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Nick Lander (my saintly husband) writes regularly about food and restaurants for the Financial Times, where he is known as the restaurant insider because he is one of the few restaurant critics who have actually owned and run a successful one: L'Escargot in its glory days in the 1980s. Find out more at www.nicklander.com.

Madrid looks east

6 Feb 2010 by Nick Lander/FT

On the night before I was to make my first appearance on the stage of Madrid Fusion, the annual gathering in late January at which top chefs from around the world demonstrate their prowess in the Spanish capital, I walked into the bar of the Hotel Ritz to find Ferran Adriá of El Bulli sitting on. More...

My Thai

30 Jan 2010 by Nick Lander/FT

Two stalls by the estuary in the fishing village just to the north of Cha-Am in Thailand would delight any chef or lover of seafood. Behind the first sat a woman swinging her axe at a mound of oysters. Once the shells had been prised apart, she used a small knife to remove the meat that. More...

A tale of two restaurants

23 Jan 2010 by Nick Lander/FT

Our bridge game began with two complaints even before we had looked at the cards. And, as they were about restaurants, they were naturally addressed to me. One was about the disappointing food at Il Baretto, an upmarket Italian wine bar in Marylebone, while the other was over the £260 bill. More...

Take a friend for £5

16 Jan 2010 by Nicholas Lander/FT

Welcome back to Take a Friend for a Fiver, the obviously irresistible restaurant promotion which we initiated last year as a twist on the UK's original restaurant promotion, Lunch for a Fiver, which the Financial Times first launched in 1993. I use the phrase 'obviously irresistible'. More...

From the other side of the order pad

9 Jan 2010 by Nick Lander/FT

Ed Burgess, 18, having worked as a waiter for the past nine months, has just flown off to spend six months travelling around South America before university. This trip has been funded by the £3,500 he has earned, a combination of the £6 an hour wages he received working as a waiter during this. More...

Bangkok - first find your restaurant

4 Jan 2010 by Nick Lander

I am sure that there are readers of this website, and my column in the Financial Times , who believe that I flit from one table to another without the slightest problem about reservations. That tables just magically appear as and when I want them at the right time and for precisely the right. More...

Grand designers

2 Jan 2010 by Nick Lander/FT

Kristina O’Neal and Adam Farmerie are exceptional in the restaurant world in that they are restaurant designers turned restaurateurs. Their New York-based architectural and design firm AvroKO has been so innovative that they have seen their designs appear in Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore and. More...

Somewhere for a long weekend

28 Dec 2009 by Nick Lander/BA Business Life

New Year's Eve is an unusual celebration. Restaurateurs, hoteliers and chefs spend months planning special menus for the night, while we spend almost as long planning where to celebrate the event. Then it is all over in a second. Moreover, with today's instant communication, there are best. More...

Best welcomes of 2009

24 Dec 2009 by Nick Lander/FT

It has been a turbulent year for most restaurateurs and chefs, although in the end they have been far busier than they had feared may have been the case a year ago. It has also been an exceptional year for me personally because the single question I have been asked most frequently over the. More...

A phoenix in W8

19 Dec 2009 by Nick Lander/FT

The attention and good will of many of London’s leading restaurateurs are currently focused on Kitchen W8, which has just opened off Kensington High Street, west London, and Rebecca Mascarenhas who initially opened this site in spring 2006. Yet despite Mascarenhas’s charm, professionalism. More...

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