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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, with occasional contributions from other food-obsessed members of the JancisRobinson.com team.
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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
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What wine waiters think of us diners. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
We are...
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Revisiting past pleasures somewhere new. If you agree with Jancis and me that the only correct way to spend three...
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Two old favourites reviewed as we make our way back across the Channel. Above, Sachiko and Mikihiko Sawahata of Bissoh...
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Two Languedoc restaurants reviewed as we leave the region for Burgundy en route home to London. Despite their many charms...
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11 September 2021 Nick explains why we are republishing this 14-year-old article. The opening of the Sessions Arts Club in...
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An ambitious new addition in the hills of the western Languedoc. A version of this article is published by the...
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Having metaphorically toured Tokyo, Nick dreams up a perfect 24 hours in Paris.
Paris, the City of Light, poses a...
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Nick reprises a Friday tradition.
A ritual used to take place every Friday lunchtime around 2.30 pm during the 1980s...
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Continuing the optimistic theme of yesterday's republished article on wine tourism, Nick anticipates revisiting some favourite restaurants around the world...
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A version of this article, about an impressive hotel restaurant in a beautiful setting, is published by the Financial Times...
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A version of this article about a newish London restaurant is published by the Financial Times . FFC, Fenn fried...
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A leading London restaurateur paints a bleak picture.
You may think that Trevor Gulliver, one of the two founders of...
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Nick gets in the mood for tonight's quarter-final with a football metaphor. The similarities between Ryan Giggs, the magnificent player...
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Nick loses his heart to an Alphonso mango cheesecake.
This wretched pandemic has been so cruel in so many ways...
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Nick takes a quick trip to Glasgow. Every restaurant bill tells a different story. Of the place, of the occasion...
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The Kent coast, easily accessible from London, has much to offer the greedy. Deal beach, above, was pictured by Seth...