Feature of kitchen artist captured in café (7)
I believe the answer is:
drainer
'cafe' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'feature of kitchen artist captured' is the wordplay.
'feature of kitchen' becomes 'diner' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'artist' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'captured' indicates putting letters inside.
'diner' enclosing 'ra' is 'DRAINER'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for drainer that I've seen before include "Where crockery dries" , "Rack for wet crockery" , "Crockery drying rack" , "one drying out?" , "it will be next to sink" .)