Giles Robin Patrick Coren[1] (born 29 July 1969) is a British columnist, food writer, and television and radio presenter.

He has been a restaurant critic for The Times newspaper since 2002, and was named Food and Drink Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2005.

[11][12] As well as his restaurant work, he also contributes a regular column to The Times, the subjects of which range from personal life to politics.

[13] According to a paper published in Journalism Practice by Dr. Peter English and Dr. David Fleischman, Coren is "a sharp, witty columnist who can write with tongue in cheek".

[30] Coren followed that up with Million Dollar Critic for BBC America, which premiered on 22 January 2015 directly after Gordon Ramsay's New Kitchen Nightmares.

Coren's internal Times email used profanity, the use of which he defends,[41] to take issue with a colleague's removal of an indefinite article (an "a") from his piece, which he believed ruined a joke in his last line.

He stated that Poles used to burn Jews in synagogues for entertainment at Easter; and that Poland is in denial about its role in the Holocaust.

He referred to immigrant Poles as "Polacks", arguing that "if England is not the land of milk and honey it appeared to them three or four years ago, then, frankly, they can clear off out of it".

[51] Professor Gábor Halmai of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency said "I completely share the criticisms" of the piece made by The Economist.

He said that amid an internal debate about an FRA response, a colleague had said "it is not even certain that what Coren stated with regard to his past had taken place at all".

Halmai responded that while the generalisation used by Coren was unacceptable, it was protected under freedom of expression, conceding the existence of the Jedwabne, Krakow and Kielce pogroms.

[52] On 14 January 2010, Coren attracted criticism after he posted on his Twitter feed: "Next door have bought their 12-year-old son a drum kit.

fucking shit midfielder... he's yet another very ugly married man who's been carrying on with a gold-digging flopsie he should have seen coming a MILE away".

[59][60] In an interview with The Sunday Times on 29 May 2011, Hemming stated that he considered naming both footballers in the Coren controversy, before the Speaker stopped him.

"[61] According to The Daily Telegraph, the Premier League footballer identified by Coren in the tweets was not Ryan Giggs, and was known in the privacy injunction by the pseudonym TSE.

[63] The injunction was granted on 13 May 2011 by Mr. Justice Tugendhat, who accepted claims from the footballer that publication of the details of the relationship "would provoke the cruel chants of supporters."

[67][68][69] In December 2018, it was discovered that Giles Coren had an alternative Twitter account that "he once used to suggest people critical of him were motivated by antisemitism".

[70] The account stated to be of a Polish plumber with a bio composed in broken English and Coren's book cover as avatar.

[77] The press regulator IPSO received several complaints but took no action[78] and Coren's home in North London was daubed in graffiti paying tribute to Foster.

In January 2022, The Times magazine published Coren's review of a new Popeyes branch in Stratford, East London.

Coren wrote that "exploiters" of fried chicken recipes in chain restaurants had brought "obesity, sloth, waste, [and] high street degradation" to white communities.

The thrusting young economies of West Africa now must surely look at a KFC bargain bucket and high-five themselves that their ancestors had the forethought, all those years ago, to provide the means by which white culture would one day poison itself to death.

[81]The Independent's Race Correspondent, Nadine White, tweeted: "A review of the new London Popeyes restaurant in The Times.

A journalist, author and food blogger,[85] she is the elder daughter of Angus Walker, Chairman of Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust.