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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Nick's most memorable restaurants of 2025
An annual round-up of gastronomic pleasure. Above, the German island of Sylt which provided Nick with an excess of it in July 2025. At this time of year I like...
Nick Lander
Sunday 14 December 2025
• 6 min read
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See the introduction to this five-part series here. Villa Mas is quite a different animal. Certainly an unusual one. It...
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See yesterday's introduction and first favourite restaurant here. Celler de Can Roca is probably my overall favourite restaurant in Spain...
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This is the first of this week's five-part guide to the best restaurant wine lists in Spain by our Spanish...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. For several very different reasons I recently accepted an invitation to...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. El Bulli, just outside Roses on the Costa Brava, has been...
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At some point in the great history of the human race, somebody figured out that the ideal serving of a...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. The recently opened Venice Biennale has captured the headlines with photos...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. By the standards of the organised chaos that inevitably overwhelms every...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. I met Maguy Le Coze, la patronne for the past 25...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. At 3.15 pm an elegant, silver-haired woman was walking past the...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. The Gilbert Scott restaurant, named after the original architect of the...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times.When I met an old Catalan friend in the lobby of the...
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Our excitement at being invited by chef-patron Ferran Adrià to enjoy a final dinner at El Bulli before it closes...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times.At 11.30 pm, Mads Kleppe, the Norwegian sommelier at Noma, Copenhagen, currently...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. Now that the annual invasion of London by chefs and restaurateurs...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. My investment in Prune restaurant in downtown New York took two...