The 50 best wines for Christmas 2019
High street bargains, best value buys – and reds, whites and fizz to splash out on, chosen for Observer Food Monthly
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Christmas taste test: the best party food and booze
From champagne and smoked salmon to paté and negronis – ranked by Fred Sirieix
Christmas taste test: cheese and chocolate
Potted stilton, salted caramels and festive boxes of chocs – it wouldn’t be Christmas without them. Andi Oliver rates the classics
Trade war: France hits back over US tariff threat on cheese and champagne – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as US proposes steep new tariffs on French food, drink, handbags and porcelain
- Introduction: Trade war deepens
- US unhappy over French digital tax
- France: We’ll hit back!
- Yesterday: new steel tariffs on Brazil and Argentina
‘World’s best sushi restaurant’ stripped of its three Michelin stars
Guide will not rate Sukiyabashi Jiro in Tokyo as it is no longer open to the public
Which? reveals its pick of the best supermarket luxury mince pies
Panel blind-tests 11 premium mince pies – and picks M&S as the favourites