Looking back: Eating out

Friends eating at restaurant table. Photograph: Alamy

12 August 1898 Cheap restaurants in London.

5 October 1926 Pudding Season opens at the Cheshire Cheese: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is among speakers at the Fleet Street pub’s annual celebration, an evening of pudding, pipes and Dr Johnson.

9 October 1940 Hot meals for Londoners hit by the blitz.

24 January 1957 Rising popularity of Indian restaurants in Britain.

The Bombay Restaurant, Manchester, 1957. Photograph: Unknown for the Guardian

8 November 1959 Not with a Banger but a Wimpy: at least once a week a Wimpy Bar is being opened somewhere in England.

13 June 1968 Good Food Guide to eating ins and outs - Now in its 19th year, critics disdain its homely detail and catholic coverage. Just how good is the Good Food Guide?

Restaurant owners Mario Cassandro (left) and Franco Lagattolla sample the cuisine at their establishment, September 1968. Photograph: Stan Meagher/Getty Images

5 September 1968 Women’s trousers get a dressing down in London restaurants.

29 February 1980 Meat’s off - a visit to a branch of Cranks, a chain of vegetarian restaurants.

Cranks vegetarian food store and restaurant in Canary Wharf, east London. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

1 March 2006 Dining in the dark: all the attributes you’d expect from a good restaurant except you’ll be eating in pitch darkness.

1 May 2013 Odd buildings as restaurants - in pictures.

9 April 2014 Fine dining’s identity crisis: is this the end of posh restaurants?

7 June 2016 How to get bums on seats at London’s first naked restaurant.

Clothing optional dinner participants at a New York City restaurant for naked dining. Photograph: Mike Segar/REUTERS