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, with occasional contributions from other food-obsessed members of the JancisRobinson.com team.
Restaurant reviews
Nick on restaurants
Alta, an oasis of calm – for now
A new restaurant in one of central London’s busiest fast-food nuclei is strongly Spanish-influenced. Brave the crowds on Regent Street and Carnaby Street in London’s West End; ignore the charms...
Nick Lander
Sunday 30 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Farewell Rachel Cooke and Skye Gyngell
Nick Lander
Saturday 29 November 2025
• 1 min read
More restaurant reviews
Nick on restaurants
A new, Michelin two-star restaurant and, across the square in Sonoma, a much more relaxed establishment. Nick loved both.
Enclos...
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Jancis grapples with a five-kilo wine list and tours the cellars that supply it. See also The renovated Tour d’Argent...
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Nick moves north from LA, on a full stomach. Above, service at Aubergine in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey.
The BA flight which...
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A Paris classic, worth it for the views alone, revisited.
Why do we go to restaurants?
The main reason has...
Nick on restaurants
Nick manages to get a table at The French House, with one of its past casualties.
As noon approached, the...
Nick on restaurants
Restaurant recommendations in Florence and the Chianti Classico hills. Above, the friendly wine bar In Vino Veritas.
Three nights in...
Nick on restaurants
Special Greek seafood cooking from the Opso team in Marylebone.
On every occasion I return to London from a holiday...
Nick on restaurants
Restaurant sales, and therefore wine list awards, are becoming increasingly important to the world’s wine trade.
Neil Beckett is editor...
Nick on restaurants
Why has a successful two-star London restaurant closed? What does it take to get three stars? And where can Claude...
Nick on restaurants
The team behind London’s Trivet restaurant has been invited to open a second establishment, in a Mayfair hotel. Above, left...
Nick on restaurants
Another pair of restaurants on Sylt reviewed. Above, the stunning location of the Söl'ring Hof. See also Sylt – wine...
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The final resto on Ben’s whistle-stop tour leads him to England’s south coast and Hove’s thriving food scene. If you...
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Having navigated his way to England’s south-west, this week finds Ben parked up at one of Bruton’s finest. It was...
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Ben heads to Islington for a taste of retro-modernism. In the music world, the term ‘ residency’ conjures up images...
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With Nick on his hols for a few weeks, Ben takes up the restaurant-reviewing mantle. First stop Wales, for extraordinary...
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Recently, Jancis was asked by the Financial Times to list some of the most common misperceptions about wine. While we...