The Menu
Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes
Common denominators
We hear about the characteristics and management skills shared by the world’s greatest chefs. Plus: Copenhagen’s blossoming café scene and the only fish restaurant in the UK to have received two Michelin stars.
Discovering Japanese food
Japan’s lesser-known culinary treasures, a visit to South Tyrol’s Summa wine fair, plus how Simon Rogan is going to take the world over with his British food.
Enrique Olvera’s Mexican home cooking
Mexican chef Enrique Olvera’s favourite recipes for home cooks and a Yarra Valley business offering customers a chance to distil their own spirits. Plus: what makes for a high-end instant-coffee brand?
Diego Muñoz
Peruvian chef Diego Muñoz’s ambitious plans, a Sydney café helping refugees get back on their feet and Nancy Silverton’s recipe for a poke bowl.
Cycling chef
Tasty recipes for professional and everyday athletes, what got Florence’s Pitti Taste food fair talking this year, plus glass design innovation by Riedel.
‘Salt & Time’
Top recipes from Russia, Ljubljana’s ambitious plan to become Europe’s culinary capital, plus how you can help eliminate food waste by drinking beer.
The perfect vinegar
The vinegars you should have in your cupboard, why food really matters onboard a Finnish icebreaker and a unique Canadian whisky.
‘New Kitchen Basics’
How food writer and chef Claire Thomson reinvented the use of some of the most common home kitchen ingredients, why Helsinki’s cocktail scene is on the rise, a bicycle pie business in Sydney and a recipe from Peruvian chef Diego Muñoz.
The essence of wine
We visit Portugal’s top wine event Essência do Vinho, meet the founder of London’s new vegan curry house SpiceBox and get the week’s top news headlines from North America.
Recipe for success
How a new private members’ club in London is going to challenge the big players, a Jewish food success story, plus a Porto restaurant combining incredible architecture with top food.
