Critic Name Generator
Bylines and personas for fictional critics
Generate names for fictional critics and review personas: fastidious bylines like Auberon Thackeray and Honoria Pell, anonymous columns like The Hungry Stranger and Table for One, feared nicknames like Two-Star Tess, and titled comic critics like Madame Fourchette.
About critic names
A fictional critic needs a name that sounds like it has opinions. The classic choice is the fastidious byline, a full name with a little starch in it: Auberon Thackeray, Honoria Pell, Lucien Marchetti-Vane, Desmond Quill. Initials do the same work with less ink, which is why A. J. Whitlock or C. V. Thistlewood reads like someone who has been filing notices for thirty years.
Restaurant critics are the largest group here, because fiction loves them most. Reviewers who want to eat like any other customer often book under another name, so the list has plenty of column personas and masked diners: The Hungry Stranger, Table for One, The Corner Booth, The Masked Gourmand. Beside them sit film reviewers (The Back Row, The Aisle Seat), theater and opera critics, music writers, book and art critics, and game reviewers such as Save Point Sam.
The rest is comedy. Feared critics earn nicknames from the people they review (Two-Star Tess, The Guillotine of Garrick Street), titled gourmands arrive with a dish attached (Sir Reginald Butterworth, Madame Fourchette), and gentle puns like Basil Thyme and Olive Pitts suit a sitcom, a cozy mystery or a tabletop game. These are invented names for fictional critics, and none is meant to point at a real reviewer or publication.
How to choose critic names
- Match the name to the beat and the tone. A feared restaurant critic in a drama suits a starched byline such as Cordelia Fennimore or Ambrose Larkspur, while a comedy can carry Lukewarm Lionel or The Pastry Prosecutor.
- Give an anonymous critic two names: the persona readers see (The Unannounced Guest, The Quiet Table) and the plain byline behind it. The gap between the two is a ready-made plot.
- Let other characters do the nicknaming. Chefs, actors and bands come up with names like The Velvet Hatchet or The Terror of Table Six, and the critic would never sign with one.
- Say the byline after a headline. "Reviewed by H. R. Vandersloot" should sound like a verdict before the first sentence.
- If the critic will appear in something you publish, search the name first to make sure it does not belong to a working reviewer.
Frequently asked questions
What are good names for a food critic character?
For a serious restaurant critic, try a formal byline such as Philippa Ravenscroft, Thaddeus Pomfret or Delphine Okonkwo. For an anonymous column, The Hungry Stranger, The Clean Plate and Knife and Verdict work well. For comedy there are Basil Thyme, Count Calorie and Dame Agatha Trifle.
Does the list cover critics other than food critics?
Yes. Restaurant critics are the largest block, and the rest covers film reviewers, theater and opera critics, music writers, book and art critics and game reviewers. Examples include The Popcorn Verdict, The Interval Verdict, The Liner Notes, The Marginal Note and Final Boss Fiona.
Are these real critics?
No. The names are written for fictional characters, personas and games, and none is meant to use a real newspaper, guide or review site. A list this long can still match a real person or column by coincidence, so search a name before you publish with it.
How do I name an anonymous or masked critic?
Name the disguise, not the person. Personas such as The Masked Gourmand, Anonymous at Table Four, No Byline Given and The Stranger with a Notebook describe how the critic arrives or where they sit, which keeps the mystery intact. You can pair the persona with a plain full name from the list for the reveal.
