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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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Three more reasons to head to this charming city in southern Spain. As we left Confitería La Campana, which first opened its doors in Seville in 1885, JR said something...
Nick Lander
Sunday 11 January 2026
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After our order in a leading London restaurant had been taken by a Latvian manageress and served by a Polish...
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Sir Peter Michael was one of the first to challenge one of the few maxims common to both the wine...
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Several London restaurateurs have asked me over the past couple of months, with admirable enthusiasm, whether there have been any...
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The British ‘season’ that recently began at Glyndebourne, East Sussex and goes on to include the Chelsea Flower Show, Ascot...
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Last week Alain Senderens, the cerebral, wine loving chef/proprietor of the art nouveau Lucas Carton restaurant in Paris announced that...
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A romantic walk through the nearby Place Vendôme under a starlit sky during spring time in Paris was the ideal...
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New York’s foremost restaurateurs are responding to the almost frenetic demand for reservations in their current establishments by expanding in...
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Within seconds of being handed the menu at The Ledbury in Notting Hill Gate, which Nigel Platts-Martin and Philip Howard...
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Politics encroached upon the British restaurant industry briefly in 1994 when Tony Blair famously met Gordon Brown over dinner at...
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The only consolation for standing in the slow-moving queue towards Immigration at New York’s JFK airport recently was watching other...
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As soon as I handed in my coat to the receptionist at Thomas Keller's overrated and extremely expensive Per Se...
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The restaurant market in Moscow is phenomenal. Any keen restaurant-goer who has visited the rapidly-developing Russian capital recently will undoubtedly...
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I walked through the covered area of Kirkgate market in the centre of Leeds where fish stalls display razor clams...
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I had witnessed Juan Mari Arzak, Spain’s most respected chef, from a distance twice before I had the pleasure of...
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As soon as the smoked tuna consommé was poured from a glass phial on to a bowl of diced sea...
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When I called David Collins’ office to propose an interview with London’s most successful restaurant designer I was pretty confident...
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