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
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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
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Travel tips
Food, history and a rich culture of local and global wine keep this destination at the top of the list...
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Where to eat in and around Bordeaux.
The temperature gauge on our friend Tim Johnston’s car registered 35 °C as...
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A conversation with the Gramercy Tavern's veg-minded chef.
I, like many, many others, have long enjoyed Gramercy Tavern restaurant on...
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Walking the streets of Burgundy's most famous tourist destination recently, everything looked as though the world was completely back to...
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Le Colombier – a long-standing London treasure of particular interest to French-wine-loving bargain-hunters.
Reservations in restaurants depend on a number...
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Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Nick has fun. Above, the interior of Lodi, where, as with so many New York restaurants...
Tasting articles
The Noble Rot team are going retail, wholesale, and managing other restaurants' wine lists too.
It’s quite rare on the...
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A grower's recommendations … (for the UK). Nick took the picture above in Union Square market this week.
The text...
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What goes on behind the scenes before you pay for your meal. Your rights explained. The restaurant bill, or check...
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We enjoyed a superb Italian meal and chose from possibly London's best Italian wine list.
Twenty years ago, Giorgio Locatelli...
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… and a smart new chef.
Matthew Slotover, 54, and his business partner Amanda Sharpe (whose age I am too...
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A trip to Japan, China and Thailand without leaving London.
With travel to China currently impossible and likely to remain...
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Are restaurateurs as likely to smile as much as their customers? Will Beckett of the Hawksmoor Group above.
I wonder...
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Thinking of opening a restaurant? Read on. In the make-up of restaurants across the UK, Europe, the US, the Middle...
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Where does your restaurant's loaf come from? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Every time...
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What does it take to make a great chef? I was left considering the possible answers to this question after...