01Waitresses sing karaoke
02A chef in the kitchen
03Pigs’ blood and noodle sausages, a North Korean speciality
04Kimchi, an assortment of pickled vegetables
05Waitresses in traditional costume
06A waitress cooks food at the table
Strung out across Southeast Asia is a chain of restaurants where doll-like North Korean waitresses sing to diners as they sample the country’s cuisine (well, what’s left of it). Is it a benign culinary business foray or something altogether more sinister?
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…
Issue 63
Make your workspace orderly, your skin healthy and your drinks cupboard inviting with this month's line-up of *Monocle*'s favourite new products.
Issue 5
As mayor of Curitiba in Brazil, Jaime Lerner turned heads with his forward-thinking schemes. He took the kids off the streets by paying them to clean them up and had fishermen angling for rubbish so they could work off…
Issue 37
This month’s tips for travellers include foodie havens in Jerusalem and Miami, and beautiful places to lay your head in Santiago, Copenhagen and the Italian countryside. We also profile Japan’s one-plane airline, Amakusa…
Issue 8
The changing face of the office lunch in Mumbai, a foodie's haven in Turin, and Hermès takes to the skies.
Issue 60
An update on all things food-related, such as a kitchen garden in Melbourne and a sushi taxi in Japan.
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 36
A family business has been producing a simple niche product for five decades. By making the most of its employees’ expertise to constantly refine the “perfect” glass washer, it now sells to more than 50 countries.
Issue 51
TV chef Kentaro Kobayashi is known for no-nonsense dishes and his show teaching men how to cook. Over a meal at his favourite Italian restaurant, he talks about his accidental route into becoming a chef.
Issue 51
Going out in Sydney just got even better with new upstarts including a bike shop-cum-espresso outlet and a tequila bar.
Issue 3
In our regular series on the world’s more obscure yet inspirational trade fairs, *Monocle* despatched a team to Rimini to cover Sigep, one of the biggest ice cream trade conventions in the world.
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.
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