How Beirut restaurants are changing their menus during Lent, we meet the Finnish barista of the year, and see what’s in Santiago’s basket.

Sydney’s new wave of small bars, the latest on aeroplane food, and we visit Chicago to find our barista of the week.

The Hong Kong tea restaurants reinvigorating ancient traditions, we talk to the people behind 42Raw restaurant, and Berlin has our barista of the week.

In the days leading up to Christmas we have compiled a last minute gift list for budding baristas, bag ladies and gents and terminally obsessed typographers.

Soul food in Chicago, meaty, hearty fare in Greenland, and we check out what it takes to be barista of the week in Lisbon.

Fishing for sea urchins in northern Norway, tasting chocolate in Turin, and we pick our barista of the week.

How to make bugs into an appealing food, we meet Swedish Michelin-starred chef Niklas Ekstedt who cooks his dishes without electricity, and enjoy a visit to the UK Barista Championships.

Food from the southern states of the US, we learn about Chilean honey, talk with baristas in Madrid and find out what’s in Santiago’s basket.

A look at Egyptian food’s renaissance, we speak to top chefs David Toutain and Nicolai Nørregaard in Copenhagen, and meet the barista of the week in Tokyo.

A 22-course-meal in Nepal, we meet the winner of the UK Barista Championship, and we find out what it takes to be a master chef.

Copenhagen’s new food hall, we meet the Lisbon chef keeping things simple, and seek out our Barista of the week in Los Angeles.

For the first episode of The Menu, we meet Wally Olins over dinner, meet a Swedish barista and get drink recommendations from a Japanese sommelier.

On The Menu this week Tyler Brûlé talks with Sharleen Spiteri about her love of cooking and a Brazilian barista explains the art of coffee making.

This week we learn about jam manufacturing in India, visit organic farmers in Hong Kong and get tips from a barista in New York.

We visit the London Coffee Festival for the latest brews, meet possibly the most successful Norwegian barista of all time – Rasmus Helgebostad – and chat to world-famous Italian chef Massimo Bottura.