Omi beef from Shiga prefecture is little known outside Japan, but its butter-soft consistency and low fat content means that restaurateurs, meat producers and diners from New York to Australia are starting to take notice…
Bouchon is a welcome addition to the Monaco restaurant scene, serving French classics often prepared at the table in front of diners.
Specialising in washugyu, Japan Premium Beef is seeking to re-educate New Yorkers about steak.
The Sea Horse warms hearts with its simple Finnish comfort food. Here’s how to cook a cosy feast.
The furniture made by the husband and wife team behind Truck is so popular that the couple have been able to move into stunning new premises complete with workshop, showroom and their own café serving steak and doughnuts…
Thursday 4 March
A few years ago, when it was planning its entrance into the US, the Lebanese chain Kabab-ji hired a consulting firm for recommendations on where it should locate the first of its full-service kebab restaurants.
Thursday 28 February
A New York institution has landed in London. But shouldn't cities be excited for their own homegrown successes?
Saturday 26 March
Something for the weekend: Monocle’s global pick of exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, pop-up restaurants to savour a Sunday lunch, and films to watch while you bid adieu to the weekend come Sunday evening.
Lapo Elkann, founder of lifestyle brand Italia Independent, prefers rustic, simple Italian food. He’d have his last meal at Sant’Eustorgio because of its picturesque location and comfort food.
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.
While in Dubai for the UAE’s first Arab Women Leadership Forum, 34-year-old TV-show host Muna Abu Sulayman met with Monocle for her ‘last meal’. The Saudi citizen chose Saladicious, a restaurant in the Jumeirah district.
Tourism in the Caribbean and trade links between the Middle East and Latin America.
Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson, CEO of the Baugur Group, has created a retail empire spanning Iceland, Scandinavia and the UK. He started with £7,000 equity in Reykjavik 18 years ago. The Baugur Group portfolio investments include…
Iceland's healthy take on the pharmacy, a playful kindergarten in Germany, making Hay in Copenhagen and the sharpest knives in the box.
Australians get the hump, Fiji loses its midwives and Aussie males get a bad reputation.
Master of dark comedies and tales of the absurd, Andrey Kurkov is the Ukrainian author of ‘Death And The Penguin’ and ‘A Matter of Death and Life’. For his last meal, he takes us to his local haunt, Jungle Cat, for some…
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.
Claus Meyer, writer, food campaigner and part-time vinegar maker, shows us his favourite food haunts around Frederiksberg, a unique municipality in the heart of the Danish capital.
Even though La Candelaria is in Bogotá’s city centre parts of it feel like a remote Andean village. With its colonial mansions, bohemian atmosphere and plans for regeneration afoot, foreign property buyers are investing in…
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