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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 Writing this column invariably follows a well-tried formula. I return from the restaurant and put everything important just to the...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. As I was just about to leave Noa...
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Nick on restaurants At 1 pm last Sunday, 9 October, when most of his fellow countrymen were getting ready to sit down to...
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Nick on restaurants These amateur photos tell several different stories. The first, and probably the most obvious, is that they are all of...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. The fine line that separates the notion of...
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Nick on restaurants Forty eight hours in Tallinn, Estonia, to speak at Sauce gastronomic conference made me think of my Russian Jewish grandfather...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. Many chefs and restaurateurs in Italy operate with...
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Nick on restaurants The menu below actually reveals nothing about why this lunch was so special. A clue appears in the three words...
plated food at Ox and Finch Glasgow
Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by The Financial Times. Our visits to Glasgow always put my sister on...
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Nick on restaurants 20 August 2018 Nick and I have already enjoyed a couple of meals at the original Bourdasso this summer. The...
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Nick on restaurants Had the signposts been any more specific, we might have missed what is possibly the best gelateria in Italy. Well...
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Nick on restaurants The young English boy playing in the sea off the beach at Villasimius on the south-eastern tip of Sardinia could...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times . It was the presentation as much as...
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Nick on restaurants The menu, as illustrated, was classically simple. Imam bayildi (literally 'the imam fainted' although there are various explanations given as...
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Nick on restaurants A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. There was a crowd waiting at the bar...
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Nick on restaurants Our lunch location was chosen out of sympathy for those who suffered so terribly in Turkey recently. It was to...
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