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Camilla Long

Critic · Journalist — London restaurants, with a columnist's eye for the room, the crowd and the social register of a place as much as the plate.

restaurant critic of The Sunday Times, appointed February 2026, moving across from her long-running post as one of the paper's senior columnists. The Sunday Times critic's chair is a peer of the Times (Coren), Guardian (Dent) and FT (Rayner) posts already in this registry. Her first review, per the paper's custom of sending a new critic to London's oldest restaurant, was Rules (published in the week to 8 Feb 2026).

Their own reviews and picks.

Their own judgment, in their own words, by the piece it appeared in.

• The Sunday Times, quoted in Harden's Review of the Reviews 384 ↗their review · 2026-02-09
  • RulesCovent Garden

    “so rare in restaurants as to be almost erotic”