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Our guide to the world of food, drink and entertaining, The Menu serves up interviews with the world’s most creative chefs, introduces the makers behind the scenes and the ingredients that will soon be landing on your restaurant table.

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We feature a new Helsinki restaurant that’s pushing the boundaries in sourcing local ingredients and a UK initiative supporting hospitality entrepreneurs. Plus: what’s bubbling on Poland’s food and restaurant scene.

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★	18 Feb 2020 6 min	Food Neighbourhoods 172: Rio de Janeiro, Botafogo: Monocle’s Latin America affairs correspondent Lucinda Elliott takes us to an area in Rio that is a hotspot for new restaurants.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
435	14 Feb 2020 30 min	Directly from nature: We feature a new Helsinki restaurant that’s pushing the boundaries in sourcing local ingredients and a UK initiative supporting hospitality entrepreneurs. Plus: what’s bubbling on Poland’s food and restaurant scene.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	11 Feb 2020 5 min	Food Neighbourhoods 171: Bangalore, Central Business District : Monocle’s Tiya Thomas-Alexander takes us to one of South India’s most populated cities for a tour of its top food and drink discoveries.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
434	7 Feb 2020 30 min	Filipino food’s new direction: How chef Budgie Montoya is reinventing Filipino food in London. Plus: Lisbon’s rising culinary talent, João Sá, and what’s new on Zürich’s restaurant scene.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	4 Feb 2020 6 min	Food Neighbourhoods 170: Murmansk: We visit the largest city in the Arctic Circle, where the local cuisine bursts with flavour, despite the harsh conditions.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
433	31 Jan 2020 30 min	The perfect match : How a new London initiative aims to match vacant restaurant spaces with young culinary talent, a J-pop star’s campaign to boost the popularity of sake in Japan, plus Maggie Beer’s campaign for better food in Australia.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	28 Jan 2020 5 min	Food Neighbourhoods 169: Vientiane : Monocle’s Nicholas Toomey takes us on a culinary tour around the capital of Laos.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
432	24 Jan 2020 30 min	Supplying the world’s best chefs : How Franco Fubini’s Natoora supplies fine European produce to the world’s best chefs. Plus: the son of Salvatore Ferragamo tastes success in the wine industry and why some of Japan’s top chefs will be cooking in Europe.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	21 Jan 2020 3 min	Food Neighbourhoods 168: São Paulo: Monocle's Fernando Augusto Pacheco returns to his home city to revisit some old favourite restaurants – and to sample some new ones too.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
431	17 Jan 2020 30 min	The rise of Portuguese gastronomy : How Bar Douro gave Portuguese food the recognition it deserves in London. Plus: drinks writer Fiona Beckett on getting the most out of non-alcoholic drinking.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	14 Jan 2020 6 min	Food Neighbourhoods 167: Tobago, Windward Road: A trip down Windward Road on the island of Tobago, the location of some of the best food and drink in the Caribbean.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
430	10 Jan 2020 30 min	Food discoveries from the Baltics: Top dishes from the Baltic countries that the world still hasn’t discovered and the success story of Hong Kong’s Feather & Bone, which grew from a butcher shop into a beloved restaurant and delicatessen.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	7 Jan 2020 5 min	Food Neighbourhoods 166: Moscow, Depo market : We visit one of the Russian capital’s top culinary destinations – a market that claims to be the biggest food hall in Europe.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
429	3 Jan 2020 30 min	Food Neighbourhoods: best of 2019 : A round-up of the best food tours of 2019 from Los Angeles, Baghdad, Stockholm and Turin.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
428	27 Dec 2019 30 min	Best of 2019: Markus Hippi recaps the best interviews and reports from 2019, with top chefs such as Kobus van der Merwe, Ana Roš and Jason Atherton.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play

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The Menu

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Latest episodes

Food Neighbourhoods 172: Rio de Janeiro, Botafogo:

Directly from nature:

Food Neighbourhoods 171: Bangalore, Central Business District :

Filipino food’s new direction:

Food Neighbourhoods 170: Murmansk:

The perfect match :

Food Neighbourhoods 169: Vientiane :

Supplying the world’s best chefs :

Food Neighbourhoods 168: São Paulo:

The rise of Portuguese gastronomy :

Food Neighbourhoods 167: Tobago, Windward Road:

Food discoveries from the Baltics:

Food Neighbourhoods 166: Moscow, Depo market :

Food Neighbourhoods: best of 2019 :

Best of 2019:

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