Ed Charles

Ed Charles is a food and drink and business journalist. What he is not, is a foodie. In fact, he has instructed his wife to slap him if he shows any signs of foodie-ism. This includes waxing lyrical about the new season’s peaches, slurping his wine to aerate his palate and mentioning Heston Blumenthal more than five times a day.

Ed began his food career as finance journalist being wined and dined in London and Europe’s best restaurants by some of the City’s biggest swinging dicks. His career highlights as a finance journalist include being banned from Warburg’s merchant bank and upsetting the UK’s largest arms dealer, basically all the wrong people.
And this is probably why a career writing about food beckoned.

In 2005 he established the cheeky Melbourne-based food blog Tomato where he has started to annoy the right people.
Subsequently he’s written about food and restaurants for titles including SBS Food, the Herald Sun, The Australian, and GQ and reviewed restaurants for The Age’s Good Food Guide and the Gourmet Traveler Restaurant Guide.

His pastimes – apart from food, drink and photographing food in restaurants – include digging up his front garden to create a vegetable patch and walking his dogs along St Kilda beach to avoid kite surfing.