Restaurant reviewer Giles Coren abuses colleagues in leaked email

One of Britain’s leading restaurant critics has been left red faced after an obscene 1,000-word email rant he sent to his editors emerged on the internet.

Their crime? Changing a single word in one of his reviews.

Giles Coren, son of the humourist Alan Coren, was angry that his phrase “where to go for a nosh” had been replaced with “where to go for nosh”, with the penultimate word removed.



The change was made to the last line of his review of Cafe Boheme in Soho, published in The Times magazine in April this year.

“There is no length issue. This is someone thinking: ‘I'll just remove this indefinite article because Coren is an illiterate c*** and I know best’,” he wrote in an email to four of his sub-editors. “Well, you f****** don't.”

Coren has laughed off the email, describing it as “a corker”, but admitted he fears that the four sub-editors to whom it was addressed must now hate him.

You can read the full email here. Contains very NSFW language.