At the end of March we explained in Situation
(temporarily) vacant: restaurant critic how Nick would be busy recuperating
over the next few weeks. We are therefore inviting you to submit restaurant
reviews or articles about eating out for
us to publish in his absence. I will send
a bottle of Ch Mouton-Rothschild 1996 to the author of the article I think best
of all those we publish. (This is the vintage adorned with the work of Chinese artist Gu Gan, as right.)
I should point out that this scheme concerns this website only. The Financial
Times is making its own plans for fielding substitutes for our favourite
restaurant correspondent.
He is doing well after his three-plus weeks in hospital after a scheduled operation
on his gut in mid March. This morning he even felt strong enough to tackle the small
pile of official correspondence that had accumulated on his desk. But he is yet
to go for a walk and has to rest every afternoon, so it will be a while before
he is back to full restaurant reviewing mode.
I apologise that I can’t say exactly for how long we will be seeking
alternative restaurant reviewers but we are very grateful for all submissions
received so far. There has been a (very) small flood of them just after the
Easter weekend and we even have our first duplicates: two reviews of one small
Canadian restaurant and two articles that mention another in the hills of the
Corbières.
Articles can be about establishments anywhere in the world, of any style or
pretension provided they serve food. We’d
just like them to be a good and ideally useful read. Please note that we seek
original material that has not been published elsewhere and would be very grateful
for at least one accompanying image we can reproduce as a 200 pixel square.
Submissions should be sent to editorial@jancisrobinson.com.
We will publish all our favourites and will announce the winner of the Mouton ’96
to celebrate Nick’s return to the gastronomic saddle.
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