Eyed food by gallery reception's entrance (5)
I believe the answer is:
tater
'eyed food' is the definition.
'tater' can be an answer for 'food' (tater is a kind of food). I'm unsure of the 'eyed' bit.
'by gallery reception's entrance' is the wordplay.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'gallery' becomes 'tate' (Tate Modern, Tate Britain etc).
'entrance' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'receptions' is 'r'.
'tate'+'r' is 'TATER'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tater that I've seen before include "Potato (informal)" , "Murphy" , "Spud" , "Potato (colloq.)" , "Charlotte, for example" .)