On the Menu: The World's Favourite Piece of Paper

Nicholas Lander views menus from a highly unusual perspective as the only restaurant critic to have owned and run one of London's most successful restaurants. He established L'Escargot in Soho in the 1980s when he was among the first British restauranteurs to write his menus in English and to change them according to the seasons. For the past twenty-seven years he has reviewed restaurants and menus from around the world in his role as restaurant critic for the Financial Times. His first book, The Art of the Restauranteur (2012), profiled twenty of the world's best restauranteurs and was named a Book of the Year by The Economist.