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All 1,000 critic names
A: 51 names
- A Cough in the Second Act
- A Diner of No Importance
- A Friend of the Fryer
- A Reader Who Eats
- A Seat by the Kitchen
- A Table Near the Door
- A. A. Thistlethwaite
- A. J. Whitlock
- A. Nonymous Diner
- A. St. John Pettigrew
- Abena Owusu-Ansah
- Acid-Ink Agatha
- Adelaide Courtenay
- Admiral Horatio Kipper
- After the Credits Roll
- Agent Appetite
- Agnes Colophon
- Aiko Hasegawa
- Al Dente
- Alban Kovacs
- Aldous Penhaligon
- Alfie "Chip Shop" Barraclough
- Algernon Footlight
- Ama "Just a Taste" Mensah
- Amabel Okri-Stone
A, continued
- Amara Chukwuemeka
- Ambrose Larkspur
- Ambrose Tetley
- Amos "Second Opinion" Quillfeather
- An Enemy of Aioli
- An Observer of Some Experience
- Anastasia Volkonskaya
- Anna Petizer
- Anonymous at Table Four
- Anouk "Brown Butter" Vermeer
- Anton Fairfax
- Appetite at Large
- Arabella Stonecipher
- Araminta Kingsolver
- Archdeacon Ambrose Teacake
- Archie "Corner Table" Pendergast
- Aretha Lindqvist
- Arjun Venkatesan
- As Told by V. I. Pemberton
- Astrid Thorvaldsen
- Auberon Thackeray
- August Projector
- Auguste Verdigris
- Augustin "The Spoon" Moreau
- Aurelia Coloratura
- Aurelio Hathersage
B: 35 names
- B. A. Carruthers
- B. Leopold Kovalenko
- Baptiste Rochefoucauld
- Barb E. Cue
- Barbed-Wire Beatrice
- Barnaby Deckle
- Barney "Third Helping" Olufemi
- Baron Von Brunch
- Barry Tone
- Bartlett Pear
- Bartley Okpara
- Basil Thyme
- Baxter Longtake
- Bea Stroganoff
- Beatrice "Needs Acid" Lowell
- Beatrix Morandi
- Beatrix N. Sandoval
- Belle Canto
- Beta Tester Bex
- Bianca Thibodeaux
- Bill O'Fare
- Billie Halvorsen
- Bitter Bartholomew
- Blistering Bea
- Booth Nine
- Boss Rush Bruno
- Box Five Correspondent
- Brandy Snifter
- Brigadier Fitzroy Chutney
- Bronte Okafor
- Bruno "The Wooden Spoon" Castagna
- Buffy Table
- Button Masher Bea
- By A. Q. Sternwood
- By the Late R. P. Mallory
C: 57 names
- C. Rosalind Drury
- C. V. Thistlewood
- Calliope Underhill
- Calypso Reyes
- Camilla Bhattacharya
- Camille Rousselot
- Candid Carmichael
- Caoimhe Gallagher-Byrne
- Captain Erasmus Anchovy
- Carmen Ostinato
- Caspian Trevelyan
- Cassius Lenz
- Catalina Echeverría
- Cecil "The Cheese Course" Whitlow
- Cédric Vaillancourt
- Celeste "Crisp Skin" Baptiste
- Chapter and Verdict
- Chapter Wynn
- Checkpoint Charlie Voss
- Chet Fairlane
- Chiara Montanari
- Citizen Fork
- Clara Nett
- Clem Entine
- Clementine Ashby
- Clementine M. Vasquez
- Cliff Hanger
- Clive "The Carving Board" Ashcombe
C, continued
- Colby Jackson-Monterey
- Cold-Soup Constance
- Cole Slawson
- Colonel Barnaby Mustard-Hogg
- Combo Breaker Kofi
- Coming Attractions
- Comte Armand de Camembert
- Conrad Vernissage
- Constance Belvedere
- Controller Drift Dan
- Cora Leibowitz
- Cora Sline
- Coralie Benitez
- Cordelia Fennimore
- Corkage and Candor
- Cornelia B. Marsh-Adeleke
- Cosima Fresco
- Cosimo Featherby
- Count Calorie
- Countess Ottavia di Parmigiano
- Cressida Zielinski
- Crispin Aldergate
- Critical Hit Cleo
- Crumbs on the Notebook
- Curt Custard
- Curtain Up, Pen Down
- Cuthbert Lanyon
- Cutscene Carla
- Cyril Osei-Bonsu
D: 38 names
- D. Augustin Leclerc
- Dagger-Quill Dorian
- Dame Agatha Trifle
- Dame Edith Eccles-Cake
- Dame Hortensia Blancmange
- Dame Millicent Mince-Pie
- Dame Winifred Shortcrust
- Daphne Curtainraiser
- Dashiell Okoro
- Dashwood Pym
- Deadpan Delia
- Dee Glaze
- Dee Rivative
- Delia Kinoshita
- Delphine Okonkwo
- Dermot Fairbairn
