
The Menu
Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes

Supporting the locals
We discover how to create a beloved neighbourhood restaurant and visit a Venice restaurant championing local ingredients. Plus: a Berlin initiative connecting food innovators and industry.

Varied tastes
A visit to the Canadian Food Championships in Edmonton and London’s new west-Africa-inspired restaurant Ikoyi, plus the week’s top headlines from Italy.

The Monocle Restaurant Awards
The winners of this year’s Monocle Restaurant Awards. Plus, the Mexican food-tour boom and the week’s top headlines from Hong Kong.

Treats from Lisbon
Why Lisbon food deserves more attention, the oldest Arabic ice-cream parlour in Ramallah, plus top-notch wine from Ecuador.

The best of Stockholm
We’re in Stockholm to meet some of the most ambitious, innovative and clever entrepreneurs shaking up the Swedish capital’s food-and-drink scene.

The Hawaiian treat
Tips for preparing poke, Massimo Bottura’s latest not-for-profit project, the future of port-wine production in Portugal and the headlines from Singapore.

Caravan: from New Zealand to London
How a team of Kiwis succeeded in creating one of London’s favourite restaurants and coffee brands. Plus: a new wave of Chinese street food and how to launch a great café.

The best of Venice
We’re in Venice to meet the shakers and makers of a culinary landscape that’s re-inventing itself.

Brae: putting Birregurra on the food map
How Australia’s Brae became one of the best restaurants in the southern hemisphere, fast food by top chefs in New York, plus how mezcal is taking over London.

Marcus Samuelsson
One of New York’s most famous chefs Marcus Samuelsson on how to create a restaurant that connects with the local community, why Kazakhstan is a wine country to keep an eye on, plus how…