Nicholas Laurence Lander is a British consultant to and writer on the restaurant industry.
Lander studied at Manchester Grammar School, Jesus College, Cambridge, and Manchester Business School. [1]
Lander established himself as one of Britain's foremost restaurateurs in the 1980s with L'Escargot restaurant in Soho, London. [2]
Since 1989 he has been the restaurant correspondent for the Financial Times , where his weekly columns, under the byline of 'The Restaurant Insider', have tried to look at themes and trends in the restaurant industry. [3]
Lander has written a small number of books, including The Art of the Restaurateur ( ISBN 978-0-7148-6469-3, 2012), an Economist Book of the Year, and Dinner for a Fiver ( ISBN 0091783097, 1994).
He is also a food service consultant to a selection of British arts organisations and companies.
He is a fanatical supporter of Manchester United and lists it under the 'clubs' section of his entry in Who's Who . He is married to the wine critic and expert Jancis Robinson. [1]
He has been a food critic on BBC's MasterChef . [4]