Related

• Edits / Food & Drink

  Slow eater

  

  Issue 23

  A terrible accident led Bruno Contigiani to found the Art of Slow Living movement. And he practises what he preaches with a leisurely ‘last’ lunch at the Elio Locanda Italiana in Tokyo, a hangout for sumo stars and polit…

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Edits / Food & Drink

  My Last Meal: Fish called wander

  

  Issue 32

  For her last meal, British fashion designer Margaret Howell would choose a venue and menu as simple and quintessentially English as her eponymous clothing brand – a picnic on a windswept beach near her weekend home on the…

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Edits / Food & Drink

  Make it simple

  

  Issue 20

  Celebrated Swedish chef Mathias Dahlgren enjoys preparing complex dinners at work but likes to keep things simple in his free time. For the setting of his last meal, he would choose the quiet Nyckelviken forest just outside…

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Edits / Food & Drink

  Post Taste

  

  Issue 63

  Located in a former post office, Kokako was set up by the owner of a coffee company, who believes in being close to his customers.

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

• Edits / Food & Drink

  My Last Meal: Taste for adventure

  

  Issue 33

  Record-breaking adventurer Bertrand Piccard comes from a long line of high-fliers. For his ‘last meal’, he would share a charbonnade in his favourite restaurant, Auberge de la Poste, in the village of Les Diablerets.

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Business / Food & Drink

  Tough nut to crack

  

  Issue 11

  Although the European nut market was worth over €8bn in 2007, consumption there is peanuts compared to the Middle East. But Al Rifai, the Lebanese ‘Rolls-Royce of nut companies’, is expanding into Europe’s underdeveloped…

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Business / Food & Drink

  Business Briefing

  

  Issue 50

  The young guns taking the tea world by storm, mobile markets and an eco-friendly super-yacht.

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Edits / Food & Drink

  My Last Meal: Asian exchange

  

  Issue 58

  Joël Robuchon’s 17 restaurants hold 26 Michelin stars. He chooses his venue Yoshi for his ‘last meal’ of green tea, salmon carpaccio, sushi and kudamono fruit salad. He finds inspiration in Japanese cuisine and believes the…

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

• Affairs / Food & Drink

  Noma hero

  

  Issue 62

  René Redzepi is regarded as one of the best chefs in the world and is credited with putting Denmark on the culinary map. Monocle meets the man at the forefront of the New Nordic cuisine.

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Edits / Food & Drink

  Lunch plans

  

  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…

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Edits / Food & Drink

  Home to roast

  

  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…

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now

  Edits / Food & Drink

  My Last Meal: Adman about town

  

  Issue 54

  Quick-witted adman George Lois shares his philosophy on advertising, creative sustenance and the perfect last meal.

  This article is available only to subscribers.

  Subscribe now