- Desh Ramanathan
- Desmond Cinder
- Desmond Quill
- Dev "The Garnish" Kapoor
- Dexter "Medium Rare" Poole
- Dexter Holloway-Park
- Dimitra Papadopoulou
- Dina Wright
- Dinner with a Notebook
- Django Whitaker
- Doctor Cornelius Consommé
- Doctor Leopold Ganache
- Dolly Zoom
- Dolores "No Dessert" Quintero
- Dolores Iturralde
- Dorian Hale-Okafor
- Dorothea Finch-Hatton
- Duke Ellerby
- Duke of Earl Grey
- Dulcie Encore
- Dunstan Oyelowo-Price
- Dunya Rahimi
E: 28 names
- E. L. Marchmont
- E. Montrose Tully
- Earnest Appraisal
- Earplugs In
- Easter Egg Emeka
- Ebele Nwachukwu
- Ed Itorial
- Edith "The Aperitif" Sinclair-Moss
- Edwina Marginalia
- Ella Carte
- Ellery Montefiore
- Elliot "Soggy Bottom" Marsh
- Eloise Marchetti-Ng
- Elroy Fontaine
- Emeka "Hold the Foam" Adeyemi
- Emeric Vasquez-Lee
- Emile Nakashima
- Emory Castellan
- Erasmus Vellum
- Étienne Beaumarchais
- Eton Messina
- Etta Laughlin
- Eun-ji Seo
- Evangeline C. Dupree
- Evelyn Garrick-Moss
- Ever Hungry, Never Fooled
- Everett Pinkerton-Rao
- Exit, Pursued by a Deadline
F: 17 names
- F. X. Delahunt
- Farid Daneshvar
- Fatima Benjelloun
- Faye Vorable
- Fed and Unimpressed
- Felicity Hawksworth
- Felix Matinee
- Fenella Arbuthnot
- Fergus Applewhite
- Final Boss Fiona
- Flint-Eyed Flora
- Flo "Overcooked" Fitzpatrick
- Florian Babatunde
- Frame Rate Frankie
- Francesca "Al Punto" Gallo
- Frank Assessment
- From the Desk of E. B. Whitcombe
G: 16 names
- G. Fitzroy Amadi
- Game Over Greta
- Garnish and Grumble
- Garrett Nwosu
- Georgette A. Mbatha
- Gideon Featherstonehaugh
- Ginger Snapp
- Giselle Marchand
- Giulietta Ferraresi
- Glitch Hunter Gwen
- Graham Crackerjack
- Graziella Lombardi
- Greta "The Rolling Pin" Lindholm
- Greta Ashworth-Li
- Greta Montage
- Gus "Early Bird Special" Tolliver
H: 25 names
- H. R. Vandersloot
- Hal Apeno
- Half-Star Harriet
- Hamilton Plinth
- Hank "Extra Napkins" Dufrene
- Hard Mode Hamza
- Hard-to-Please Hollis
- Harmony Blackwood-Diaz
- Hazel Nutley
- Henrietta Summerscale
- Herb Garnish
- Hester Blackwell-Oduya
- High Score Hiro
- Hitbox Hattie
- Hoang Minh Chau
- Holly Wood-Byrne
- Honoria "The Palate" Vance
- Honoria Pell
- Horatio Wexford
- Hortense Delacour
- House Lights Up
- Hugh Mility
- Hugo Pemberton-Sato
- Humphrey Beauclerk
- Hyacinth Morrow
I: 13 names
- Ianthe Castellani
- Ignacio "The Reduction" Salazar
- Ignatius Bellweather
- Ignatius K. Solberg
- Ilse Vandenberghe
- Incognito Ingrid
- Inés Larrañaga
- Iris Murgatroyd
- Iron-Tongue Imogen
- Isadora Fontenot
- Isamu Kurosaki
- Isolde "The Coupe" Wagner-Blythe
- Ivy "Sauce on the Side" Calder
J: 13 names
- J. B. Fenwick-Sloane
- J. Winthrop Sedley
- Jacinta Blackwood
- Jasper Coldstream
- Jasper Impasto
- Jean-Baptiste Lemaire
- Jett Corrigan
- Jocasta Wyndham
- Joni Staccato
- Josephine R. Calder, Critic at Large
- Jude Icious
- Juno Blackthorne
- Justin Different
K: 7 names
- Kalinda "Low and Slow" Jarrah
- Kamala Prescott
- Kazimir Nowak
- Kerry Curry
- Knife and Verdict
- Known Only to the Editor
- Kwabena "Good Stew" Asante
L: 47 names
- L. Marguerite Stowe
- L. P. Montcrieff
- Lady Arabella Aspic
- Lady Clarissa Cucumber-Sandwich
- Lady Georgiana Gooseberry-Fool
- Lady Henrietta Hollandaise
- Lady Lavinia Crumpington
- Lady Marmalade-Toast
- Lady Philippa Petit-Four
- Lady Wilhelmina Soufflé
- Lag Spike Lena
- Lars "The Pickle Jar" Nyberg
- Lavender Proscenium
- Lavinia Truscott
- Léa Desrochers
- Lee K. Soup
- Legs and Tannins
- Leilani Kahananui
- Leland F. Ashworth Jr.
