OFM Awards 2019: Best restaurant – the runners-up

Readers vote for their favourite restaurants – from steaks and seafood in Belfast to authentic Vietnamese in north London

The best thing I ate in 2018

Tacos in Philadelphia, doughnuts in Cleethorpes, grilled lamb in Istanbul – cooks and writers including Prue Leith, Nathan Outlaw and Clare Smyth pick their culinary highlights

The 20 best food books from 2001-2017

To mark 200 issues of Observer Food Monthly, we pick the most significant books published in the years since the magazine launched