Business / Food & Drink
On the table
From the restaurant scene to what we’re pouring ourselves for breakfast and cooking up in our kitchens, we bring you four trends that are changing the business of what we eat and drink.
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Business / Food & Drink
Trångsviken
Monocle expolores how the Swedish town of Trångsviken is developing a reputation for breeding serial entrepreneurs.
Business / Manufacturing
Beer leader
Heineken and Carlsberg have been changing the Swiss beer market by buying up the country’s independent breweries. But in an Alpine village, a small company dedicated to artisanship and good design is standing firm.
Affairs / Arts
Europe briefing
The style of Russia's new first lady, and the not-so private lives of Finland's politicians.
Edits / Publishing
Wurst is best
Angelika Taschen has given more established book publishers a run for their money and turned the sexy and subversive Taschen Books into a global powerhouse. She chooses simple wurst for her last meal.
Edits / Small Business
Leading the flock
In the first of a regular monthly series of international street profiles, we popped down to Lamb’s Conduit Street for a stroll, some tapas and a little retail reconnaissance.
Business / Food & Drink
Pro Montagna
Monocle laces up its hiking boots to look at an innovative marketing initiative to promote farming and manufacturing in the Swiss Alps.
Edits / Innovation
Garfish and friends
Jacob Jensen’s products for Bang & Olufsen made design history in the 1960s and 1970s, but his design philosophy is perhaps more relevant today than ever. For an imaginary final lunch he chooses the “incredibly well-desi…
Edits / Retail
Inventory No. 60
The passing of the festive season for another year doesn’t mean that gifts and alcohol should be shunned until December. Make a present to yourself of, say, some unique kitchenware or organic soap, kick back with a glass…
Business / Food & Drink
Eataly
"Buy, taste and learn about the best foods all under the same roof." That's the slogan of Oscar Farinetti's super-market Eataly, which opened earlier this year in Turin. Housed in a former vermouth factory, Eataly offers…
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Friday 2 November
Yes! We have no vegetables whatsoever
On the breakfast and dinner tables of the seven million people who live in Hong Kong you’ll scarcely find a single product grown locally.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Tuesday 15 February
Cuisine under siege – a taste of life in Gaza
Think of Gaza, and what comes immediately to mind is unlikely to be the fragrance of slow-stewed shrimp with tomato, garlic and dill, or the taste of sour plum jam on freshly home-baked bread.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Wednesday 4 May
Soho’s secret drinking dens
London’s Soho was once famous for unmarked doors that led to private drinking clubs and semi-legal clip joints, but a new generation of bars and restaurants means that hidden venues are no longer the preserve of furtive…
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Monday 12 April
Vinitaly wine fair
Verona may be famous for a pair of besotted teenagers brought to life by the Bard, but in early April the Italian city focuses on another love story: the nation’s obsession with wine.
Business / Food & Drink
Beurre necessity
The Echiré cooperative has been churning out butter for more than a century. It must have been doing a good job too, as some of the world’s best restaurants won’t use anything else. Monocle looks at what makes Echiré a…
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.