Josh Fehnert
Monocle’s Quality of Life Survey 2022
Monocle’s 15th annual Quality of Life Survey charts 25 outposts on the up and ranks the best places to put down roots. Did your city make the cut?
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A Dutch flower-and-plant fair is teaching the world how to green its urban environments.
Bread winners: Madrid’s bakers revive Spain’s lost loaf
A new crop of bakeries is resurrecting the art of Spanish bread-making, a tradition disrupted by civil war and industrialisation. We sample the upper crust.
Staying power
Checking in at intimate boltholes including a Portuguese hilltop town hotel, a wine shrine in a former Arizona newspaper building, and more characterful new properties worldwide
Suite dreams
Whether it's LA for a peaceful retreat that was once an infamous motel, Sri Lanka for boutique luxury or a Provençal village for a hôtel particulier, here are our favourite new hotels.
In good taste
An Appalachian homage, exquisite French delicacies, avocado on toast and a comfort-food favourite — indulge in some of the tastiest treats on our radar this month.
Tour de forks
From a Parisian chocolatier-cum-café to a French hideaway in London and a terrific tarte tatin, there is plenty of Gallic flavour to this month’s rundown of restaurants and recipes.
Slice things up
Here's what's fresh in the gourmet world: from a cheese affineur who goes to grate lengths to a Norwegian opening in Tokyo and the launch of a newly renovated Los Angeles legend.
Overnight successes
Catch the Northern Lights in a small Swedish city or sample wine on a Portuguese island, where you stay matters. Here are three boltholes that are destinations in themselves.
Orders of merit
From a buzzy Berlin food hall to a Japanese lunch legend’s fresh start, we round up the pick of the new culinary openings, flavoured with a lip-smacking recipe for crispy chicken.
