offered a day off, fully paid, "to recover from the inherent trauma of being weepy, dim-witted, car-hating, leftard wusspots", after locals objected quite vociferously to the council's fascistic imposition of one of these "Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" that are being rolled out across the country in an ideologically motivated pogrom of the middle classes under the cover of bogus ecology.
I'm with Michelle Obama, an empty nest could break me

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Giles Coren