London restaurant journalist, wine critic and copywriter

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I am a London restaurant journalist and editor with over 20 years’ experience of writing and copywriting. I love eating out and I am lucky enough to have turned my passion into a successful career reporting on the most exciting two decades of change in the UK's food and drink scene. I have excellent relationships with the country’s top chefs, restaurant PRs, food journalists and influencers. 

I edited SquareMeal, London’s market-leading restaurant guide, for 13 years and I have been the restaurant expert for Telegraph Luxury since 2013. 

Whether contributing to trade titles such as The Caterer and Imbibe or lifestyle glossies including Marie Claire and Men’s Health, I have a proven track record of adapting my writing style and producing engaging content for different readerships. 

I am happy to undertake public speaking and I am a recognised opinion leader in my field. I have been quoted extensively as an expert commentator in The New York Times, the Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard - to say nothing of being dubbed a 'sainted epicurean' by The Times.   

I am as comfortable working within the long-lead deadlines imposed by print journalism as the minute-by-minute demands of online writing.

As a feature writer, I have contributed to publications including Cooking Light, Elle Decoration, Food and Travel, The Observer and Racing Post. 

I have excellent editing and proofreading skills. I am as comfortable condensing a restaurant review into snappy bullet points as I am researching and writing a 2,000-word chef interview.

I am skilled at maintaining commercial relationships with advertisers and experienced at writing advertorials to fit whatever brief the client requires. 

At SquareMeal, I was responsible for all aspects of the editorial and production process on SquareMeal’s restaurant and bar guide, its quarterly magazine SquareMeal Lifestyle and the website SquareMeal.co.uk. 

I generated new ideas to refresh tired editorial strands, commissioned writers, photographers, stylists and subeditors to work on features ranging from food and drink to travel, fashion, sport and motoring, edited other journalists’ copy and proofread designed copy. 

I have a proven ability to work effectively with marketing, commercial, editorial, design and technical teams.

• Shortlisted in the Restaurant Writer category at the 2020 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards

• Studying for the WSET Level 3  Award in Wines