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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. 

Restaurant reviews

Ferran Adria and JR at al kostat
Don't quote me 詹西斯的日记 – 2026年2月

在伦敦度过的短暂一个月,只有一次外出,去巴塞罗那48小时。尼克 (Nick) 拍摄了这张詹西斯和埃尔布利餐厅 (El Bulli) 的费兰·阿德里亚 (Ferran Adrià) 的照片。 月初我们在颇受欢迎的...

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Nick on restaurants Nick goes behind the scenes and explains the logistics and less glamorous aspects of running a restaurant. I was just...
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Nick on restaurants Nick approves of the latest installation of a team from the Hand and Flowers in a central London location. As...
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Nick on restaurants I have visited Modena in Emilia-Romagna in Italy once but regrettably that was before Massimo Bottura established his world-famous restaurant...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. London shares with perhaps only Amsterdam a distinctive historical...
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Nick on restaurants The £95 (£85 for FT subscribers) that readers were asked to pay for the third FT Weekend Festival held at...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. We had just arrived in Peralada, in the far...
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Nick on restaurants The late Sir Fredy Fisher, the editor of the FT from 1973 to 1980, would, I believe, have been spinning...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Guy Savoy, the renowned French chef, is old fashioned...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published in the Financial Times. Since 1975, 23 Conduit Street, an apparently unlikely address...
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Nick on restaurants Joël Robuchon, who has sadly passed away aged 73 in Geneva, Switzerland, from the same terrible disease of pancreatic cancer...
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Nick on restaurants In my first book The Art of The Restaurateur (Phaidon, 2012), I profiled 20 top restaurateurs from around the world...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The city of Galway on the west coast of...
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Nick on restaurants I met Jonathan Gold, the restaurant reviewer of the LA Times who has sadly passed away at the all-too-young age...
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Nick on restaurants The beginning, how you are welcomed into any restaurant, and the ending, how you are treated as you pay your...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Many, if not most, of the provincial towns and...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Lee Coad had just finished taking the payment from...
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