- Lennox Vale
- Leona "The Gravy Boat" Sims
- Leontyne Briggs
- Leopold Brisbane-Hale
L, continued
- Leopold Finchley
- Les Miserable-Pryce
- Les Stars
- Lettice Abara
- Lights Down, Notes Out
- Lilith Coppersmith
- Linus Galbraith
- Lionel Gilding
- Lola Reverb
- Lord Fauntleroy Flapjack
- Lord Hash of Brown
- Lord Percival Crumpet
- Lord Tarquin Toastrack
- Lorenzo Cadenza
- Lowell Cutler
- Lucien Marchetti-Vane
- Lucius Folio
- Ludovic Ainsworth
- Ludovica Bianchi
- Luke Warm
- Lukewarm Lionel
- Lux Ferrante
- Lyle Okonjo
- Lysander Achebe
M: 57 names
- M. F. Okonedo
- M. Lucille Farraday
- Mabel "Butter First" Thorne
- Mac N. Cheswick
- Madame Aurore Amuse-Bouche
- Madame Bernadette Brioche
- Madame Clothilde Clafoutis
- Madame Colette Cassoulet
- Madame Fourchette
- Madame Odette Quenelle
- Madame Solange Tartiflette
- Madame X of the Mezzanine
- Maestro Benedetto Fiorelli
- Maestro Ettore Risotto
- Maeve Drummond
- Magnus Olivier-Reyes
- Malcolm Trevino
- Marcel "Send It Back" Dubois
- Marcella Dunwoody
- Marcia Gouache
- Margaux Villeneuve
- Marge Oram
- Margot "The Mise" Laurent
- Marguerite D. Stanhope
- Marguerite Solano
- Marian Flyleaf
- Marigold Devereux
- Marina Rasauce
M, continued
- Marit Solheim
- Mark Itdown
- Marlena Riff
- Marquis Lucien de Roquefort
- Mathilde Easterbrook
- Max Runtime
- Maximilian Dufresne
- Mei-Ling Tsai
- Mel O'Drama
- Mel Ted Butter
- Merciless Maud
- Mercy Atwater
- Midnight at the Counter
- Miles Deckard
- Miles Toolong
- Millicent Carraway
- Minnie "Split the Check" Hartwell
- Mirabel Santangelo
- Mireille Sandoval-Kerr
- Mister Nobody, Dining Alone
- Mister Y of the Balcony
- Mo Zarella
- Monica Splicer
- Monsieur Aristide Croûton
- Monsieur Fabrice Fricassée
- Monsieur Gaston Beurre-Blanc
- Monsieur Hercule Bouillon
- Montgomery Faircloth
- Monty "The Port Glass" Fotheringay
N: 20 names
- N. C. Wetherby
- Nadège Tremblay
- Nadia "Sharp Knife" Haddad
- Nadine Carstairs
- Nan Bread-Finch
- Natsuki Oda
- Ned "Dry Toast" Pickering
- Nell Halliday
- Nerissa Holloway-Chen
- Never-Pleased Nell
- New Game Plus Nora
- Ngozi Eberechukwu
- Nico Tremolo
- Nkechi Onyeama
- No Byline Given
- No-Mercy Mercer
- Nobody You Would Recognize
- Noel Spoilers
- Not the Critic You Expected
- Notes from the Gods
O: 23 names
- O. P. Ashenden
- Octavia Demarest
- Octavian Rosenblatt
- Odessa Marlowe
- Odetta Marsh
- Odette Rasmussen
- Odile "Ice Bucket" Fournier
- Odile Sfumato
- Oil on Deadline
- Olive Pitts
- Olive R. Twistbread
- One Bite at a Time
- One-Star Winston
- Opening Night Nerves
- Ophelia Wingate
- Oriane Delacroix-Mbaye
- Orson Mwangi
- Otis "Burnt Ends" Tillman
- Otis Lowdown
- Ottilie Brandauer
- Ottoline Hargreaves
- Our Correspondent, Name Withheld
- Our Diner in Disguise
P: 34 names
- Page Proofwell
- Paige Turner
- Paloma Sprocket
- Pan Itall
- Pandora Lightfoot
- Patti Overdrive
- Patty Melton
- Pepper Mills
- Percival Lockhart-Dunne
- Peregrine Stagg
- Pernilla Strand
- Perry Winkle-Pie
- Persephone Gill-Baptiste
- Peter Bread
- Petronella Ogunbanjo
- Phil A. Minyon
- Phil Marathon
- Philippa J. Wren
- Philippa Ravenscroft
