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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

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Nick on restaurants Taking over a hallowed space

The Australian chef who used to be in charge of Gordon Ramsay’s flagship restaurant in London now has one of his own. The biggest challenge facing restaurateurs today was brought...

Jasper Morris MW at The Stokehouse
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...

al Kostat interior in Barcelona
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...

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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Restaurateur Stephen Starr, who made his name initially in...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. The bitter-sweet process of recalling the best meals...
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Nick on restaurants 1 December Our Throwback Thursday features a double helping today, one article about Nick's new book below and another about...
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Nick on restaurants At Koffmann’s restaurant in the Berkeley Hotel in London I was shown to what many people would describe as ‘the...
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Nick on restaurants During the course of the first evening of a recent week-long stay in New York, I was asked the following...
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Nick on restaurants Every visit to New York begins in the same rather precise fashion but seems to end, a bit like the...
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Nick on restaurants My Barcelonista friend was quite adamant. If I wanted to eat at Disfrutar on a Saturday night and without a...
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Nick on restaurants Since today is publication day, we're substituting this account of Nick's new book for this week's Throwback Thursday. Here he...
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Nick on restaurants Burgundy lovers are everywhere – except perhaps at US Immigration at Denver airport. That is the conclusion I arrived at...
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Nick on restaurants Writing this column invariably follows a well-tried formula. I return from the restaurant and put everything important just to the...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. As I was just about to leave Noa...
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Nick on restaurants At 1 pm last Sunday, 9 October, when most of his fellow countrymen were getting ready to sit down to...
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Nick on restaurants These amateur photos tell several different stories. The first, and probably the most obvious, is that they are all of...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. The fine line that separates the notion of...
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Nick on restaurants Forty eight hours in Tallinn, Estonia, to speak at Sauce gastronomic conference made me think of my Russian Jewish grandfather...
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