01Chocolatier Guido Gobino is housed in a listed building with the signage of a previous owner still in place
02Cannoli pastries
03Guido Martinetti
04Baudracco deli
05Preparing a Grom cone
06Antipasti at Tre Galline
07Casa del Barrolo
08Gertosio
09Gianduja chocolate at Guido Gobino
10Cheese trolley at Tre Galline
11Exterior of Gertosio
12Tre Galline
Guido Martinetti is one half of the chilled duo behind Grom ice cream (and one of our ‘new heroes’ featured in issue 29). When he is not on the road checking on suppliers, he can be found around Piazza Carlo Felice in his native Turin, where he eats, drinks and shops for fresh pasta and wine.
Issue 34
Eccentric Michelin-starred chef Pierre Wind takes Monocle on a gastro-tour of Scheveningen, The Hague’s seaside neighbourhood, showing us where he buys the best oysters and juicy ham for his dog.
Issue 60
Turkish photographer Ara Güler has always found eating a bit of a distraction but he found time to sit down for a meal with Monocle.
Issue 39
Asia remains thirsty for western wines and in California there’s an unlikely vineyard owner making the most of the boom: computer game mogul Kenzo Tsujimoto. Overleaf we look at more food and drink trends for 2011 and…
Issue 62
Sculptor Rachel Whiteread is a regular at London restaurant St John, an establishment that has been a favourite with artists for nearly 20 years.
Issue 61
A new food hall in an old ironworks is helping change the face of both the docklands and the city’s food scene.
Issue 11
When Tokyo-based design guru Kenya Hara is asked to create graphics, he usually ends up advising a company on its entire aesthetic direction. This is how he became design adviser to no-label Muji. As well as generating…
Issue 36
Seattle-born Cynthia Barcomi opened her first café in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood in the 1990s. Since then, her coffee, cakes and bagels have become a local legend. She takes us on a tour of the district’s best bake…
Issue 6
Each issue, we take an everyday pursuit or situation and give it the *Monocle* overhaul. This month, we stock up on some late-summer essentials to fill the shelves of our perfect pantry.
Issue 2
Riccardo Illy is president of both Illy, his family’s coffee-making company, and the Assembly of European Regions, created in 1985 to give voice to the continent’s provinces and generate a forum for mutual cultural insight…
Issue 7
Bassam Ghraoui and his workers defy the Syrian heat to produce exquisitely packaged, award-winning chocolates and fondants. We join them to find out why, for Ghraoui, the future is orange.
Issue 12
The centre of Germany’s second-largest city used to be known for its drugs and sex shops. Now, with ongoing gentrification, comes a retail concept that combines local organic produce with slick design.
Issue 61
Think you’ve got the measure of the Haribo gummy bear? Think again. Behind that loveable face is a company that buys out rivals and takes its competitors to court. And we bet you didn’t know what country he’s from…
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