William Sitwell is one of Britain’s leading food writers. He is a restaurant critic for The Telegraph as well as a commentator and travel writer for that newspaper. He was formerly the multi-award-winning editor of acclaimed magazine Waitrose Food for 16 years.
William has authored four internationally successful books: A History of Food in 100 Recipes (translated into nine languages), Eggs or Anarchy; The Remarkable Story of the Man Tasked with the Impossible: to Feed a Nation at War and The Really Quite Good British Cookbook.
His latest book The Restaurant; A History of Eating Out, was published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and US (by Diversion) in 2020 and was described by Bloomberg’s Richard Vines as ‘more entertaining than many a restaurant meal’. A frequent presenter and guest on TV and radio and a popular speaker at events, he is one of the long-standing critics on the hit BBC show MasterChef and the host of Biting Talk, Britain’s liveliest food and drink podcast.
He also entertains diners with William Sitwell’s Supper Club, providing exceptional food in extraordinary locations across the UK and is the founder of the world smallest wine store William’s House Wines (williamsitwell.com). He lives in Somerset with his wife Emily and he has four children.
