Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill, London: ‘The kind of place I daydreamed about’ – restaurant review

Great seafood, cool white wine, expert cookery in a refreshing space… what’s not to love, asks Jay Rayner

Brat at Climpson’s Arch, London: ‘I love the rackety, freestyle vibe’: restaurant review

Our first night out of lockdown captivity, and it’s swoon-worthy small plates in Hackney. By Jay Rayner

Mike’s, London SE15: ‘This is why we bother to put on pants and go out to eat’ – restaurant review

A deceptively humble pizza joint serving fancy toppings on serious slices

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

Nadiya Hussain: ‘I never even dreamed of being a part of all this’

For Observer Food Monthly’s 20th anniversary, the TV presenter and cook recalls baking cakes for her GCSEs 20 years ago – and the worst thing about cooking at home in a pandemic

Nigella Lawson: ‘I can be ecstatically happy with just bread and cheese’

In an exchange of emails, the broadcaster and writer explains how Twitter helped her through lockdown and what she eats on a night off

Cookbooks are great, pastry is easy…

What I learned in my year as a restaurant critic stuck at home, by Jay Rayner

The joy of eating out again. The pain of trying to get a table

‘Would you like to go on the waiting list?’ may now be the most terrible words in the English language

‘I’m hungry for something decadent!’: readers on 11 restaurants they have missed most

In England, dining out is back on the menu. The rest of the UK should soon follow suit. But where to go first? Guardian readers on the brilliant local eateries they’re yearning to get back to – and the dish they will eat first

At last, printed menus and a chance to wear smoky eyeshadow again

‘Restaurants are back, back, back, so I booked breakfast to see off the misery of the past year’

What got me through lockdown? Sharing pork belly with the next-door neighbours

Swapping missing ingredients and spare custard tarts over the garden wall made difficult times a little easier to live with

The old scrapbook recipe collections that tell the story of our lives

Our personal recipe collections catalogue the food we have loved – and the dishes we dreamed of making