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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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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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Nick on restaurants
Writing this column invariably follows a well-tried formula. I return from the restaurant and put everything important just to the...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. As I was just about to leave Noa...
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At 1 pm last Sunday, 9 October, when most of his fellow countrymen were getting ready to sit down to...
Nick on restaurants
These amateur photos tell several different stories. The first, and probably the most obvious, is that they are all of...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. The fine line that separates the notion of...
Nick on restaurants
Forty eight hours in Tallinn, Estonia, to speak at Sauce gastronomic conference made me think of my Russian Jewish grandfather...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. Many chefs and restaurateurs in Italy operate with...
Nick on restaurants
The menu below actually reveals nothing about why this lunch was so special. A clue appears in the three words...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by The Financial Times. Our visits to Glasgow always put my sister on...
Nick on restaurants
20 August 2018 Nick and I have already enjoyed a couple of meals at the original Bourdasso this summer. The...
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Had the signposts been any more specific, we might have missed what is possibly the best gelateria in Italy. Well...
Nick on restaurants
The young English boy playing in the sea off the beach at Villasimius on the south-eastern tip of Sardinia could...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times . It was the presentation as much as...
Nick on restaurants
The menu, as illustrated, was classically simple. Imam bayildi (literally 'the imam fainted' although there are various explanations given as...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. There was a crowd waiting at the bar...
Nick on restaurants
Our lunch location was chosen out of sympathy for those who suffered so terribly in Turkey recently. It was to...