Food to consume -- bravo! -- in shopping centre? (8)
I believe the answer is:
meatball
'food' is the definition.
(meatball is a kind of food)
'consume bravo in shopping centre?' is the wordplay.
'consume' becomes 'eat' (eating is a kind of consuming).
'bravo' becomes 'b' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'shopping centre?' becomes 'mall' (I've seen this before).
'eat'+'b'='eatb'
'eatb' going into 'mall' is 'MEATBALL'.
'to' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for meatball that I've seen before include "Dull American" , "Rissole of beef, pork etc" , "minced beef, say" , "Item in the Greek dish keftedes" , "Lamb tale? (Anag)" .)