Bar des Prés, London W1: ‘The £8 vanilla-flavoured mash reawakened my inner witch’ – restaurant review I’ve done a lot of smiling graciously, but being relentlessly supportive of restaurants couldn’t last for ever
The new food stars of TikTok The app’s snappy videos are the new gateway to food fame. Its breakout stars explain the secrets of their success
Fergus and Margot Henderson: ‘A half pig’s head – it’s romance on a plate’ For OFM’s 20th anniversary, the first couple of British food recall favourite meals and being ‘mother hens’ to a generation of cooks
My secret ingredient: colatura di alici Chef Jeremy Lee on the precious anchovy condiment that adds roundness to dishes such as braised lamb and porchetta tonnato
20 years of Observer Food Monthly: 20 key moments in food From MasterChef to Noma, and street food to the rise of female chefs
20 years of Observer Food Monthly: recipes from the stars of the future So what of the next two decades? We introduce four up-and-coming chefs and their brilliant recipes
Meet the new breed of work from home chefs Lockdown has seen an explosion in domestic food businesses, including takeaways and meal kits. Will it continue?
Chef Sat Bains: ‘I doodle dishes. I dream about dishes all the time’ The Michelin-starred chef on the art of food and the smells of home – spinach and boot polish
My weird year of eating out – and in ‘In March, when almost everything stopped, a reality set in that restaurants may never be quite the same again’
Cafe Deco, London WC1: ‘I’ve added it to my little black book of exceptional places’ – restaurant review ‘Clever, finely judged, nicely eccentric cooking with a strong undercurrent of country-house living’
A restaurateur, a radical chef and a cook-turned-campaigner: ‘What 2020 has taught us’ From Covid-19 to Black Lives Matter and the storm around food inequality, it’s been a tumultuous year in hospitality. So what’s next?
‘All I want is chocolate’: Jamie Oliver and other top chefs on their Christmas wish lists Tinned fish, ceramic tableware and cornettos – Santa’s sack is full of unusual treats for our chefs and food writers
At-home meal kits: the gift of your favourite restaurant during lockdown ‘These boxes are like an emergency delivery of happiness’
The Zebra Riding Club, Cheshunt, Herts: ‘Food that sends you away jolly’ – restaurant review There are enough extras here to make this meal a banquet
‘Lyon’s a great, weird city’: Bill Buford’s five years in the heart of France’s food culture The writer uprooted his young family to France so he could train to be a proper chef. How did it work out?