01Organic ramps
02Boiled hen’s eggs
03Waters with friends in the market
04Waters prepares the day’s selections
05Spring strawberries
06Radishes for the salad
07Fresh herbs
08The meal, accompanied by a carafe of rosé
Food is an entire philosophy for Alice Waters, founder of restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. She would choose to dine with family for her hypothetical last meal, and on the menu would be fresh produce bought from the nearest local farmers’ market.
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 38
Skyscraper climber Alain Robert, aka the ‘Real Spiderman’, would like to live a life of uncertainty right up until his dying breath, with a surprise menu at his local restaurant.
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 61
A restaurant in central Hamburg has been pleasing guests with its homely cooking for more than 20 years.
Issue 35
For Alain Ducasse's 'last meal', the Michelin-starred chef and famed restauranteur pays tribute to Monaco and the restaurant that sealed his reputation. He's also used to contemplating his demise. In 1984 he survived a…
Issue 50
Leading soprano Deborah Voigt chooses the suitably breath-taking lakeside Boathouse restaurant in Central Park for her imaginary last meal.
Issue 41
Finalist in the Nariz de Oro sommelier competition, San Sebastián-based Dani Corman is one of Spain’s finest noses. Local and Michelin-starred restaurants call upon his skills when they draw up their wine lists and order…
Issue 61
Our favourite cookware, products and restaurants plus news from the food and drink industry.
Issue 51
Here are five of Melbourne’s newest off-the-radar bars and kitchens opened by young chefs, baristas, barkeepers and designers.
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 48
The Hollywood actor, director and fashion designer shares his ‘last meal’ in a restaurant built into the rocks near his home in Provence.
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…
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