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
Free for all
Farewell Rachel Cooke and Skye Gyngell
Nick Lander
Saturday 29 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Nick is not as thrilled by this new opening in Brooklyn as by its sister establishment. Any second restaurant opened...
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A great place to eat, right on Loch Fyne in western Scotland. A version of this article is published by...
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Details of a new day-long course in London designed for those tempted by the restaurant business. I had just been...
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Nick goes behind the scenes and explains the logistics and less glamorous aspects of running a restaurant. I was just...
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Nick approves of the latest installation of a team from the Hand and Flowers in a central London location. As...
Nick on restaurants
I have visited Modena in Emilia-Romagna in Italy once but regrettably that was before Massimo Bottura established his world-famous restaurant...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. London shares with perhaps only Amsterdam a distinctive historical...
Nick on restaurants
The £95 (£85 for FT subscribers) that readers were asked to pay for the third FT Weekend Festival held at...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. We had just arrived in Peralada, in the far...
Nick on restaurants
The late Sir Fredy Fisher, the editor of the FT from 1973 to 1980, would, I believe, have been spinning...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Guy Savoy, the renowned French chef, is old fashioned...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published in the Financial Times. Since 1975, 23 Conduit Street, an apparently unlikely address...
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Joël Robuchon, who has sadly passed away aged 73 in Geneva, Switzerland, from the same terrible disease of pancreatic cancer...
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Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The city of Galway on the west coast of...
Nick on restaurants
I met Jonathan Gold, the restaurant reviewer of the LA Times who has sadly passed away at the all-too-young age...