Tom Kerridge: ‘My barbecue isn’t about finesse: it’s all about flavour’

Tom Kerridge fires up the grill with six exclusive recipes, including Lebanese-spiced lamb chops, grilled cucumber with satay and aromatic lemon sole. Plus, Richard Turner on how smoke works

Taste test: picnic food and drink

Scotch eggs and quiches, strawberry trifles and lashings of ginger beer – summer picnic essentials rated by Eleonora Galasso

The Garden Café, London: ‘A lovely new space’ – restaurant review

Visitors to London’s Garden Museum will be impressed to see how its new café is bedding in, says Jay Rayner

Who wants to share their plate? Definitely not me

You can hardly escape sharing plates when you eat out – but who gets the last bite? Time to embrace your inner glutton …

Roth Bar & Grill, Bruton: restaurant review

Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset gallery looks amazing. The bonus is that the cooking is more than a match for the art, says Jay Rayner

‘I’ll sit outside with a cold beer, prawns and some oysters’ – John Torode’s Sydney

The chef and MasterChef presenter shares his favourite Sydney views, beaches, bars and seafood joints

The Sign of the Angel, Lacock, Wiltshire: hotel review

Known for period dramas and an ancient abbey, the village of Lacock has an equally quaint inn – but with up-to-the-minute food in its atmospheric restaurant

Great restaurants in Lisbon: readers’ tips

Lisbon is teeming with fresh (and cheap) seafood, tapas and exotic dishes from Portugal’s colonial past. But it’s not just the food – our readers are wowed by the ambience and views, too

Tallinn’s ‘new Nordic’ food scene – and the restaurants leading the way

A new generation of Estonian chefs is feeding a culinary revolution by mixing Scandi-style cooking with traditional flavours to create innovative dishes at affordable prices

El Pastór, London: restaurant review

If you think the food of Mexico is all mushy avocados and soft tortillas, this Borough taqueria will prove you wrong, says Jay Rayner

Eagle + Child, Ramsbottom, Lancashire: hotel review

This nattily revamped pub has a new look and an excellent new chef – a welcome addition to this handsome town’s already thriving food scene

Noble: restaurant review

There’s an art to not showing off, and when your food is this good, you don’t need to shout about it. Jay Rayner heads to Noble, just outside Belfast

What’s the point of posh salt?

Sea salt, salt flakes, salt from Cyprus, salt from the Himalayas – can anyone really taste the difference?

Frozen in Time: Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, New York, March 1981

The most glamorous couple in pop, photographed in their New York kitchen by Allen Tannenbaum

How baking helped save my life

The science and magic of baking led Elisabeth Mahoney away from grief and into a new life and successful business