A restaurant refresher course: how do I behave in one?

‘It’s a wonderful, heavenly, magical place but, please, no standing on the seats for your TikTok shoot’

Tell us about the restaurant you miss – and the food you can’t wait to order

As hospitality venues prepare to reopen, we’d love to know the place you’re most keen to visit, and the dish you’ve been craving during lockdown

Cook dinner with Robert Carrier and you’ll need butter, cream, wine and quite a lot of cognac

Great Dishes of the World was a fabulous book full of all the richest flavours. By Jay Rayner

A lesson from Covid: my needs are pathetically minuscule

‘As we edge towards freedom, I often think of the cupboards still crammed with flour, rice, yeast, suet and scone mix that we bought to stave off a pandemic’

Trails of the unexpected: seafood in Scotland and fish and chips in Yorkshire

We’ll soon be able to venture beyond our local park … so in the first of The Observer’s guide to Britain’s best secret places we’re off in search of fine food

Nigella Lawson’s How To Eat is a feast of favourite recipes and high camp

The glorious sense of indulgence is matched by a life-saving sense of humour. By Jay Rayner

If we must eat outside, I won’t let a bit of trench foot spoil a picnic

‘The cold, hard truth about eating outside is, it’ll probably be 11C, so pack a bobble hat and wear thermal knickers’

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?

Taste test: the best high street Easter eggs

Dark to white, nougat to mint – pastry chef and Junior Bake Off judge Ravneet Gill rates this year’s best chocolate eggs

Save the last slice for me: four cakes for Easter

Brilliant recipes for passion fruit panna cotta sponge, coconut tres leches, banana-cocoa and pecan brittle – and a chocolate mousse gateau

My secret ingredient: boiled lemons

‘It tastes so much better than preserved lemon,’ says Claudia Roden

The wannabe food influencer who’s wanted by the FBI

When a man calling himself Gavin Ambani tried to make his mark on the London food scene, the story of a fraud hunt stretching from Hollywood to Indonesia followed in his wake

Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery was a guide to another world

She saved us from terrible British versions of curry and taught us how to roast and grind spices. By Jay Rayner

I know why I’m restless. But why am I craving custard tarts and Thorntons toffee?

As we hit the first anniversary of lockdown, I realise it’s people and places that I’m really hungry for

Ainsley Harriott: ‘My sister still takes control of my cooking at home’

The chef and TV presenter on being lectured by his siblings, what to drink while playing backgammon – and cooking for his dog