The categories

Eating out

1 Best cheap eats (under £20 per head) This could be anything from a fantastic greasy spoon, to a great gastropub. If you can eat the most delicious food, for under £20 (excluding booze) then vote for it.

2 Best restaurant (£20 plus per head) Whether it's somewhere you visit every week, or a place you'd only go to on very special occasions, what we're most interested in is what you think is the best restaurant in the UK (£20 plus without wine).

3 Best Sunday lunch Whether it's a classic roast at your local pub, a fry-up, or a Michelin-starred restaurant, we want to know your favourite place to eat lunch on a Sunday.

4 Best place to drink It could be a pub, a hotel bar or a club - tell us your favourite watering hole.

Shopping

5 Best food market It could be a weekly or daily market or a specialist farmers' market.

6 Best independent food retailer From specialist cheese shops to butchers, bakers, and fishmongers - we want to know about the smaller food retailers that provide the best produce. This could even be a stand at a farmers' market, or your local deli.

7 Best organic product What's the one organic food or drink brand you rate above all others?

Other foodie interests

8 Best food and/or drink book From recipe books and exposés of the food industry, to chefs' memoirs and fiction with a foodie theme, name your favourite food/drink book in the last year.

9 Best food and/or drink programme It could be a documentary, a cookery show or any TV or radio programme related to food or drink, over the last 12 months. Name your favourite.

Please complete and return to the following address by 1 December 2003:
The Observer Food Monthly Awards,
CMR Group.Com Ltd,
FREEPOST NAT 7467,
TEDDINGTON TW11 8BR

Readers can also vote online at www.observer.co.uk/foodawards