Nick on restaurants
Nick Lander – aka Mr Jancis Robinson – was the Financial Times restaurant critic from 1989 to 2022. Now, every Sunday, he writes about restaurants exclusively for us. To stay abreast of his reviews – which are free for everyone to read – sign up for our weekly newsletter.
Latest Nick on restaurants
Nick on restaurants
The rise of wine dinners
How restaurateurs and wine people work together over a meal. The phrase ‘wine dinner’ must strike anyone reading a wine website as rather strange. After all, I hear you say...
Nick Lander
Sunday 22 February 2026
• 1 min read
Nick on restaurants
Eating local in Barcelona
Two great restaurants selected by our Spanish specialist Ferran Centelles for Jancis and Nick during Barcelona’s wine trade fair. There is really one word that accurately describes the three-day Barcelona...
Nick Lander
Sunday 15 February 2026
• 1 min read
More Nick on restaurants
Nick on restaurants
A great place to eat, right on Loch Fyne in western Scotland. A version of this article is published by...
Nick on restaurants
Details of a new day-long course in London designed for those tempted by the restaurant business. I had just been...
Nick on restaurants
Nick goes behind the scenes and explains the logistics and less glamorous aspects of running a restaurant. I was just...
Nick on restaurants
Nick approves of the latest installation of a team from the Hand and Flowers in a central London location. As...
Nick on restaurants
I have visited Modena in Emilia-Romagna in Italy once but regrettably that was before Massimo Bottura established his world-famous restaurant...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. London shares with perhaps only Amsterdam a distinctive historical...
Nick on restaurants
The £95 (£85 for FT subscribers) that readers were asked to pay for the third FT Weekend Festival held at...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. We had just arrived in Peralada, in the far...
Nick on restaurants
The late Sir Fredy Fisher, the editor of the FT from 1973 to 1980, would, I believe, have been spinning...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Guy Savoy, the renowned French chef, is old fashioned...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published in the Financial Times. Since 1975, 23 Conduit Street, an apparently unlikely address...
Nick on restaurants
Joël Robuchon, who has sadly passed away aged 73 in Geneva, Switzerland, from the same terrible disease of pancreatic cancer...
Nick on restaurants
In my first book The Art of The Restaurateur (Phaidon, 2012), I profiled 20 top restaurateurs from around the world...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The city of Galway on the west coast of...
Nick on restaurants
I met Jonathan Gold, the restaurant reviewer of the LA Times who has sadly passed away at the all-too-young age...
Nick on restaurants
The beginning, how you are welcomed into any restaurant, and the ending, how you are treated as you pay your...
Choose your plan
Member
$135
/year
Ideal for wine enthusiasts
- Access 289,808 wine reviews & 15,922 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
Inner Circle
$249
/year
Ideal for collectors
- Access 289,808 wine reviews & 15,922 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
Professional
$299
/year
For individual wine professionals
- Access 289,808 wine reviews & 15,922 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
- Commercial use of up to 25 wine reviews & scores for marketing
Business
$399
/year
For companies in the wine trade
- Access 289,808 wine reviews & 15,922 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
- Commercial use of up to 250 wine reviews & scores for marketing