- Philo Dough
- Phineas "The Finger Bowl" Crane
- Pilar Santamaría
- Pita Pan
- Pixel Prudence
- Plate by Plate
- Player Two Priya
- Poison Pen Penelope
- Polly Phonic
- Portia Huang-Whitby
- Priya "One More Bite" Venkataraman
- Professor Thaddeus Umami
- Prosper Proscenium
- Prudence Okafor
- Ptolemy Grace
Q: 2 names
- Q. R. Penhallow
- Quick Save Quinn
R: 31 names
- R. T. Abiola
- Rafael Estabrook
- Rafael Etxeberria
- Rafferty Lindqvist
- Rage Quit Rita
- Ramona Closeup
- Raoul Chandelier
- Rave Reviewson
- Ravi Sundaram
- Ray "Diner Coffee" Malone
- Razor Rosalie
- Reed Booker
- Renata Voss
- Respawn Reggie
- Reuben Rye
- Reverend Septimus Seedcake
- Rex Calloway
- Rhiannon Solberg
- Rocco "The Breadstick" Bellini
- Rodrigo Bustamante
- Roguelike Rosie
- Rosa "Slow Simmer" Delgado
- Rosalba Giordano
- Rosalind E. Fairbanks
- Rosamund Eccleston
- Roscoe Vidal
- Rosemary Baker
- Row F, Seat Nine
- Rowena Lascelles
- Rupert "The Decanter" Hale
- Russ Tique
S: 61 names
- S. Cordelia Vane
- Sade Olawale
- Sage Butterfield
- Salt and Opinion
- Sam Mosa
- Sanjay Whitford
- Saskia van Houten
- Savage Sal Moretti
- Save Point Sam
- Scathing Sidney
- Scorched-Earth Edith
- Seasoned Opinions
- Seat J-14
- Second Album Syndrome
- Seraphina Goodfellow
- Seraphine Dlamini
- Sharp Elbows Ellison
- Sharp-Tongue Shapiro
- Shelf Life
- Sheridan Trapdoor
- Sherry Trifle
- Sid Quill
- Side Quest Sully
- Side Two, Track Four
- Signed, A Regular
- Simone Achterberg-Lowe
- Sinclair Agarwal
- Sir Algernon Port-Decanter
- Sir Cedric Stilton
- Sir Digby Digestif
S, continued
- Sir Gawain Gruyère
- Sir Lancelot Gravlax
- Sir Loin of Beefington
- Sir Montague Marmalade
- Sir Peregrine Truffle-Hound
- Sir Reginald Butterworth
- Sir Tristram Treacle-Tart
- Sir Wilfred Welsh-Rarebit
- Solange Abiodun
- Somebody's Plus-One
- Someone at the Bar
- Soo-ah Lim
- Sorcha Devlin
- Soren Hedlund
- Sour-Note Sorensen
- Speedrun Soren
- Split-Screen Selma
- Spoon and Sentence
- Stan Dingroom-Only
- Standing Too Close
- Static on the Dial
- Stellan Brightwater
- Stevie Okeke
- Still Thinking About That Soup
- Stone-Faced Stella
- Sue Flay
- Sully "Short Order" Brannigan
- Sunniva "Cold Plate" Bergstrom
- Supper and Suspicion
- Sybil Throckmorton
- Sylvie Chapterhouse
T: 393 names
- T. E. Blanchflower
- T. Ignatius Bellamy
- Table for One
- Takeshi Yamanouchi
- Tallulah Brennigan
- Tamsin Holbrooke
- Tara Misu
- Tariq Al-Mansouri
- Tatiana Vasilenko
- Tenor Tim Bright
- Tess "Underseasoned" Halloran
- Tess Timonial
- Thaddeus Pomfret
- Thandiwe "Fresh Herbs" Nkosi
- The Aisle Seat
- The Aria Appraiser
- The Assassin of Act Two
- The B-Side
- The Back Booth Diarist
- The Back Row
- The Backlog Baron
- The Bake Sale Tribunal
- The Bakery Window Watcher
- The Balcony Seat
- The Bane of Bistros
- The Barbecue Bailiff
- The Baron of Bad Notices
- The Bassline Believer
- The Bean Counter of Brew Street
- The Bedside Stack
- The Biennial Bystander
- The Binge Watch Bailiff
- The Biscuit Adjudicator
- The Black Cloud of Broadway East
- The Blank Byline
- The Blurb Doubter
- The Board Game Barrister
