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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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The rise of wine dinners
How restaurateurs and wine people work together over a meal. The phrase ‘wine dinner’ must strike anyone reading a wine website as rather strange. After all, I hear you say...
Nick Lander
Sunday 22 February 2026
• 1 min read
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Considerations we might not have thought of, as UK restaurants start to reopen, in a particularly limited way.
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Now Londoners can order delicious handmade pork dumplings delivered to their door.
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The piscatorial empire of Mitch Tonks, pictured above.
Fish seems to attract many of us in ways that meat does...
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When restaurants reopen, will we seek comfort or challenge? Image by Rod Long on Unsplash.
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