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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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Restaurant reviewers, quite understandably, do not receive any sympathy for their lifestyle, however altruistic I may argue is my wining...
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This newish sister restaurant to The Square, Chez Bruce and La Trompette around London has a particularly good selection of...
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The world, well at least its food and wine lovers, owe Carlo Petrini and his colleagues who founded Slow Food...
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A significant change on British menus over the past decade has been the closer, more conspicuous, collaboration between chefs, restaurateurs...
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Food should be fun, but you would hardly know it from this year's crop of British restaurant guides. They undoubtedly...
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When Michael Belben and chef David Eyre opened The Eagle on Farringdon Road, London EC1, in 1991 they unwittingly established...
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The past few months have brought a remarkable amount of good news for cheese lovers on both sides of the...
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Edinburgh may have Valvona & Crolla (19 Elm Row for a great deli, Italian wine store and daytime superior café...
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I have over the past 11 years of writing for the Financial Times received more than my fair share of...
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In a recent 'Letter from America' on BBC radio the veteran broadcaster Alastair Cooke used the phrase 'chefs follow money'...
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Over a bottle of Catalan Vichy water in the early evening sunshine Josep Maria Boix revealed the obvious, but to...