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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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Lebanon in London
On the food, wine and wine writing of Lebanon available to us in London. The news that there is currently extensive fighting in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley has effectively doubled the...
Nick Lander
Sunday 15 March 2026
• 1 min read
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