- The Borrowed Copy
- The Borrowed Name
T, continued
- The Borrowed Raincoat
- The Bravo Rationer
- The Bread Basket Report
- The Bridge Is the Best Part
- The Brisket Inquisitor
- The Brunch Auditor
- The Brushstroke Counter
- The Buffet Line Bard
- The Bulldozer of Bookshops
- The Burger Magistrate
- The Butcher of Brasserie Row
- The Butcher's Confidant
- The Butter Knife
- The Canteen Confessor
- The Catalogue Essayist
- The Cautious Gourmand
- The Cellar Door
- The Check, Please
- The Cheese Board Chairman
- The Chef's Nightmare
- The Chili Cook-Off Chancellor
- The Chowder Chronicler
- The Clean Plate
- The Cleaver of Canal Street
- The Closer of Kitchens
- The Cold Open Connoisseur
- The Comic Shop Counsel
- The Completionist's Complaint
- The Corner Booth
- The Couch Co-Op Critic
- The County Fair Pie Judge
- The Crafting Menu Curmudgeon
- The Crema Inspector
- The Critic Behind the Fern
- The Critic Formerly Known
- The Critic in the Gray Coat
- The Critic Who Was Never There
- The Curry Correspondent
- The Curtain Killer
T, continued
- The Custard Commissioner
- The Cutting Room Correspondent
- The Cyclone of Critics' Row
- The Daily Bread
- The Day-One Skeptic
- The Decanting Deacon
- The Decoy Date
- The Deep Cut
- The Demo Tape Devotee
- The Dessert Trolley
- The Diner Detective
- The Director's Regret
- The Dog Show Doubter
- The Dog-Eared Page
- The Doggy Bag Dispatch
- The Double Feature Diarist
- The Doubtful Palate
- The Dragon of the Dress Circle
- The Dread of Every Debut
- The Dress Circle Diarist
- The Drive-Thru Diarist
- The Duchess of Demi-Glace
- The Duchess of Disdain
- The Dumpling Diplomat
- The Earl of Eggs Benedict
- The Early Access Cynic
- The Eight O'Clock Sitting
- The Empress of the Empty House
- The Empty Chair
- The Encore Auditor
- The Encore Is a Formality
- The End Credits
- The Epigraph Inspector
- The Espresso Examiner
- The Executioner in the Aisle Seat
- The Facade Fancier
- The Face Nobody Remembers
- The Fake Birthday Booking
- The False Mustache
T, continued
- The Famished Flaneur
- The Farmers Market Moralist
- The Fast Travel Refuser
- The Feedback Loop
- The Fetch Quest Foe
- The Fifth Wall
- The Final Bow Bulletin
- The Final Cut Column
- The Fine Print Reader
- The Fishmonger's Friend
- The Flat White Witness
- The Food Truck Follower
- The Footnote Fancier
- The Four-Track Mind
- The Fringe Pilgrim
- The Front Row Fidget
- The Front Row Squint
- The Front-of-House Ear
- The Frost of the Front Row
- The Fussy Eater
- The Gadget Unboxer General
- The Gallery Bench
- The Galley Ghost
- The Gatefold Sleeve
- The Ghost Diner
- The Greasy Spoon Laureate
- The Greedy Pilgrim
- The Green Room Gossip
- The Grocer's Gossip
- The Grudging Gastronome
- The Guest Who Took Notes
- The Guillotine of Garrick Street
- The Half-Hour Call
- The Hanging Judge of Hollandaise
- The Happy Hour Heretic
- The Hardback Hermit
- The Hemline Historian
- The Hi-Hat Heckler
- The Hidden Track
- The Honest Appetite
T, continued
- The Honorable Bertram Pudding
- The Hot Sauce Historian
- The Hotel Pillow Inspector
- The House Red Reporter
