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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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Nick's most memorable restaurants of 2025
An annual round-up of gastronomic pleasure. Above, the German island of Sylt which provided Nick with an excess of it in July 2025. At this time of year I like...
Nick Lander
Sunday 14 December 2025
• 6 min read
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This article was also published in the Financial Times.
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. An on-going email exchange with a reader in Menlo Park, California...
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This article was originally published in Business Life . Crabshakk, which opened six months ago, five minutes from Glasgow city...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. At 1.15 pm in the middle of a busy Sunday lunch...
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