Hipsters being hipsters, coolness and inaccessibility have overtaken all other concerns. Food no longer matters. Even burgers are too foody. All a restaurant needs to be now is a place with bricks and exposed plumbing where you can take an… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection. We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I'm at home more… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you're famous, but me? Me, I'm in the Premier Inn in Gillingham. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Gentile smoked salmon is all... muscular and smells of smoke. It's not very fatty. They don't understand - smoked salmon should be almost spreadable!… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
