The great Christmas taste test 2017

Observer Food Monthly’s bumper review of high street cheese, chocolates, pies, cakes, puddings and more. And yes, our star reviewers shall go to the ball …

Christmas dessert recipes

Break with tradition and try Jeremy Lee’s rum-infused meringue cake, orange and lemon trifle and apple and mincemeat pie

French toast: the pudding of 2015?

Food critics are suddenly falling over themselves to praise the age-old snack/dessert. Why has it been thrust into the foodie-limelight – and where are the best places to try it?

Bettys: restaurant review

They may not know much about rosti or chicken schnitzel, but there’s much about Bettys to make a man crumble