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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.

Corrigan arrives in Mayfair
18 Nov 2008 by Nick Lander
Richard Corrigan (seen here in his younger days at The Lindsay House, Soho) has just opened Corrigan’s Mayfair and, fortunately, the food is a lot less confusing than the location. For those with a long memory, the restaurant is in the site formerly occupied by Chez Nico, of Nico Ladenis. More...
Elettaria - New York Indian
15 Nov 2008 by Nick Lander/FT
Although the contents of the menu at Elettaria, the Indian-influenced restaurant opened by chef Akhtar Nawab and two partners earlier this year in New York’s West Village, are highly impressive, the menu itself could not be less convenient for restaurant reviewers. It is nothing less. More...
Giaconda Dining Room update
10 Nov 2008 by Nick Lander
My fully justified, highly enthusiastic review of The Giaconda Dining Room just off Tottenham Court Road, where Australian Paul Merrony, pictured here, is the only chef in a one-person kitchen, did end by saying that the viability of the business rested solely on his broad shoulders.. More...
Dining in private
8 Nov 2008 by Nick Lander/FT
Private dining rooms within restaurants have always been popular even if something of a contradiction in that restaurants are ostensibly public, egalitarian places which people visit to see and to be seen. But no restaurateur would open today without delineating a specific area as one or. More...
Promising London newcomers
5 Nov 2008 by Nick Lander/BA Business Life
Restaurateurs are not smiling quite as broadly as they were a year ago as corporate and household budgets have been tightened. Lunchtime trade in restaurants located in the financial districts has been affected, as have dinner reservations in the suburbs. So too has been the hugely important. More...
Mrs Tee's magic mushrooms
1 Nov 2008 by Nick Lander/FT
This year’s Restaurant Show at Earl’s Court in London contained one unexpected gem. Past the stands displaying the latest in vast washing up machines, gleaming ovens and software packages to improve reservations systems was a small coterie of producers and growers, the most colourful of which. More...
Corking cuisine
25 Oct 2008 by Nick Lander/FT
The pleasure of being back in Ballymaloe House, 30 miles south-east of Cork in southern Ireland, after 27 years was accentuated when Darina Allen pointed to my place at the dinner table and said, “You’re here, Nick, between myself and Myrtle.” I was in exalted company. It was Myrtle. More...
Tapas go mainstream
23 Oct 2008 by Nick Lander/BA Business Life
I can still remember where, when and why I walked into my first tapas bar. It was one early Sunday evening in the spring of 1978 in the old town of Bilbao in northern Spain to which I had been sent by the directors of the company I then walked for to try and sort out an under-performing. More...
Bringing Mexico to Notting Hill
18 Oct 2008 by Nick Lander/FT
Dodie Miller has been the attractive and passionate conduit for distributing the most authentic Mexican ingredients to both professional and amateur chefs across the UK for the past 15 years. The happy confluence of a new-born son and her introduction to a copy of American chef Mark. More...
Tom's Kitchen - supplier fallout
15 Oct 2008 by Nick Lander
The consensus that this current economic downturn will be very different from those of even the recent past was sadly reinforced with an example from the restaurant industry this week now that it has been revealed that Tom’s Kitchen has gone into receivership - although it continues to trade.. More...
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