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Nicholas Lander

Critic · Owner / operator · Author — Restaurants as businesses. How a room is run, who runs it, what it costs to eat there, and whether the operation holds together.

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Nicholas Lander ran L'Escargot in Soho through the 1980s and was one of Britain's foremost restaurateurs before he wrote a word; restaurant correspondent of the Financial Times since 1989 under the byline "The Restaurant Insider"; author of The Art of the Restaurateur (Phaidon, 2012), an Economist book of the year; publishes a weekly restaurant column on JancisRobinson.com.

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• JancisRobinson.com, 'Sune of Hackney' ↗their review · 2025-02-09
  • SuneHackney

    “The menu is not that novel or groundbreaking but all that we ate was extremely well executed.”