Beautiful food, reportedly (4)
I believe the answer is:
fair
'beautiful' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'food reportedly' is the wordplay.
'food' becomes 'fare' (fare is a kind of food).
'reportedly' shows a homophone (sound like).
'fare' is a homophone of 'FAIR'.
(Other definitions for fair that I've seen before include "Just right" , "(Of skin) pale" , "nothing special" , "Treating people equally" , "Pretty; impartial" .)