TS: Giles Coren vs AA Gill

I do like how the Times employs, as its third restaurant critic after these two, Michael fucking Winner.

Restaurant critics definitely the most disgusting savages in the world.

Have always quite enjoyed watching Coren try to eat himself to death in the company of that lesbian.

Kinda repping for Winner just coz I like some of his films.

should've been a fatal threeway with jay rayner

I'm not too familiar with these guys but maybe Coren loves himself more? That would make me prefer him in any case as he seems more insulated from the glib cynicism and pithy self-loathing that characterises these sorts of lost Britannic folk. I can't think about Michael Winner, but he is a different animal.

coren is definitely worse.

Coren
I drive a Ford Fiesta. I am not ashamed of it in the least. I’ll have you know it is a Zetec, which means it is the same as a Ford Fiesta except with a cool, z-based word embossed on the back of the hatch in top-quality metal-coloured plastic. The last person to admire it (the funky z-based word, rather than the car) was a friend of mine in whose private jet I had just flown to Venice and back for lunch, and whose Ferrari was warming up next to it on the frosty gravel forecourt of his country estate, prior to a trip to buy the papers to see how much of the world he controlled on that particular morning.

Gill
Economists know nothing; politicians only know what economists tell them; bankers think economists are fantasists and politicians are idiots; bankers know less than nothing. If you want to really and truly understand what’s happening around you, what’s making the weather, look at the culture.

Coren by the country mile that is his fucking drive.

well, gill's bit there isn't super writing, but it's not a million miles from the truth... except the last bit, but he's paraphrasing shelley innit. coren's paragraph is repulsive, taki-esque bullshit.

Coren has a heavy awkward lit graduate fangirl base, right? I remember an ex-girlfriend casually mentioning once that she wanted to lick garlic mayonnaise off of him, although knowing my ex-girlfriends the thought of high calorie content gloop was more arousing to her than the thought of naked midget journos.

i dunno, but i hear girls like rich, successful, handsome guys in general so it's a fair bet.

i dunno, but i hear girls like rich, successful, handsome guys in general so it's a fair bet.

― special guest stars mark bronson, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:38 (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

So how come you're oh wait

Coren was fantastic as the time travelling gourmand on 'The Supersizers Go...' series, couldn't imagine Gill being anywhere as funny or enthusiastic if he was roped in to do that job.

beat giles coren in a pub quiz once, he was pretty ungracious about it. emily maitlis had to tell him to shut up.

what

remember when you wrote this? pretty weird right Giles? pic.twitter.com/rD3ZqShKcM

— James (@glassbreaking_) December 31, 2019

i know, what kind of monster gives coke to a three-year-old

Giles Coren made a fake Polish Twitter account to send antisemitic message to critics https://t.co/f4pdynGDoE

— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) December 31, 2019

AA Gill wins by several parsecs.

Think I have said this on here before, but I spoke to aa gill when I was working in a call centre and he was very polite and respectful, also got the same impression when he died, that his awfulness was mostly a thing he did for money (which still makes him bad of course) - coren, otoh, seems like he would be awful to deal with in person, he always seems to be following one personal vendetta after another.

I see Ruby Tandoh has shared the thread

once more for the cheap, cowardly, uk food media personalities at the back 👏🏼 https://t.co/CXTPse1xkX

— Ruby Tandoh (@rubytandoh) December 31, 2019

Repulsive man.

There’s 0 repercussions to being racist in this country especially if you stick a few long words in.
Giles Coren is on TV all the time and can write this rubbish without any consequences. https://t.co/Q8g7d35QmS

— أنثيا (@__Anthea) January 16, 2022

He's such a piece of shit.

The tone of this ("The thrusting young economies of West Africa...") reminds me of the sort of condescending patrician shit Boris Johnson was peddling in his columns 20 yrs ago.

Repulsive man.

― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 15:39 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Me OTM.

Not the toughest call you've made tbf

destroying Giles Coren's Jaguar, in Duke Nukem 3D pic.twitter.com/IUcaOvPSeT

— Dan Douglas (@dandouglas) January 18, 2022

Nothing new here I guess but good from Mic Wright: https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/clarkson-and-coren-in-the-iron-bank

Thanks, that was v good

Roti Stop has a positive review from this cunt framed, it mentions the restaurant being out of the way, something along the lines of "just get quickly stabbed on the overground to get here" (review's from the 00's, so I guess pre-gentrification of this area). Makes me sad that even in a positive review of the place they have to deal with racist shit like this.

I've met Giles Coren a couple of times (acquaintance of a relative) and can confirm he's exactly the kind of condescending, self-regarding dick you'd imagine him to be from his journalism.

Just think, the son he fat shamed and daughter he gave a sexualised account of a holiday with will one day have their own newspaper columns.

A unbroken line of smugness stretching out endlessly into the future.

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2012/01/03/09/09b_19_coren_415x275_1.jpg