- The Hundred-Hour Reviewer
- The Hungry Stranger
- The Indie Shelf Insider
- The Inkwell Incognito
- The Intermission Report
- The Interval Verdict
- The Inventory Auditor
- The Invisible Regular
- The Jump Cut Journal
- The Karaoke Night Notary
- The Key Change Cynic
- The Lady Vanishes After Dessert
- The Larder Letters
- The Last Chapter First
- The Last Chord
- The Last Course
- The Last Train After the Finale
- The Last Word on Larch Street
- The Late Seating
- The Late Showing
- The Laugh Track Listener
- The Leftover Column
- The Lemonade Stand Laureate
- The Libretto Lawyer
- The Line Cook's Lament
- The Liner Notes
- The Listening Room
- The Loading Screen Lawyer
- The Long Lunch
- The Lunch Counter Correspondent
- The Maître d's Shadow
- The Marchioness of Marzipan
- The Marginal Note
- The Masked Gourmand
- The Matinee Skeptic
T, continued
- The Mattress Tester
- The Menace at the Matinee
- The Menu Reader
- The Merch Table Moralist
- The Microtransaction Mourner
- The Midnight Screening
- The Midnight Snacker
- The Midweek Diner
- The Minibar Moralist
- The Minimap Minimalist
- The Mixtape Magistrate
- The Monologue Monitor
- The Mosh Pit Monk
- The Museum Gift Shop Sage
- The Nameless Palate
- The Napkin Notes
- The Night Kitchen Notes
- The Noodle Detective
- The Open Mic Oracle
- The Open World Wanderer
- The Opening Act
- The Opening Weekend
- The Opera Glasses
- The Overture Skipper
- The Oyster Ombudsman
- The Panel Gutter Guru
- The Pantry Raider
- The Paperback Prosecutor
- The Parade Float Pundit
- The Pass
- The Pastry Prosecutor
- The Patch Notes Prophet
- The Pause Menu Philosopher
- The Paying Customer
- The Peckish Professor
- The Pen Without a Face
- The Perfume Counter Poet
- The Phantom of the Prix Fixe
- The Pho Philosopher
T, continued
- The Pilot Episode Pessimist
- The Pirouette Pedant
- The Pizza Arbiter
- The Plain Brown Envelope
- The Plot Hole Patrol
- The Plot Thickener
- The Pointe Taken
- The Polite Complaint
- The Popcorn Verdict
- The Post-Game Pundit
- The Potluck Prosecutor
- The Preview Week Prowler
- The Private View
- The Prix Fixe Pessimist
- The Program Collector
- The Projection Booth
- The Prologue Skipper
- The Prompt Corner
- The Pub Quiz Arbiter
- The Punchline Auditor
- The Quiet One with the Pen
- The Quiet Table
- The Ramen Referee
- The Ravenous Reader
- The Reading Lamp
- The Reaper of Restaurant Week
- The Record Bin Diver
- The Reissue Rummager
- The Remainder Bin
- The Remake Resister
- The Remote Control
- The Rerun Romantic
- The Restless Epicure
- The Restricted View
- The Revival Resenter
- The Right Honorable Lord Ladle
- The Roaming Appetite
- The Ruin of Many a Risotto
- The Rulebook Reader
- The Runway Realist
T, continued
- The Sandcastle Assessor
- The Sandwich Scholar
- The Save File Scholar
- The Scalpel of Sloane Square
- The School Play Sage
- The Scourge of Soft Openings
- The Sealed Envelope
- The Seam Ripper
- The Season Finale Fretter
- The Second Bottle
- The Second Glass
- The Second Helping
- The Second Night Reviewer
- The Second Playthrough
- The Second Reel
- The Sequel Skeptic
- The Setlist Skeptic
