Restaurants
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
Nick on restaurants
Poon's – now of Somerset House
A daughter revives memories of her parents’ much-loved Chinese restaurants. The surname Poon has long associations with the world of hospitality and Chinese cooking. From a restaurant in Macau where...
Nick Lander
Sunday 7 December 2025
• 5 min read
More restaurant reviews
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. An evening in a restaurant can last longer than a night...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. My one and only trip to the southern states of America...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. 'My first wife was second cook in a third-rate restaurant on...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Writing this column has often involved a certain element of risk...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Michel Roux Jr, long the chef/proprietor of Mayfair's renowned Le Gavroche...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. A recent lunch and then dinner at Bibendum restaurant in London's...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. The clock on the back bar of Cafe Murano, which chef...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. It was while researching this article that I finally realised why...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. With its serried ranks of tables, heavy wooden chairs and a...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Dinner on the Friday night we arrived in Paris and lunch...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times.At the end of a radio discussion that focused on what 2014...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. The message from my friend, a proud Florentine, was as unusual...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Few women will admit that after years in the public gaze...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. I asked a doctor friend what I thought was a fairly...
Nick on restaurants
4 Dec – We are republishing this article written by Nick for the Financial Times in July 2008 as a...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times.
Gerald Diffey, the dapper Englishman behind Brooks, the highly successful restaurant...