Edits / Food & Drink
Café cultured
Coffee is a way of life for New Zealanders and there are no finer connoisseurs than the guys at Coffee Supreme. The company’s Al Keating gives Monocle a food-and-drink tour of his Ponsonby neighbourhood.
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Culture / Books
Le Thé dans L'Encrier
Situated off this Provençal village’s main square, Le Thé dans l’Encrier serves as the sole bookshop to 1,100 inhabitants and myriad tourist
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocle travel guide
This month we’ve found a relaxed place to sip coffee in London, a cosy lodge for late-season Alpine skiing and the best fish supper in Rome.
The Menu, episode 16
Lisbon’s kiosk café culture, Nicolas Joly discusses organic wine’s rise in Europe, and Australian chef Bill Granger recommends a restaurant soundtrack.
Culture / Music
Saint Etienne
A band that shares a few of Monocle’s own city-centric obsessions, St Etienne has mined the rainy pavements, smoky cafés and sweaty nightclubs of London to tell cinematic stories of life, love and iconic architecture.…
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 11 December
A Hungarian Hannukah
As Jews around the world prepare to celebrate the festival of Hannukah tonight, the Hungarian capital is hosting its biggest-ever Hannukah festival.
Edits / Travel
Monocolumn
Monday 14 May
Don’t call me a tourist
Does anyone really like being called a tourist? A traveller, a visitor or even a foreigner perhaps but never a tourist.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Thursday 7 June
Countries should do more to promote cuisine
How many Finnish restaurants do you know?
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Sunday 13 December
The engine of the new economy
If it’s true that information is the only natural resource Germany has to offer, then Berlin is quickly moving from the equivalent of mining city to refinery.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Tuesday 30 October
Kohee time
The latest issue of the influential Japanese men’s magazine, Brutus, is devoted entirely to coffee.
Business / Retail
Monocolumn
Tuesday 10 April
Save our high streets – don’t bet on it
Many years ago, as a reckless youth, I went into a local betting shop and put down a few pounds on the Grand National.
Business / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 13 July
Selling hummus to Israelis
When they first began arriving in the country in 2005, Sudan’s war-weary Darfuri refugees posed a serious problem for Israeli immigration authorities.
Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Monday 14 June
The horns and the dilemma
Football, as a spectacle, is uniquely dependent on its fans.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 30 October
Shore thing?
A sensible investor could be forgiven for looking elsewhere. Batumi doesn’t quite scream out “promising resort town with guaranteed return on investments” to those with a tuned sense of risk.
Affairs / Television
Monocolumn
Tuesday 18 January
The freeing of the press
Last night, Tunisian state television showed protesters out on the streets calling for the party of the ex-president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to be abolished and for veterans of the old regime to be excluded from the new…
Culture / Technology
Monocolumn
Wednesday 22 December
Forecast 2011: The digital backlash begins
In Germany all the blogging, tweeting and iPad-swiping of 2010 has led to a cultural countermovement that’s likely to grow even stronger next year.
Design / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Monday 19 October
Poles apart
Diplomatic design is back in the spotlight thanks to a new British embassy that has just officially opened in Warsaw.
Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Tuesday 23 April
Play time
The games available on smartphones and tablets can drive a daily commuter in Hong Kong to distraction.
Affairs / Books
Monocolumn
Sunday 12 June
Quality of life series – Turning a page in Faulkner country
Around one in five adults in Mississippi will not be able to read this column. The poorest state in America, Mississippi also has the country’s lowest literacy rates, a historic problem within its educational system that…
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Saturday 27 February
The Italian restaurant invasion
Last year there were many restaurant closures in Manhattan. Across Gotham more than 500 establishments from ambitious upstarts to legends such as Tavern on the Green shut their doors due to the economic downturn.