Simon Wright

Owner of Wrights Food Emporium & Chair of National Food Strategy

Simon Wright has been running places to eat in Wales for over 35 years. Simon is a former editor of the AA Restaurant Guide, author of a couple of books including Tough Cookies (Profile 2004) and has broadcast about food issues for BBC Wales and Channel 4.

Simon Wright has been running places to eat in Wales for over 35 years.

Simon is a former editor of the AA Restaurant Guide, author of a couple of books including Tough Cookies (Profile 2004) and has broadcast about food issues for BBC Wales and Channel 4.

He was the Restaurant Consultant on all the UK and European episodes of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares between 2004 and 2015. His most recent radio series wasn’t We Can’t Go On Eating Like This BBC Radio Wales and is available as a podcast on BBC Sounds and Iplayer. Simon was named Food Ambassador For Wales in 2010

In 2025 Simon established a new charity Cegin Y Bobl with the author and Welsh food historian Carwyn Graves and others to work in schools and the community teaching food literacy through cooking - ceginybobl.co.uk.

He was appointed to Chair the Expert Working Group for the National Food Strategy for Wales in July of this year