Celebrating the art and work of those who can stand the heat in the kitchen
There’s no doubting Nicholas Lander’s foodie credentials. A former restaurateur (he owned and ran Soho’s legendary L’Escargot in its glory days of the 1980s) this Cambridge University and Manchester Business School graduate is a global authority on the restaurant industry, contributes to Conde Nast Traveller and BA Business Life Magazine and has, since 1989, written The Financial Times hugely popular and influential weekly restaurant column. He also happens to be married to internationally renowned wine critic and author Jancis Robinson OBE who advises no less a personage than HM Queen Elizabeth on her wine cellar. So it’s fair to say he knows his stuff.
But despite — or perhaps because of — his vast knowledge and experience, Lander shares the belief of multi-Michelin starred Jean-Claude Vrinat, that the qualities demanded of a restaurateur can be distilled in a single sentence: “A love of food, a love of wine and a love of one’s fellow human beings.”
