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.
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Jancis's diary – February 2026
A short month in London with just one sortie, to Barcelona for 48 hours. Nick took this picture of Jancis and Ferran Adrià of El Bulli. On the first of...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 2 March 2026
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The scene was fairly typical of that in many...
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
Jancis writes The picture here shows Nick and me, forever meddling with JancisRobinson.com, in the cloister of St Jerome in...