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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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Ballymaloe's charms
An international institution in the southern Irish countryside. In 2011 I travelled to Ballymaloe House, a 40-minute drive from Cork, Ireland, to stay the night and to interview the late...
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Which is the more authentic? Above, long, thin spicy spring rolls at David Thompson's Long Chim.
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22 December 2024 We're republishing this gem from 15 years ago, as relevant now as it was then. 12 December...
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A fond look back over the year. Above, one of Nick's favourite scenes from a year visiting restaurants around the...
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Three major improvements to the restaurant scene.
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Sherry Week began last Monday. Nick had hoped to celebrate it at the launch of a new book about this...
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A most unusual corner of literary Ireland in King's Cross. There are two ways to enjoy the cooking, hospitality and...
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A legendary beer restored and with it an exemplary pub.
This is a plea to the many people currently planning...
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Will Smith, now at Joséphine Bouchon, surely has one of the longest and most active and enthusiastic careers on the...
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Ancient and modern in the Danish capital, so famous for its restaurants and open sandwiches.
We arrived in Copenhagen hungry...
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27 March 2026 Walter has had a couple of recent meals at his old favourite L’Osteria di Monteverde and reports...
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Four restaurants of note, two on each side of the English Channel. Above, the kitchen at Passerini in Paris.
The...
Free for all
A look at an institution, through (an empty) wine glass. A version of this article is published by the Financial...