Writing
In the 1980s. Lewis-Smith started writing weekly columns in Time Out magazine where he took over from Julie Burchill, the short-lived Sunday Correspondent, and The Mail on Sunday (where he often substituted for Burchill) as well as Esquire magazine. He has also written for The Independent, and was Restaurant Critic for Harpers & Queen magazine from 1995 to 1998. He was also Restaurant Critic for The Guardian between 2004 and 2005.
In 1992 he began a long association with the Evening Standard, contributing daily television reviews along with other writers, as well as occasional restaurant reviews and travel articles. It was announced in June 2007 that Lewis-Smith would be retiring from his daily television column.
Since 1993, he has edited the "Funny Old World" column of bizarre news stories in Private Eye, and he wrote a weekly page for the Daily Mirror for some years until 2003. From autumn 2004 to April 2005 he was the resident restaurant critic of The Guardian's Saturday magazine supplement.
His books include Buy-Gones and Inside the Magic Rectangle, a collection of his early Evening Standard TV reviews. In November 2008, in recognition of his contribution to journalism, radio, and television, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster.
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