- The Shadow in the Stalls
- The Shark of Supper Clubs
- The Silencer of Sequels
- The Silent Partner
- The Skeptical Sommelier
- The Sketchbook Skeptic
- The Skill Tree Surgeon
- The Skyline Scold
- The Sledgehammer of Sixth Avenue
- The Slow Fade
- The Slow Reader
- The Small Plates Skeptic
- The Sommelier's Sorrow
- The Soprano Sympathizer
- The Soundcheck
- The Sourdough Sentinel
- The Specials Board
- The Spine Breaker
- The Splash Page Scholar
- The Spoiler of Soufflés
- The Spoiler Warning
- The Squinting Connoisseur
T, continued
- The Stage Door Skeptic
- The Stalls Whisperer
- The Standing Ovation Skeptic
- The Standing Reservation
- The Sticky Floor Report
- The Storm Cloud in Row C
- The Stranger in Booth Three
- The Stranger with a Notebook
- The Street Food Sleuth
- The Subtitle Reader
- The Sunday Roast Inspector
- The Supper Club Spy
- The Taco Tribunal
- The Talent Show Tsar
- The Tasting Menu Truant
- The Terror of Table Six
- The Test Drive Diarist
- The Theme Park Line Lawyer
- The Third Act Problem
- The Third Refill
- The Thrifty Gastronome
- The Tip Jar Tribunal
- The Traveling Tastebud
- The Trench Coat Taster
- The Tutorial Skipper
- The Two-Drink Minimum
- The Unannounced Guest
- The Unbooked Diner
- The Undercover Epicure
- The Understated Regular
- The Understudy's Champion
- The Undertaker of Opening Night
- The Unfinished Novel
- The Uninvited Reviewer
- The Unmoved Mover of Row B
- The Unsigned Review
- The Upper Gallery
- The Usher's Opinion
- The Varnishing Day Visitor
T, continued
- The Veiled Verdict
- The Velvet Fork
- The Velvet Hatchet
- The Venerable Canon Custard
- The Vinegar Virtuoso
- The Vinyl Crackle
- The Voice from Row Zero
- The Waiter's Worry
- The Wall Text Reader
- The Wandering Fork
- The Watcher in the Wings
- The White Cube Wanderer
- The Widowmaker of Wharf Lane
- The Wig and Spectacles
- The Wing Seat Balletomane
- The Witness at Table Two
- The Wolf at the Wine List
- The Worn Stylus
- The Wrecking Ball of Rue Lafitte
- Thea Pentimento
- Thelma Backbeat
- Thelonius Garber
- Theodora Nakamura
- Theodore V. Okoye
- Third Room on the Left
- Thornton Quire
- Three Chords and a Grudge
- Thumbs-Down Thackeray
- Tiberius Easel
- Tilly "Extra Crispy" Winslow
- Tom Ato-Bisque
- Too Loud, Still Listening
- Tor Eklund
- Tristram Soliloquy
- Trudy Stills
- Tuned a Half Step Down
- Tut-Tut Tobias
- Two Forks, One Opinion
- Two-Star Tess
- Tyrone Ashfield
U: 2 names
- Unimpressed Ines
- Untitled, Mixed Opinions
V: 11 names
- Val U. Judgment
- Verity Chaudhry
- Verse, Chorus, Verdict
- Vinegar Vaughn
- Vintage Complaints
- Viola Chiaroscuro
- Viola Stringer
- Violetta Arietta-Jones
- Violetta Marchbanks
- Viscount Rupert Kedgeree
- Vivienne Reel
W: 12 names
- W. G. Nakagawa
- Walden Prufrock-Shah
- Walt "The Blue Plate" Sorensen
- Well Fed and Wary
- Whoever Ordered the Duck
- Wilhelm Brandt-Ito
- Wilhelmina S. Otieno
- Will Pannit
- Winthrop Q. Desrosiers
- Wolfie Brandt
- Words by O. Z. Quartermaine
- Wow and Flutter
X: 1 name
- Ximena Zubiaur
Y: 3 names
- Yevgenia Sokolova
- Your Humble Glutton
- Yours in Butter