Grace Dent

Grace Dent is an award-winning restaurant critic, currently writing for the Guardian and starring as the co-host and judge of BBC’s MasterChef and Celebrity Masterchef. Grace's chart-topping podcast, Comfort Eating (The Guardian), has previously sat at No.1 across All Categories for multiple weeks. 

She may be intimidating to some (especially to amateur chefs) but Grace’s warm personality and wonderful sense of humour place joy and comedy at the heart of all she does.

Her best-selling memoir, Hungry (HarperCollins), tells her story of growing up in a working-class family in Currock, Carlisle to becoming one of the much-loved voices on the British food scene. It exudes nostalgia and is not just relatable and charming but also ‘tender and touching’ as Grace writes about her father’s dementia with heart-breaking honesty.

Grace most recently hosted The World’s Most Expensive Buffett (Channel 5), Best of Britain by the Sea (Channel 4) with Ainsley Harriott, The World Cook (Amazon Prime) and is a regular on BBC Radio 2 on Christmas Day & The Untold (BBC Radio 4, ARIA nominated). Grace also has two top rated shows on Netflix: Million Dollar Buffet (2022) and Greggs: What’s Really In It (2023).

Grace is Best Food Critic 2022 (Fortum and Mason’s Food and Drink awards), her memoir ‘Hungry’ has won multiple awards and her new book, Comfort Eating (2023) has received top reviews.