Cue Point At Home: ‘I rampage through the delivery menu’ – restaurant review

Home-delivered Afghan-Guyanese fusion barbecue is exactly what we all need right now, says Jay Rayner

How to get through Christmas in the time of coronavirus

Celebrations will be diminished for everyone by Covid this year: we need to focus on the things we’d love. Like lobster for two

Samuel West: ‘We have kippers for Christmas breakfast, with a glass of champagne’

The actor on his mum’s cheese sauce, homemade cocktails with his partner, and having dinner with Falstaff

The Quality Street won’t taste the same without my family

‘Christmas 2020 will be a year of missing people and missing ingredients’

Prosecco crisps, pigs in blankets pot noodles – please make these Christmas treats stop

What to do with festive specials in the supermarket aisles? Probably leave well alone

Northcote at Home: ‘Am I a fan? Yes’ – restaurant review

Christmas comes early with two gloriously indulgent gourmet boxes sent from Lancashire. By Jay Rayner

How I fell in love with Portugal’s briny, garlicky clams – plus the recipe

One food writer so loved the country’s famed shellfish he set up his own restaurant in the clam capital of the Algarve

The only thing most of us will be wearing this party season is slightly smarter pyjamas

‘I’ve given up trying to control anything now,’ I announced last Tuesday while breakfasting on a packet of jelly babies

Feasts and holy days in the Kazakhstan desert

Sometimes the most interesting cooking is found in the most unlikely places, as our writer discovers on a road trip in the country’s vast wild west

My best food and travel memory: readers’ tips

From soup with blue fenugreek in Georgia to haggis in the Hebrides via ramen in Tokyo … our tipsters savour the best meals of their travels

The Tramshed Project, London: ‘It’s so now’: restaurant review

With its big flavours and easy versatility, the Tramshed will nourish you in all the ways you need

I’m a key worker, get me out of here!

‘How curious and muted a land is without its restaurants, bars and cafes’

‘I’m seeing an industry disappear’: how lockdown is leaving hospitality workers homeless

For thousands working in bars, restaurants and hotels, the future is uncertain. We talk to the casualties of lockdown – and to those battling to support them

‘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

David Lammy: ‘You can be critical of your country and still love it’

The Labour MP talks about belonging, Brexit and Caribbean comfort food