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
Doppo – Italian restaurant or not?
A gem for wine lovers in London’s Soho. Just part of its giant wine list (temporarily stolen) is shown above. The inherently Italian pleasures of my lunch at Doppo on...
Nick Lander
Sunday 8 March 2026
• 1 min read
More restaurant reviews
Nick on restaurants
This is a longer version of an article also published in Business Life . After 27 years in the restaurant...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. When the media picked up yet again on that old chestnut...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. As managing director of The Fat Duck in Bray, for which...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Upstairs, the simply-named, eating-in floor of the 80,000 sq ft Whole...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. During the brief interregnum between Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy in Paris...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Tête de veau, or calf’s head, is definitely one of those...
Nick on restaurants
This article was originally published in Business Life . After 27 years in the restaurant business, initially as a restaurateur...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. At 6.00pm the restaurant and the grounds of da Vittorio, the...
Nick on restaurants
This article was originally published in Business Life. Europe divides British restaurant goers almost as distinctively as it divides its...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. This week, as the main set of contractors put the finishing...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. I was really enjoying my margarita sitting at the bar of...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. It is unusual to meet a restaurateur who is successful and...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. A fortnight ago, New York restaurateur Danny Meyer was in London...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. In late 2001 Chandos Elletson, Chris Maillard and David Lancaster, the...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times . Good fortune, some very good food and a serious culinary...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. The scene outside the atmospheric Antica Bottega del Vino in Verona...