12-year-old's scathing restaurant review

The youngster dished up a damning account of her experience in a restaurant. Photo / Getty

Children often take after their parents - and that's certainly the case for one budding food critic, who is following in her father's culinary footsteps.

Top chef Gill Meller shared a hilariously scathing restaurant review written by his 12-year-old daughter Coco while on holiday in Spain.

Scribbling her thoughts on the back of a napkin, the youngster slammed the restaurant as being 'hell in a shell' - while describing the food as tasting like "camp shop s***".

Even the water wasn't up to standards for Coco, who said it "is warm and makes me chunder".

The review penned on a napkin was shared to Instagram. Photo / Instagram

Sharing a snap of the review on Instagram, Gill - who is head chef for British celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage group - wrote: "Even first hand restaurant recommendations can be way off the mark, unfortunately.

"Here with my youngest daughters review (left on a napkin) of tonight's somewhat alarming supper. #foodcritic #spain".

In the review, Coco wrote: "I feel as if your calamari should be more crispy and your Garlic Mayo is discusting (sic)."

She continued: "You need to provide butter with your bread and clean the table when people are finished.

"AKA your restaurant is hell in a shell".

Other Instagram users were quick to react to the hilarious review, with many suggesting that the youngster was taking after her father.

One commented: "Haha, what would you expect, with you as father, the standards are high."

Another added "So so brutal", while one simply wrote "Oh my god! She's brilliant".