Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Monday 3 December
Coffee without the froth, please
With independent coffee houses more focused on science than service, should the once-alternative option now look to Starbucks for inspiration?
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Edits / Neighbourhood Business
Royal society
This month in our series on independent retail strips we shop for rare Nordic design, good coffee, well-loved books and violins on Thereses gate.
Edits / Food & Drink
Best Cafes
From breakfast at a food lover’s market in Melbourne to a fresh brew in Miami’s art district, Monocle films four independent coffee shops that each reflect the unique nature of their neighbourhoods.
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.
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Thursday 8 November
Storm in a coffee cup
It’s gone. Ding dong the witch is dead. The tax dodger (alleged) has been run out of town.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 17 December
Weekend agenda, 17/18 December
This weekend’s highlights include the newest Oliver Spencer shop in London, a pop-up café in Tokyo and the latest album by French chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 3 December
Where rebel tourism rules
In the street cafés of Asmara, which serve some of the best macchiatos and cappuccinos outside Italy, opposition politicians and rebel leaders gather to discuss how they are going to overthrow the government.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 10 August
Weekend agenda, 11/12 August
This weekend check out a great new restaurant in New York, enjoy Oslo’s premier music festival, and pick up WHY?’s new album.
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.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 6 May
Weekend agenda: 7/8 May
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s cultural selection, including exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, saucy short stories from one of Britain’s sharpest writers, and the decade-awaited solo album from Stevie Nicks.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 6 November
Hurricane Sandy and a wind-up radio
One week ago, life in Manhattan was very different from what it is today. There were no rumbling subterranean subway sounds nor beeping taxi cabs.
Edits / Travel
Monocle travel guide
We at Monocle like simple things done well. That’s why this month we focus on the essentials – a perfectly brewed coffee, sharply curated retail, and two blissful hotels – one whose build adheres to a traditional local love…
End Point / Small Business
Observation
In the year since Monocle moved in to Midori House the neighbourhood, like so many others, has seen some subtle but significant changes. Our editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé goes in search of a decent coffee.
Business / Manufacturing
Bean there done that
Nespresso, part of the Nestlé Group, invented those clever capsules to make a tasty, mess-free cup of coffee in 1986. Today, the company is booming thanks to its Swiss heritage and corporate skill.
Edits / Food & Drink
Stall orders
A new food hall in an old ironworks is helping change the face of both the docklands and the city’s food scene.
Edits / Neighbourhood Business
Inner North Portland
Long overshadowed by Seattle and San Francisco, Oregon’s largest city has achieved its own renown for an outdoors lifestyle, environmental emphasis and clichéd-but-real mania for coffee, beer, food and wine. North Portland…
Edits / Food & Drink
Food briefing
The restaurants, food products and star dishes on table this month.
Business / Business Hubs
Rivals for the crown
An oil boom is driving Santos’s remarkable transformation and, as the cash flows in, the port city’s coastal cache and ambitious regeneration means it’s giving drizzly São Paulo a run for its money.
Business / Industry
Business Briefing
Brands, sectors and players that will set the business agenda in the near future.
Business / Food & Drink
Make some dough
Pizza has long been heralded as a cheap, all-American staple. But delegates at Las Vegas’s International Pizza Expo were also witness to a booming artisanal pizza trend – and some dough tossers to boot.