Safety first: the future of Britain’s restaurants

Eating out is back – but the changes facing both customers and staff are immense. How is the new normal shaping up?

At last, going out for lunch, in a French place really worth the wait

Pique-Nique is impeccably Gallic – it’s a thrill to finally be able to eat here, says Jay Rayner

My first restaurant meal since lockdown was strange and joyful

Spontaneous nights out may be off the menu, but eating out again was strange and joyful

Andi Oliver: ‘When people are in trauma, they need the love of food’

The chef and broadcaster on the horrors of rural Suffolk in the 1970s, cooking with her best friend Neneh Cherry and the only way to eat oysters

Yori, London WC2: ‘Like a boxer refinding their feet’ – restaurant review

The very idea of Yori’s spring onion pancake helped me through at least 80 days of incarceration

Scrape, slice, deglaze… some kitchen tasks are just so satisfying

It’s the simple things that give me pleasure while cooking

A high street bistro that really delivers…

Côte at Home shows how to do home delivery with flair – assuming dinner turns up. By Jay Rayner

Soho seems just a handful of theatre and restaurant closures away from becoming a wasteland

‘After 104 days of staring into my fridge, the act of being offered a bread basket in an actual restaurant felt magical’

Dinner at home was a triumph, but Jay’s kitchen was wrecked

The place looked like a battleground, but on the other hand, the battle was won. By Jay Rayner

Spain this summer: three under-the-radar holiday regions

This is the year to skip Spain’s crowded costas and busy cities and head for its quiet and lovely mountains, countryside and coast

France this summer: four under-the-radar holiday regions

France will be a popular option for a post-lockdown break, and is big enough to offer lots of places where crowds can be avoided

The reopening of restaurants feels like chaos, but at least there’s a bar

The delicate, touchy-feely question about restaurants reopening – the one we’re possibly too scared to ask each other – is: “Are you brave enough to come out?”

The meal kits from restaurants you can plate up at home

Getting a little tired of your own cooking? There are new ways round it, says Jay Rayner

‘We’ll have to learn to slurp spaghetti without splashing fellow diners with Covid’

Alfresco dining will please some people but it’s impossible to eat at an outside table without buskers turning up to play La Bamba on their accordions

OFM’s classic cookbook: The Greens Cookbook by Deborah Madison

Deborah Madison was a pioneer of meat-free menus. David Tanis recalls the pleasures of her San Francisco restaurant’s cookbook